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.
>
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> 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?
>
>
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