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    Windows 7 Personalization

    Discussion in 'Alienware M11x' started by SaiSo, Mar 31, 2011.

  1. SaiSo

    SaiSo Newbie

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    Any way to change it?

    Can't save any changes in windows 7 personalization :(

    I messed with regedit went to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Themes

    changed themechanges... values to 0

    deleted the values in currenttheme, installtheme, lasthighcontrasttheme

    didn't seem to work at all

    If i did anything wrong could you please tell me how to fix it?

    thanks
     
    SaiSo, Mar 31, 2011
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  2. fwong09

    fwong09 Notebook Enthusiast

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    If you mean by the windows 7 login screen, here are the two sites I use to configure the images. Be aware that images have to be a certain size (I think below 256kb), However there were times when I just configured this yesterday (Cause I just reformated), that even some images that are under 256kb dont work. Try the included alienware images to make sure that they are working, then test out other images to see if they work.

    Windows 7 Lets you Change the Logon Background Image - The Winhelponline Blog

    How To Change The Windows 7 Logon Background
     
    fwong09, Mar 31, 2011
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  3. SaiSo

    SaiSo Newbie

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    No not the logon screen

    however i have figured out the problem...it seems that you can't alter the alienware theme as i was trying to do

    just selecting a preset windows 7 theme and changing that worked :D

    now im worried that the registry changes i made might affect my new m11x in a bad way :(
     
    SaiSo, Apr 1, 2011
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