How To…

It’s now much easier to install themes with Windows 7 than any previous version of Windows. Simply download the file and extract the .theme file to:

C:\Windows\Resources\Themes

Then open up Personalization option in Control Panel and select your chosen theme.

If your theme contains additional modded files such as explorer.exe you will need to use either:
UX Style (Recomended) or
UX Patcher (Not Recomended).

Resources:

  UX Style (2.9 MiB, 397 hits)

  UniversalThemePatcher-x86 (72.4 KiB, 282 hits)

  UniversalThemePatcher-x64 (92.9 KiB, 340 hits)

Instructions for UniversalThemePatcher:

1. Can operate in normal mode. Do not need to enter safe mode.

2. Choose the corresponding patcher based on you Windows:
For 32bit(x86): UniversalThemePatcher-x86.exe
For 64bit(amd64): UniversalThemePatcher-x64.exe

3. Requires administrator rights. Right-click the exe file, select Run as Administrator.

4. Windows 7 6519 needs to patch 3 files: uxtheme.dll, themeui.dll, shsvcs.dll
Windows 7 6801 need to patch 3 files: uxtheme.dll, themeui.dll, themeservice.dll

Sometimes, in x64 Windows, you need to patch 2 copies of files:
using UniversalThemePatcher-x64.exe to patch the 64bit files in \windows\system32;
and using UniversalThemePatcher-x86.exe to patch the 32bit files in \windows\syswow64.

5. After installing the patch, Restart your computer.

6. You can run program with argument “-silent” to patch in silent mode.