How do I install these themes?

Question

My computer at work had all these fun and cool looking themes for xp so i did a system search for the .theme files and found that they were in C:>>Windows>>Resources>>Themes, I then copied the whole "Resources" folder onto my laptop. Replacing it's old "Resources" folder. During the copying I got an alert that it couldn't copy one particular styleshell.dll file or user icon because it was already in use. I thought nothing of it and continued the transfer. When completed I tried to restart my machine and loa my themes... the themes I already had work but all the new ones do not. I have all the wallpapers and icons that go with tthe themes but the windows and start bar do not change. If anything they revert to the oldschool windows look. I've been messing with this for a while now and I'm stumped. If someone could please tell me what I've done wrong and how to correctly do this... I'd be greatful. It's not even a big deal but now it's just bugging me.

Answer 1

Assuming they are .msstyles themes u need to hack the uxtheme.dll file ans restart pc so they work.....

http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/OS-Enhancements/UXTheme-MultiPatcher.shtml

then find the individual theme styles and open them up....

hope these are what u mean.