{"id":104,"date":"2009-06-10T17:01:20","date_gmt":"2009-06-10T21:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.compdigitec.com\/labs\/?p=104"},"modified":"2009-06-10T17:01:20","modified_gmt":"2009-06-10T21:01:20","slug":"uxtheme-patches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.compdigitec.com\/labs\/2009\/06\/10\/uxtheme-patches\/","title":{"rendered":"UXTheme patches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In order to discourage use of non-standard themes for Windows that are not from Microsoft, the Windows <strong>uxtheme.dll<\/strong> has been designed to check for a digital signature that had to be signed by Microsoft. This creates a problem because many people may not like all the themes that were created by Microsoft or shipped with Microsoft. Microsoft has even <a href=\"http:\/\/www.neowin.net\/index.php?act=view&amp;id=31747\">attempted to sue people<\/a> for making custom themes. To counter this, there is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.withinwindows.com\/uxtheme-patches\/\">a collection of UxTheme patches<\/a> available on the Internet to use.<\/p>\n<p>To use it, you need to &#8220;unlock&#8221; the uxtheme.dll. It is found in <strong>%SYSTEMROOT%\\system32\\uxtheme.dll<\/strong>. After unlocking, you can replace the file with the patched version (with the right OS version as well).<\/p>\n<p>If you found this article helpful or useful, please help Compdigitec spread the word. Don\u2019t forget to <a title=\"Subscribe to Compdigitec Labs\" href=\"\/labs\/feed\/\">subscribe to Compdigitec Labs<\/a> for more useful and interesting articles!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In order to discourage use of non-standard themes for Windows that are not from Microsoft, the Windows uxtheme.dll has been designed to check for a digital signature that had to be signed by Microsoft. This creates a problem because many people may not like all the themes that were created by Microsoft or shipped with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[158,500,503,499,501,502],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.compdigitec.com\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.compdigitec.com\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.compdigitec.com\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.compdigitec.com\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.compdigitec.com\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.compdigitec.com\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.compdigitec.com\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.compdigitec.com\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.compdigitec.com\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}