How to design and apply a theme - Abdelrhman-AK/WinPaletter GitHub Wiki

1. Initiation

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If you want to design a theme from init, press on one button from these

Button Function
alt text Create new theme file from current registry preferences
alt text Create new theme file from default Windows preferences

2. Target OS Preview

Make sure that you are previewing the target OS

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3. Main Windows colors structure editing

Change colors and edit the toggles as you want

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4. Other Windows aspects

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Click on buttons you want in the lower part of the form

Button Function
alt text LogonUI screen
alt text Classic Colors
alt text Cursors
alt text Consoles and Windows Terminal
alt text Metric and Fonts
alt text Wallpaper
alt text Windows Effects
alt text Windows Switcher (Alt+Tab appearance)
alt text Screen Saver
alt text Sounds
alt text WinPaletter application theme

5. Optional For multiple Windows versions

If you want to design one theme file valid for multiple versions of Windows, change the preview and repeat step 3, step 4: LogonUI screen and step 4: wallpaper

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6. Edit theme info

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Press on this button

Button Function
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7. Optional Save theme file

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Press on save or save as button, so that you can re-apply this theme later or even share it

Button Function
alt text Save current preferences to a WinPaletter theme file
alt text Save current preferences as a WinPaletter theme file (Save as ...)

8. Press on Apply button

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9. Optional but recommended Press on Logoff

And this is to apply remaining effects on system

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