Problems with installing desktopx theme

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i know this is really a n00b question but i can't seem to figure it out... when i download some themes they come in a desktopx file and other ones are just a bunch of different files that can't be loaded into desktopx (from my knowledge anyways) please help me... thank you
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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Can you give me an example of a DesktopX-theme which just is a 'bundle of files'?. I assume that they were in a zip-file when you downloaded them?

Try and rename the zip-extension to .desktop and then double-click on the theme.

To see the file extensions open Windows Explorer > Tools > Folder Options > View > and untick 'hide extensions for known file types'

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Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Here's 2 very good articles about skins, themes, extensions of files and installing

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Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top
here's a link to the skin i want to install

https://www.wincustomize.com/download.aspx?LibID=31&SkinID=1822

and i tried to rename it but it din't work
Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Ok, Aqua_Winna5 is a rather old desktop theme and does not seem to be compatible with the new version of DesktopX. I downloaded the theme and manually copied the .dxtheme files into the DesktopX\Themes folder and then loaded the theme through 'Load Desktop' from within DesktopX.

However, the theme did not load correctly and caused an error leading to DesktopX crashing. I don't know wether the same thing will happen on your computer.

As a rule of thumb, expect that any theme that has the extension .dxtheme rather than .desktop was made for DesktopX version 2 or earlier and might not work with DesktopX 3.

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