OK, so i downloaded a visual style (dark tech) spent half and hour finding out how to do it found out i had to patch a .dll with a program got the program did it all was well, next day i come on Microsoft explorer is not responding *debug* *send error report* *don't*
i try debug keeps popping up i try don't or wateva and still pops up i tried deleting the visual style didn't work i couldn't find the thing i used to edit the .dll so i re downloaded it clicked restore still same problem.
im running windows xp home (sp3)
HELP ME!!! i wanna play steam!

ok background works it was just changed to blue but task bar still aint responding i cant get to control panel or anything



i now have to error things (same type)


now 3....

Can you post a screenshot of your desktop? Sounds like the uxtheme.dll file got buggered. You can set your theme back to the default Windows XP, or even Windows Classic, then restore your uxtheme.dll file from a backup. There should be one in C:\Windows\i386 if you have that folder...

uh no i don't have that folder :(
here's a pic
ive already deleted old theme and ive set back to normal but still yeh...

i found the i386 folder just how do i delete the current one? to replace it lol

ok i got it in now im gonna restart see if it fixes!

ok still same but now its the xp blue...

help? would it work if i got someone elses uxtheme.dll

just downloaded one off the net sp3 final i put that in (kept a backup) and gonna try it

ok still same....

anyone know how to fix it?

PLEASE HELP SOMEONE I REALLY NEED THIS FIXED.
its one of the many things pissing me off...

i followed the files in the error report i delete them and click dont send another folder full of the files gets created i think its cuasing the problem any idea how ot get rid of it?. the files called WER0a40.dir00
files are explorer.exe.mdmp and appcompat.txt

I don't know what you've done, but I had this happen to me once but was even worse - all my windows were black. I rebooted into safe mode and restored my uxtheme.dll from a backup. To find backups, you have to open Windows Explorer and go to Tools --> Folder Options and uncheck the 'show hidden' and 'protected operating system' options. Then search for uxtheme and you should find at lease one or two.

Any named uxtheme.dl_ are compressed. From the command line, extract via:

expand -R uxtheme.dl_

Then copy the extracted file to C:\Windows\System32.

Or, if you have System Restore enabled, why not just restore back to the day/time just before you tried patching your uxtheme.dll file? That should work.

Only other thing I can think of is get pre-patched uxtheme.dll file and copy it over. Remember you have to reboot.

There is one other possibility - your uxtheme.dll file is fine but you somehow messed up the shell files in C:\Windows\Resources\Themes, possibly by extracting a new theme in the root folder instead of it's own folder. I've seen that happen before...

i think thats it im gonna try that ive replaced uxtheme many times now and well i got heaps of them everywhere.... ive tried them all so hope this works and thanks if it does this will clear it up for others.

ok so i didnt do that ^ i did a system restore i can use start bar (for now) etc but i still got the error