We here at AskVG post lots of cool themes for Windows and other software regularly. Windows themes can be found in following exclusive themes sections:
Many times people don't like a downloaded theme and they want to completely uninstall and remove the theme from their systems. Although its not a difficult task but many times people don't have an idea about how to do this?
We receive so many comments in theme articles and receive many emails asking the same question, how to uninstall the theme?
Actually many themes come with automatic installer like our SevenVG, AeroVG themes and the installer copies the theme files automatically so users don't know where are the theme files getting installed.
So today in this simple and easy to follow tutorial, we are going to tell you how to completely uninstall and remove a custom 3rd party theme from Windows:
1. First you should apply default Windows theme using Desktop Properties. Just right-click on Desktop and select Properties (Windows XP) or Personalize (Windows Vista and 7) option. It'll open a new window where you can apply default theme.
Now you'll get default look-n-feel in your Windows but if you also want to permanently remove the theme from your system, you'll also need to delete the theme files.
2. Open My Computer and go to following folder:
C:\Windows\Resources\Themes\
Note: Here C: is your system drive where Windows is installed in your computer system. If Windows is installed in any other drive in your system, replace C: with the correct drive letter.
Alternatively, you can also type following in RUN or Start Menu search box and press Enter:
%windir%\resources\themes\
It'll open the same folder directly.
3. Now look for a folder and .theme file having the name of the theme which you downloaded. For example, if you installed our AeroVG Se7en theme in Windows 7, you'll get a folder "AeroVG Se7en RTM" and a file "AeroVG Se7en RTM.theme" in Themes folder.
Select the folder and .theme file and delete them.
4. That's it. After deleting them, you'll get rid of the 3rd party theme completely and it'll not appear in Desktop Properties window.
We hope it'll help people in easily uninstalling custom themes in Windows.
This article was posted by VG in following section: Windows 7, Windows 7 Themes, Windows Vista, Windows Vista Themes, Windows XP, Windows XP Themes.
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Sam
thnx VG. Very helpful
GhK
Did not know about the second step. Thanks for sharing :)
SCBright
Sometimes the third party themes may change some system files, an additional step would be to restore these files.
If you have a backup of the system files everything will be ok, otherwise... good luck!
seahorsepip
if modded systemfiles when not having a backup you can do just sfc /SCANNOW....
Mike
handy info...I'm surprised there isn't a little program to do this for you....
you have handy little programs that do everything else around here...:)
SCBright
@seahorsepip
Good tip! I forgot to mention it.
To work you need to run sfc/scannow in an elevated command prompt.
NSDCars5
Oh, I thought it was obvious, that if you install a theme by copying its files into the Themes folder, the you remove the files after changing the theme to remove the theme
VG
^^ Many times themes come with automatic installer like our SevenVG, AeroVG themes and users don't know where the theme files are getting installed. :)
Nom
How do i remove a custom boot screen? I installed the android theme from here, and after uninstalling it every thing goes except the bootscreen.
VG
^^ Which Windows are you using?