Problem Patching uxtheme.dll

Ran Multipatcher 5.5 on my XP Pro setup and all seemed well but when I restored an image (that had the patched dll), Windows did not load the patched dll but put back the original unpatched uxtheme.dll.

Is there something I can do to remedy this so when I restore an image I won't have this happen and the patched dll will be in place. Thanks a lot.

Gary

 

Did you put a patched uxtheme.dll in %windir%\system32\dll cache?

If windows detects that uxtheme is patched, it will replace it with the one in dll cache (I'm pretty sure it will, anyway.)

 

I have not experienced that. Maybe Windows File Protection is restoring the old file?

See this page to learn about WFP and how to disable it (if you want to do that).

 

No, but I think I will try that and see if that works. Thanks a lot.

Gary

 

One more thing - keep a copy of my i386 folder containing XP on a separate partition on my primary hard drive. Could this also pose a problem with the uxtheme.dll being replaced from that location?

WSFuser,

I am glad you have not seen this problem but I wonder why. Wish I could get this sorted so i could use some nice themes and be confident restoring images that uxtheme.dll would not be reset. Thanks again.

Gary

 

Also, if the patch works correctly, does this change the modify date and/or size of uxtheme.dll? Thanks.

Gary

 

Had to use the manual method of changing the uxtheme.dll file but it works now. I restored the image that had the modified dll file just fine. Guess the Multipatcher program was not working on my laptop for osme reason. Thanks again for your help.

Gary

 

@huntnyc - the reason I dont have the problem is simple: I have SFC/WFP disabled.

However, Im glad you got your problem sorted.

 

Thanks for your response WSFuser. If I do have future problems, will think about disabling WFP.

Gary