I am building a customized Win7 pe for work, and all is going well on the build, but a minor detail is driving me insane and I was hoping I could get some insight.
::Everything from here down to the most recent update is probably irrelevant now, as I have worked my way into a new stage of the issue that I am having. The most recent update will probably be info enough, but I'll leave the rest of the post in case anyone wants a bit more background on the situation::
I have the .wim file that I've been working on, using DISM to mount and edit the files, and an offline reg editor to make some minor tweaks that I was looking to do. Everything is saving properly to the registry when I commit changes to the .wim file, so it is definitely not that I cannot edit the reg of the pe (as many people claim). My issue comes in where I cannot seem to enable themes or aero (I think both need to be on for what I am trying to do). I do not care if themes can be changed once the pe is loaded, just want to have a customized taskbar corloring with the orb instead of the start button. This isn't a pe that I would be making public (not planning to anyway), just for use by me in my repair shop and I would like it to look fantastic. Right now I am stuck with the "classic" start bar and can only use the classic and hi-contrast themes. I have added the 11 files required for themes to run in a pe environment, customized the computer name to no longer be minint[serial number], and changed the background, but still cannot enable the custom explorer.exe to show properly.
The start button is actually a button that says "Start" instead of the orb, and the taskbar is grey. I would like the orb and a customized color scheme for the taskbar in my bootable environment. Does anyone know how to tweak this? I have been googling for about 2 days with no luck, so if anyone can help me I would much appreciate it. Thanks in advance to anyone with some insight on this.
Update: Apparently I had overlooked one major detail... the themes service wasn't installed. I have added that service to the registry (already had the files in there, just forgot to add the service to the reg) and now it shows in services.msc and is listed as automatic. Still a few bugs though; the service does not automatically start, but it does start when I manually start it, and the other issue is that this has made absolutely no change to my theme options (Still stuck with classic theme)
Another Update: I can now get the basic theme to load, but I have to start the Themes service manually and then restart explorer.exe. Could anyone have any suggestions as to what may stop the themes service from starting automatically?
::Everything from here down to the most recent update is probably irrelevant now, as I have worked my way into a new stage of the issue that I am having. The most recent update will probably be info enough, but I'll leave the rest of the post in case anyone wants a bit more background on the situation::
I have the .wim file that I've been working on, using DISM to mount and edit the files, and an offline reg editor to make some minor tweaks that I was looking to do. Everything is saving properly to the registry when I commit changes to the .wim file, so it is definitely not that I cannot edit the reg of the pe (as many people claim). My issue comes in where I cannot seem to enable themes or aero (I think both need to be on for what I am trying to do). I do not care if themes can be changed once the pe is loaded, just want to have a customized taskbar corloring with the orb instead of the start button. This isn't a pe that I would be making public (not planning to anyway), just for use by me in my repair shop and I would like it to look fantastic. Right now I am stuck with the "classic" start bar and can only use the classic and hi-contrast themes. I have added the 11 files required for themes to run in a pe environment, customized the computer name to no longer be minint[serial number], and changed the background, but still cannot enable the custom explorer.exe to show properly.
The start button is actually a button that says "Start" instead of the orb, and the taskbar is grey. I would like the orb and a customized color scheme for the taskbar in my bootable environment. Does anyone know how to tweak this? I have been googling for about 2 days with no luck, so if anyone can help me I would much appreciate it. Thanks in advance to anyone with some insight on this.
Update: Apparently I had overlooked one major detail... the themes service wasn't installed. I have added that service to the registry (already had the files in there, just forgot to add the service to the reg) and now it shows in services.msc and is listed as automatic. Still a few bugs though; the service does not automatically start, but it does start when I manually start it, and the other issue is that this has made absolutely no change to my theme options (Still stuck with classic theme)
Another Update: I can now get the basic theme to load, but I have to start the Themes service manually and then restart explorer.exe. Could anyone have any suggestions as to what may stop the themes service from starting automatically?