Disable Themes in TweakXP

Captain Stiffie · Jan 20, 2005, 05:11 PM

I know it doesnt look the best but I have used windows alot before XP came along so i can stand it. I want to disable themes in XP with tweakXP to free up resources. When I click disable nothing happens. Automatic is still highlighted with a check mark. When I restart my computer I don't know if it was tweak because I changed it manually also. But the processes still look about the same. Was wondering how to get that to work. Thanx

**Spike** · Jan 20, 2005, 05:20 PM

You can disable it manual. Goto run and type services.msc than look for themes and right mouse click on it and select properties and then disable.

pr0digal jenius · Jan 20, 2005, 05:51 PM

what he said^

and just to be on the safe side, boot into safe mode and do that under the admin account

PangingJr · Jan 20, 2005, 08:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Spike

You can disable it manual. Goto run and type services.msc than look for themes and right mouse click on it and select properties and then disable.

what he said^

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by checking those running Processes in the built-in Task Manager you cannot tell whether or not the Themes service is stopped or disabled.

the Themes service is registered under one of the process named "svchost.exe".

the process name svchost.exe is a system process belonging to the Windows OS which handles processes executed from DLLs. more than one Service can be registered under this process.

When changing the Windows Services's Status (started or stopped) and Startup type (disabled or manual or automatic) You should consider using the Services applet,
while you're in the applet you can/will learn a thing or two about Windows Services. just be careful when messing around in the applet and not to disable or to stop any service that you're not sure nor don't know about it.