A "Themes" Bug in Windows Vista Ultimate?

I purchased the Vista 32-bit Ultimate and may have found a bug while trying
to create my own theme since Microsoft decided not to have a PLUS! pack this
time around.
What I discovered is that when I go into PERSONALIZE and CHANGE DESKTOP
ICONS and add my own icons to MY COMPUTER and NETWORK and save the theme, the
icons do not register in the theme file. In fact, if you have another theme
and change from one to another, the NETWORK icon will not change at all but
remain as the icon set up previously. This is also sometime true for MY
COMPUTER icon.
I loaded PLUS! for Windows XP as a test and it loaded just fine.
The themes would install except the NETWORK ICON would not change between
themes, just like before on my custom themes. I can manually change the
NETWORK icon to the correct PLUS! icon and resave the theme as some other
name. But if i go to reload that new theme, the NETWORK does not change.

The icon resources for some of the new icons are in different places than
they were in XP so an XP pack will not change things for Vista necessarily.

That could also be the issue with the "themes" you're trying to create
yourself.


"trichar123" <> wrote in message
news:28BAFD4B-A528-4217-A063-...
>I purchased the Vista 32-bit Ultimate and may have found a bug while trying
> to create my own theme since Microsoft decided not to have a PLUS! pack
> this
> time around.
> What I discovered is that when I go into PERSONALIZE and CHANGE DESKTOP
> ICONS and add my own icons to MY COMPUTER and NETWORK and save the theme,
> the
> icons do not register in the theme file. In fact, if you have another
> theme
> and change from one to another, the NETWORK icon will not change at all
> but
> remain as the icon set up previously. This is also sometime true for MY
> COMPUTER icon.
> I loaded PLUS! for Windows XP as a test and it loaded just fine.
> The themes would install except the NETWORK ICON would not change between
> themes, just like before on my custom themes. I can manually change the
> NETWORK icon to the correct PLUS! icon and resave the theme as some other
> name. But if i go to reload that new theme, the NETWORK does not change.
>
>
>

I do not think that is the case here, since I am not using plus! pack. I am
"manually" changing the icon(s) and saving them as a new theme. But when I
go, let's say back to Windows Aero Theme, then all but the NETWORK icon
changes to the new theme. Then when I "manually" restore default icons on
the aero theme and then try to go back to my new theme, all BUT the NETWORK
icon changes. This is the "BUG" I want to report.

"Shane Nokes" wrote:

> The icon resources for some of the new icons are in different places than
> they were in XP so an XP pack will not change things for Vista necessarily.
>
> That could also be the issue with the "themes" you're trying to create
> yourself.
>
>
> "trichar123" <> wrote in message
> news:28BAFD4B-A528-4217-A063-...
> >I purchased the Vista 32-bit Ultimate and may have found a bug while trying
> > to create my own theme since Microsoft decided not to have a PLUS! pack
> > this
> > time around.
> > What I discovered is that when I go into PERSONALIZE and CHANGE DESKTOP
> > ICONS and add my own icons to MY COMPUTER and NETWORK and save the theme,
> > the
> > icons do not register in the theme file. In fact, if you have another
> > theme
> > and change from one to another, the NETWORK icon will not change at all
> > but
> > remain as the icon set up previously. This is also sometime true for MY
> > COMPUTER icon.
> > I loaded PLUS! for Windows XP as a test and it loaded just fine.
> > The themes would install except the NETWORK ICON would not change between
> > themes, just like before on my custom themes. I can manually change the
> > NETWORK icon to the correct PLUS! icon and resave the theme as some other
> > name. But if i go to reload that new theme, the NETWORK does not change.
> >
> >
> >
>

Hello? I was wondering if anyone has attempted to try to see if the NETWORK
icon has a problem when changing themes using Personalized/Themes after
creating a theme and then changing over to the Default Windows Aero theme
then back to Modified Theme?