Hello I am trying to get third party visual styles working properly on server 2008. Now to some of you that sounds odd - I am a degree student specialising in networking and so I have installed server 2008 on one of my hardrives, and I saw a guide on how to get it working almost identical to vista as a workstation.However, for some reason, it just will not let me use third party visual styles. I have the aero theme working perfectly by the way.Replacing the three theme related dll's in root/windows/system32 seems to have no effect (the three files are themeui.dll, shcvs.dll or something similar and uxtheme.dll. Opening the visual style presents me with no option to change to that vs (as it does in vista).TuneUp Styler works, but produces literally loads and loads of dwm.exe crashes, sometimes disabling it completely until i reboot the machine.An application called Vistaglazz was recommended to me, but that seems to cause all sorts of problems so i didn't want to use it.Has anyone else set up server 2008 like I have for a user account and managed to get third party visual styles working?

Hello, I suspect that this current problem is caused by the compatibility issues of the third-party themes with Windows Server 2008. I recommend you download the third-party themes for Windows Server 2008 for tests. If you couldnt find one, please try with the third-party themes which work well on Vista first. Moreover, to use third-party themes on Windows Server 2008, you need to go to the Server Manager and install the Desktop Experience first. After the reboot, you need to enable Themes service on Windows Server 2008. The following article tells you how to enable Windows Vista experience features on Windows Server 2008 which might be helpful to you. How to enable Windows Vista user experience features on a computer that is running Windows Server 2008 http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;947036 Thanks. Regards, Neo Zhu