I’m assuming you are running windows 7 or vista and have installed vistaglazz 1, 1.5, or 2, and are encountering issues on reboot. Such as the system never finishing booting up, constantly rebooting, and so on are the subject of this post. Since you can’t log in to fix the files without running vistaglazz, and you can’t do that in safe mode, your only solution is to manually replace the files. Fortunantly, vistaglazz uses a tried and true copy-backup-replace-original method to updating the binaries that it modifies in windows.
Step One: Open safe mode, or another OS, and navigate to the Windows/System32 folder of your broken installation.
Step Two: Find the files marked
C:\Windows\System32\shsvcs.dll.vgorg
C:\Windows\System32\themeui.dll.vgorg
C:\Windows\System32\uxtheme.dll.vgorg
or similar extensions and dll’s.
Delete the original dlls, remove the .vgorg extension from the DLL’s, and reboot. Your windows installation will be as good as new.
The recommended tried and true patch for enabling custom themes on windows 7, vista, xp, and any and all other windows operating systems is the UXtheme styler located at http://www.uxstyle.com/
No more manual patches or dll replacements needed, this program will install a simple windows service to keep all needed binary blobs updated with the exact bits needed to enable custom themes.
