(Tutorial written out of personal experience)

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To change your windows vista theme from windows vista aero or similar theme, you will need to change some system files. Afterwards, you simply paste the appropriate files into the appropriate folder.

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Step 1: Taking Ownership of 3 files
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To patch the files, you must take ownership of the following files:
-uxtheme.dll
-themeui.dll
-shsvcs.dll

The files are located in C:\WINDOWS\System32

To take ownership, follow the instructions on this site

Step 2: Patching the files:
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Backup the files that you took permission of. Then copy and paste the files located here (after extracting) into the original folder.

Step 3: Adding your themes
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Now, go online and download some themes. Note that themes must have a .there extension. Put your themes into C:\WINDOWS\Resources\Themes. Here is a good place to start looking for themes.

Here is an example of what the Themes folder can look like:

Email me if you have any questions. Note: my theme is called Glass Glow. I got it from the link given in part 3.