Geoffrey Emery
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Unlock Hidden Themes In Windows 7

January 23, 2009 08:38 by gemery

Did you know there are hidden windows 7 themes already on your W7 box? Check out to get them below.

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To Unlock the hidden themes in windows 7, do the following:

1. Open Windows Explorer
2. Click Organize, and select Folder and Search Options.
3. Go to View tab.
4. Select Show hidden files, folders and drivers and uncheck Hide protected operating system files (Recommended). If prompted with confirmation, click Yes.
5. Click OK.
6. Browse to the following folder:
\Windows\Globalization\MCT\
7. There are five folders in the name with format MCT-XX (where XX is AU, CA, GB, US, or ZA) which represents globalization settings for each region. Go into the folder that you want to activate its theme.
Note: AU, CA and ZA regions have the same themes.
8. Open the Theme folder inside the selected region folder.
9. Double click on the XX.theme file to apply the theme to the Windows 7 desktop system. Once a theme is ran and activated, the theme will be remembered and saved into Personalization options, so that user can change or select the theme again directly from Personalization settings screen.
10. Now to go to Folder Options to reverse the first 5 steps to hide the hidden and protected system files and folders again.

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August 19. 2009 01:48

vaibhav

I am using windows 7 ultimate beta version. i have follow your steps for unlock themes, but when i double click on the icon of theme the error becomes " This version of windows does supports themes ". now what can ido for unlock theme.... please help me

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