How to Include Custom Themes in Windows XP, MCE or 2003 Setup?
If you are a Windows XP, MCE or 2003 user and use 3rd party themes like VistaVG in your Windows, then many times you might have wondered how to include these themes in Windows setup so that it can install and apply itself whenever you install Windows. Now no longer wondering or wait. Just follow these simple steps and you’ll be able to include your desired themes in Windows setup: 1. Copy your Windows Setup from CD to your hard disk. 2. Suppose you copied the whole setup to D:\Setup folder. Now open Setup folder. 3. You’ll see a few folders like I386, etc. Now create a new folder $OEM$ 4. Open $OEM$ folder and create another new folder $$ 5. Open $$ folder and create another new folder Resources 6. Open Resources folder and create another new folder Themes 7. So the final path will be: D:\Setup\$OEM$\$$\Resources\Themes 8. Now copy your desired theme’s folder and .theme file from %windir%\Resources\Themes folder and paste into the new “Themes” folder which you created earlier. 9. Now g