Leopard theme permanent?

What did you use to apply the Leopard skin?

I'm guessing it was that garbage installer "Total Conversion" thing. I've seen a lot of people having issues with uninstalling it. Your best bet is to try a System Restore prior to installing the pack.

I was thinking the same thing...some kind of transformation pack, flyakite...etc, I'd never put those things on my system.

I used some installer that someone had on deviant art. I think I may just back up all the files I want on an external HDD and do a factory system restore as I have never made a restore disc. I'm gonna go out on a limb here so this may sound stupid but even though it's just a restore disc, will it still back up all of my other saved data? Or is a restore disc just for the OS and I'll have to backup on other drives? May sound stupid but I've never done one before.

Andrew

PS - Thanks for replying so fast.

I would back up as many applications/files as possible, it may very well wipe everything so you'll be starting over again.

A factory restore will do just that, it will format the harddrive and restore the machine back to how it was when you first bought it. As Asty said, backup all of your stuff, do the restore, and put everything back on, reinstall your programs, etc.

I wonder if IconPackager would fix it? I would try the trial version and see if you can change them.

How am I going to back up my applications and programs? Aren't there a lot of sub files and stuff that I need to make them run?

No....you're going to have to reinstall them all. Save all the installers (exe's), gather your discs, you'll have to install them that way. Simply backing up the program file folders won't work.

Okay thanks for the answer. IconPackager didn't work either. And one more question, making a restore disk only restores the OS right? Or does save everything on my HDD?

Andrew

I'm not too familiar with it, I've always done home built. But...if you make a recovery disc through the built-in recovery thing it *might* backup everything on the harddrive (a ghost image), but just in case...backup all your stuff manually. You'll thank yourself later if the recovery disc doesn't save it all.

If you have never made a restore disk how are you gonna restore?

They usually have a recovery partition...my HP laptop does, but I made a recovery disc as well.

I'm almost positive my computer came with a restore disk as well.

This is another reason why people use WindowBlinds. It's SAFE. 

Whenever someone offers you a way to "skin" Windows with claims of it being "native" or involves patching (in memory or on disk) this is the sort of stuff that happens.

No joke. I don't trust ANYTHING that comes with an .exe from dA, that's just crazy talk.

A System Restore and a System Recovery are two separate actions. A recovery reformats and re-installs all originally installed programs. (And can be done on an HP from the boot menu without a disc. "F11" - if you haven't deleted the partition) and you must re-load your backed up data. A restore rolls back your system to a prior point in time. You will only lose anything saved after that restore point.Check your help and support section for more details. (Not that I'm advocating reading the instructions)     I have Vista and it's saved my ass twice, without dumping everything and starting over. I should add that Windows will use 15% of your HDD to save restore points after which it will overwrite the oldest one,so restore won't help you if your last known "good" one has been overwritten. Note: That adds up to 30Gb on a 200Gb HDD .Disk clean-up will let you delete all but the most recent restore point to regain the storage space IF you don't need them any longer. I have seen two HP laptops that had restore de-activated, probably to conserve drive space but I'll be leaving mine on for "stupid" insurance.    Good Luck!

As Wizard stated use the "System Restore" built into XP or if using Vista. This is a great deal easier then going through the Recovery process. You can do this in XP by going to your start menu then click on "Administrative Tools" and choose "System Restore". Hopefully you will be able to go back to the point where you installed the Leopard Skin. If not you will have no choice but to use the Recovery process.

If you are using Vista then press"Windows Key + Pause Key. This will bring up The System window, then press "Advanced system settings"; after that click on the System Protection tab on the system Properties window then click on System Restore. Again if the restore date is to old it may not come up, thus as in XP you will have to us the Recovery Process.

Maybe someone else will come up with something.

Good Luck - Lee

So does a system restore make a ghost image of all your data?

No, all a system restore does is change the system files back to a previous version. A system recovery would format the harddrive.

Tell you what; back up all your important files, music, pictures, doc, excel files and any thing elso you want to keep. Once that is done forget about doing an image (if you haven't already made a backup image doing one now what be usless) because you would only be making an image of the problem.

Then restore you computer back to the original store bought system. In other words start all over again.

Again Good Luck

Ha, exactly. Surprised no one mentioned that sooner.