I second disabling the Themes service using a specific GPO for that. On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 6:09 PM, Mike Gill <[email protected]> wrote: > Disable the Themes service altogether. You'll get the Classic desktop. > > -- > Mike Gill > > -----Original Message----- > From: Craig Gauss [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 8:28 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Setting Windows theme by the registry? > > We recently found out one of our applications does not work well with > anything besides the Windows Classic theme. Of course users love to go > in and change everything they possibly can so the decision has been made > to lock the themes down. I found the registry key to disable the tab > but not sure on the registry key to set it to Windows Classic. > > After Googling for a bit I found it is in the following key, > software/microsoft/windows/currentversion/ThemeManager, but I didnt see > anywhere with the specific themes documented as to what value they need > to be. > > Any ideas? > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ >
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