One of my client are facing Windows Classic Theme is NOT applied to users, even with the following GPO setting configured and enforced
User Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Control Panel -> Personalization ->Force a specfic visual style file or force Windows Classic = Enabled (Empty)
Note: To select the Windows Classic visual style, leave the box blank beside "Path to Visual Style:" and enable this setting.
User logoff from the existing session and login again, they still do not get the Classic Theme applied, and users complaining that the default Windows 7 AERO theme are too bright and they are NOT comfortable with this theme
Solutions
We found ThemeSwitcher and we decided to prepare a login script to apply Windows Classics Theme with the following steps
- Download and extract ThemeSwitcher to c:\Theme in Server
- Copy Classic.theme from C:\Windows\Resources\Ease of Access Themes to c:\Theme
- Share the C:\Theme folder
- Prepare a logon.bat script as below and assign to User
@echo off
net use j: \\10.1.13.13\Theme
j:
ThemeSwitcher.exe Classic
With Windows Classics theme applied, users can see their desktop more clearer now