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Themes wont work. Error!

Hi every one.  I am trying to use themes in windows 98.  I installed them using add/remove programs of the win98 cd.  I was able to get it to install Ok and initially set up the science theme.  Now I want to change it and get an error message every time I press apply or OK, this is the error I have been getting.

"this program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down. If the problem persists contact the program vendor"

Then this from the details button:
THEMES caused an invalid page fault in
module <unknown> at 0000:005302f4.
Registers:
EAX=ffffffff CS=015f EIP=005302f4 EFLGS=00010202
EBX=00000190 SS=0167 ESP=0064f0c0 EBP=00000782
ECX=00000000 DS=0167 ESI=bff772fc FS=3697
EDX=81a9200c ES=0167 EDI=bff5581c GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Stack dump:
00000782 bff5581c bff772fc 00000190 00409792 00410af0 0064f9f4 0064f9dc 000004a8 0064fa26 0064f128 0000000b 00000000 00000000 bff548c6 00000c09

Has any one else encountered this?  if so how do I fix it.

All help appreciated.
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Ok.  Will let you know as soon as I am able to get back to that computer.

Thanks.
Okay Leisha!
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Ok, I am downloading all the new themes as suggested.  

the registry key you listed could not be found using the find function in regedit.  I assume it is not there.  I also attempted to find just the last part of the key, but to this stage no luck.

I assume it does not exist in my registry.  I will let you know how it goes with the down load of the themes.  So far I still have an hour to go!

Okay Leisha, as long as you looked and that key is not there, than that's a good start.
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Well thank you very much.  Themes now work.  As well, I have four lovely new themes I did not have in the past.

The down load of themes from the windows update site was a very good solution to this problem.

Does it work with win95 too?  I have a win95 computer showing a similar problem.

Thanks again. *S*
I believe there are some for Windows 95 *S*, but I haven't worked with that OS in months. I believe that MS has a download site for updates to Windows 95 and Office that may have something.