No Aero after installing Blue Progress bar.. Help !

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  1. Bluescreen

    Bluescreen MDL Senior Member

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    Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 installed on my PC, I tried to install Blue Progress Bar. Installation went ok, but even after reboot I am unable to get Aero working now after restoring my Aero theme.

    No error message during installation, and I replaced aero.msstyles manually into aero's folder.
    Can it be an SP1 problem as aero.msstyles has not the same size and date than the original one. ?
    Blue progress bar aero.msstyles is dated 5/08/2009 and 1195.520 bytes long.

    Your help will be very appreciated :)
     
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  2. steven4554

    steven4554 MDL Expert

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    #2 steven4554, Mar 26, 2012
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  3. Bluescreen

    Bluescreen MDL Senior Member

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    Tanks you steven4554,
    The rar achive of the "Blue Progressbar" already contain the two versions of UxStyle Core (x86 and x64).
    I have followed carefully the readme, but unfortunately when choosing my aero theme, it won"t load aero. I keep the basic theme (not wallpaper) I put just for installation.

    I made a restore point before, tried again but no luck .. I must say I am lost .. :(
     
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    @acrsn

    Small mistake; it should be chkdsk ;)
     
  6. Bluescreen

    Bluescreen MDL Senior Member

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    #6 Bluescreen, Mar 26, 2012
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    Hopefully I have a full image of my partition, so I will restore it without messing with repairing Windows :)
    I just downloaded Universal Theme Patcher, I will try it now.

    Edit : No way to get it working with aero. I still keep basic ... :(
    I think something into the aero.msstyles file replaced does not match the updated file previously into the Aero folder.
    The original file is dated 21-11-2010 and 1171,088 bytes long. (Maybe SP1 ?)
    The patched file is date 5-08-2009 and 1195,520 bytes long.
     
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  7. Bluescreen

    Bluescreen MDL Senior Member

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    I finally get it to work.. With a lot of patience ...

    I had to re-install UxStyle Core x64 AFTER disabling my Antivirus (Avast) Something was silently blocked.
    I patched themes using the Unviversal Theme Patcher (Thanks Tito) and installed the aero.msstyles manually.
    After reboot the I was able to re-enable the Aero. :)
     
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  8. PhaseDoubt

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    All this to replace green with blue. Suddenly I really like green