How to use Third Party Themes on XP

Introduction
You will find many third party themes on the internet, but they wont work on your windows xp. If you want those cool third party themes to work, You must download a tool called UX theme patcher. (google it and find the one which suits your windows service pack).

UX Theme Patcher
UxTheme Multi Patcher is a very nice little utility that will patch your Windows XP so that you will be able to use 3rd Party Msstyle themes without requiring any additional software. This utility does a simple little trick by patching the uxtheme.dll file which is responsible for changing your Windows styles.


Download Links
http://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/140707-uxtheme-multi-patchers/
http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/OS-Enhancements/UXTheme-MultiPatcher.shtml
http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/OS-Enhancements/SP3-UxTheme-Patcher.shtml

Third Party Themes
You can find many third party themes and visual styles by googling for it. Some sites for visual styles are www.themexp.org, www.deviantart.com.

Using Third Party Themes
1. Download Ux theme patcher. Run it and patch your windows.
2. Download themes.
3. Open theme files and run them, They must be working fine now. Enjoy.