Tuesday, March 1, 2011

How to enable hidden themes in windows 7

Windows 7 , by default has only few themes available for customization. People who are not satisfied with it can add few
more themes , which are hidden and can be enabled . These themes are available for certain regional countries like:
Australia
United kingdom
Canada
South Africa

Simple steps to enable hidden themes in Windows 7 :


=> Open windows explorer .

=> Click organize and go to folder and search option .

=> From View tab above ,check on “show hidden files and folder” and uncheck “hide protected operating system files” and  apply the changes.

=> Now search and  browse to the folder: Windows\Globalization\MCT

=> You will get five folder with name: MCT-AU,MCT-US,MCT-ZA,MCT-CA,MCT-GB , which represent globalization setting for each region .

=> Go to theme folder , which is inside every folder mentioned above and double click on **.theme (** – AU/US /ZA / CA/GB)   file to execute and  activate the theme .Once activated it automatically gets saved and available in the personalization  settings ,so that user can select  this theme later directly from personalization settings.

=> Go back to folder option to check “hide protected operating system files and folder ” option .It is recommended.

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