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02-26-2007, 07:30 AM
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| Lost GUI I can't boot into a gui now because I made a mistake following directions on modifying themes. I renamed the three files necessary for theming Vista *before* unpacking the rar archive with the replacement files. I don't know whether to laugh or cry.  Anyway, what's the best way to fix this without messing up my various other tweaks, such as services I've disabled, etc? I don't want to re-install. Can I reach the System Restore from a command line? And how do I get to the command line in this case? .. Help will be greatly appreciated.  -- Jerry |
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02-26-2007, 08:25 AM
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| At boot, press f8... they will give you all the options you need... I presume you know where your files are and how to restore them? crabby |
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02-26-2007, 09:45 AM
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did was rename them to uxtheme.old, etc, replacing the dll extension with old. There are three of them and I can't remember the exact names of the other two, but I was going to do a search in that folder for ".old" files, then I'd spot them and just rename them back. Do I need to have my Vista installation disk in to do this? -- Jerry | |
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02-26-2007, 10:48 AM
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| Lost GUI [RESOLVED]  I did it.. going into the command interface andtyping "help" brought me a list of commands to use to find and correct the file names. Everything is back to normal now. Thanks for responding, Crabby. -- Jerry |
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02-26-2007, 11:53 AM
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| System Restore from command line: rstrui.exe /offline:C:\windows
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02-26-2007, 11:59 AM
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Here's hoping I'll never have to use that. | |
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