We here at AskVG post lots of cool themes for Windows and other software regularly. Windows themes can be found in our exclusive Themes and Wallpapers section.
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.
Posted by: Vishal Gupta | Categories: Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP
Ichsan
so we don't need to restore it?
bon2x
thanks,, , nice share.
Rakeshrky
Hi VG, is there any way to remove the default theme of win 7.
VG
^^ If you are talking about Aero theme, you can replace it with any of your desired 3rd party theme. Just give that theme the same name. But in future if Windows overwrites dll files which you patched to allow 3rd party theme, you'll get a messy UI.
John
It worked! I uninstalled all the incompatible themes on my computer.
rap
i cant delete it it seys i do not have you need permmission to perform this action
rap
now i cant delet it it seys its in use
VG
^^ Apply a different theme and restart your computer. After restart you'll be able to delete theme files.
sai
Im using windows 7..
but even after uninstalling and deleting the theme files(Glass skin pack) from the system, the icons and boot screen remain to be the same!!
how to recover my default windows 7 theme?
sai
@VG
please give me sme suggestions of how to restore the old icons and boot screen of my system tat runs on Windows7!!
VG
^^ You can use sfc command as mentioned in method 4 of following tutorial:
http://www.askvg.com/how-to-remove-or-uninstall-3rd-party-transformation-packs-in-windows/
nicklas
my wont work! I have downloaded the windows 8 theme for my windows 7 and still the windows 8 start icon i buttom left corner appears and some other features like the navi' buttons.....!!! how do i get rid of them. please help me
harry
it says i dont have permission