A while ago, I put up an Alienware Windows 10 Theme tutorial. This is the red version of the same theme.
– It Came from Outer Space to Take Over Your Desktop –
The following is high-level desktop customization. You’ll be using various tools and resources to bring together a unique desktop that represents the futuristic sci-fi theme of the Alienware systems regardless of whether you actually own an Alienware PC or not.
1. REQUIREMENTS: This theme requires that you have Windows 10 with the November 2015 update installed. So it must be Version 1511, Build 10586. Trying this theme on older builds is not likely to work. To find out which version of Windows you have, type winver in the start menu and hit enter.
2. CAUTION: While the process is fairly simple and should take about 15 – 30 minutes to set up, make sure you follow the instructions correctly and backup any file that you may have to modify. Just drop a comment below if you need any help. Before we begin installing the theme, make sure you create a system restore point so that we can restore our PC in case something goes wrong. It is really important you do this before going to the next step.
3. TO DOWNLOAD: Imagine we are going to build a spaceship and we need to assemble all the parts first. Download these 4 files that are listed below. Do NOT run any of them for now.
Extract the contents of the AlienwareRedThemeRaiderDownloads.rar into a new folder and put the other 2 files that you downloaded in there as well. So you end up with a similar folder like this for quick access.
Now we’ll move on to installing the visual style for our theme.
A Visual Style is a 3rd party theme that will change several aspects of your PC. This includes changes to your explorers, task bar, start menu, cursor, sound and icons. Credits to AlienByte for creating the Alienware Red visual style that we’ll be using.
In order to use 3rd party themes, you need to patch your system by installing the following applications. If you’ve already used 3rd party themes before it is likely your system is already patched, in which case you may not have to install these applications again.
Star wars battlefront ii. 1. OldNewExplorer: Extract the OldNewExplorer.rar file that you downloaded to a new folder and run the OldNewExplorerCfg program. Set the settings as the same as the screenshot you see below. Hit Install and complete the installation.
2. StartIsBack: Next run the StartIsBackPlusPlus_setup.exe file that you downloaded and complete the installation. After installation, simply close the program if it runs automatically.
3. UXThemePatcher: Now extract the UXThemePatcher10.rar file that you downloaded and run the UXThemePatcher10.exe and complete the setup. After the installation is complete the system will do a quick restart.
4. Copy Theme Files: The next thing we need to do is extract the contents of the theme_w10__alien_return_red__november_update__by_alien_byte-d9m5pp2.zip file that you downloaded into a new folder. Navigate to the Theme W10 TH2 Alien Return Red folder inside it.
Copy paste the two contents of that folder (two ALIEN_RETURN_RED file/folders) into the C:WindowsResourcesThemes folder of your PC.
5. More Patching: Extract the contents of the Theme Patcher.rar that you downloadedinto a new folder. You’ll find a Add_Take_Ownership_to_context_menu file inside a Take OwnershipREG files folder. Run it and confirm to complete the registry change.
5a. Now go to your C:WindowsSystem32 folder and search for themeui.dll. Right click the file and click Open File Location.
5b. Right click the file and click Take Ownership. Select Yes when prompted for confirmation.
5c. Now right click the file again and rename it to themeui.dll.del. Click Yes and then Continue when prompted.
5d. Now copy/paste the themeui.dll file that you’ll find in the File Patch x86 (if your Windows 10 is 32-bit) or File Patch x64 (if your Windows 10 is 64-bit) folders from Step 5 to the C:WindowsSystem32 folder.
5e. Repeat steps 5a to 5d for two more files: uxtheme.dll and uxinit.dll.
6. RESTART: Once you’ve copy/pasted all 3 files, restart your system for patches to take effect.
7. Taskbar Color Effect: Extract the contents of the TBCE.zip file that you downloaded into a new folder. Run the Taskbar Color Effect.exe file that you extracted. You’ll find it added as a new icon in your systray. Right click the icon and go to Settings.
Once it opens, select Custom Image BG option. It’ll prompt you to select an image so browse to the Taskbar Alien Return Red TBCE folder that you extracted in Step 4 and select that Alien Return Red taskbar image.
Click Save for changes to take effect.
8. Alienware Theme Raider Theme Pack: For the last step, run the AlienwareRedThemeRaider.deskthemepack file that you downloaded. And voila, if you did everything right, you’ll have something that looks like this with modified explorers, task bar, icons, cursors and sounds.
If your taskbar doesn’t look the same, try to run StartIsBack and set the transparency of the taskbar to 100%. Also make sure the taskbar icons are set to Large Size by right clicking the taskbar and selecting Properties.
If it still doesn’t look right, drop a comment below with a screenshot of your PC and I’ll take a look.
And that’s it! Congrats~! You’ve successfully completed this tutorial. Kudos to you for sticking through to the end!
RESET TO DEFAULT: Change the theme back to the default Windows 10 theme to switch back the Visual Style to default. Uninstall StartIsBack to switch back to the Windows 10 task bar and Start Menu.
CREDITS: As mentioned before, credits to deviantart users designfjotten and AlienByte for creating the cool wallpaper and visual style respectively.
Hope you liked this theme. If you have any questions, suggestions or comments, drop them below. Good luck~!
I have done all the steps but some features dont work in my laptop .like taskbar background and changing the icons to the theme .only the desktop background appears.also in editing the Themeui.dll it does not give the option to take ownership
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And these are the plain color Windows 10 wallpapers with only a logo of Windows on the wallpaper:
And if you are looking for a complete theme instead of only the wallpapers or even wallpapers of different genres, you may visit the Microsoft’s gallery of Desktop wallpapers and Windows 10 themes for download.
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Setting a unique background on each of your multiple monitors was a simple trick in Windows 8, but the menu is buried to the point of being invisible in Windows 10. But it’s still there, if you know where to look.
When to Use This Trick (and When to Use Third Party Tools)
First and foremost, we want to make the best use of your time–both in reading this tutorial and down the road when you’re using our advice to mix up your wallpapers. With that in mind, consider the following two scenarios.
Scenario one: You infrequently change your desktop wallpaper, but you would really like to have a different background on each monitor. In this scenario, the solution in this article (which is quick and uses Windows’ built-in settng) is a perfect one as it’s light on system resources.
Scenario two: if you want to use multiple and different wallpapers on each of your monitors, and you want a high degree of control over that, then the standard wallpaper options in Windows 10 probably won’t cut it. If you’re a wallpaper junkie or really need fine tooth control over the backgrounds, then we strongly recommend the the venerable (and still quite useful) John’s Background Switcher (free) or the Swiss Army Knife of multimonitor management, DisplayFusion (the features relevant to wallpaper management are available in the free version).
If you find yourself in scenario one, though, let’s take a look at how to set a custom wallpaper on each monitor in Windows 10. (And if you’re in a customize-all-the-things mood, be sure to check out how to customize your Windows 10 login and lock screen, too.)
How to Select Unique Wallpapers for Different Monitors in Windows 10
There are two ways two go about selecting multiple monitor wallpapers in Windows 10–neither particularly intuitive. For each method, we’ll use a handful of Game of Thrones wallpapers to demonstrate. For frame of reference, here’s what our current desktop looks like, with the default Windows 10 wallpaper repeated on each of our three monitors.
It’s nice wallpaper, as far as stock wallpaper goes, but a tad boring. Let’s mix it up.
The Easy, but Imperfect Method: Change Your Wallpaper With the Windows File Explorer
The first method isn’t intuitive, because it relies on you selecting the images in Windows’ File Explorer and knowing how Windows will handle your multiple image selection. Select your images in the File Explorer, using Ctrl or Shift to select multiple images. Right click on the image you wish to assign to your primary monitor while the images you want to use are still selected. (Note, this is primary as in the monitor Windows thinks of as the primary monitor per the Settings > System > Display menu in the Control Panel, not necessarily the monitor you consider the primary/important one.) In the right-click context menu, select “Set as desktop background”.
Windows will set those images as your desktop wallpapers. Below, you can see that the image we clicked on (the red wallpaper with the House Lannister crest) is on the center monitor. The two other wallpapers, for House Stark and House Baratheon, are more or less randomly placed on the secondary and tertiary monitor.
This is a particularly inelegant solution, because you have no control over where the images on the non-primary monitors will be placed. It also has two other irritating shortcomings: if the images are not the exact resolution of your monitor, they won’t work, and they will randomly rotate positions every 30 minutes.
With those shortcomings in mind, know that we’ve shown you this method entirely in the name of thoroughness and education and not because we think you’ll prefer it. Let’s look at a much better method.
The Complicated, but Powerful Method: Change Your Wallpaper With the Personalization Menu
When Windows 8 came out, one of the first things multi-monitor users noticed is that there were a bunch of new menu options, including a very easy to use multi-monitor wallpaper selection tool built right into the Personalizations menu in the Control Panel. Inexplicably, that option vanished in Windows 10.
You won’t find it in Settings > Personalization > Backgrounds where it used to be–there you can only set a single image as your background regardless of how many monitors you have. Further, you won’t find it where it used to reside in Windows 8, in Control Panel > Appearance and Personalization > Personalization where there used to be a direct link to it. Strangely, even though no menus directly link to it anymore, the menu itself is just hanging out there waiting for you.
To access it, press Windows+R on your keyboard to call up the Run dialog box and enter the following text:
Press Enter and, by the power of command line tricks, you’ll see the old wallpaper selection menu.
If we click on the “Browse” button, we can browse to the folder with our Game of Thrones wallpapers (or we can use the dropdown menu to navigate to existing wallpaper locations like the Windows Pictures library).
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Once you’ve loaded the directory you wish to work with, here’s where you’ll finally get the per-monitor control you’ve been looking for. Deselect the images (Windows automatically checks all of them when you load the directory) and then select a single image. Right click on it and select the monitor you wish to assign it to (again, visit Settings > System > Display if you don’t know which monitor is which number).
Repeat the process for whatever wallpaper you wish to use for each monitor. The end result? Exactly the wallpaper we want on each monitor:
If you want to further mix things up, you can always select multiple images and then use the “Picture position” drop down menu to make adjustments to how the image is displayed and the “Change picture every” menu to tweak how often the selection of photos you have are changed up.
It’s not the most sophisticated system in the world (see some of the third party options we highlighted in the introduction for more advanced features) but it gets the job done.
Despite the menu vanishing from the Control Panel, a little command line-fu returns it, and you can easily customize your wallpapers across multiple monitors to your heart’s content.
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Alongside a handful of new features and improvements, Windows 10 also introduces a bunch of new wallpapers. Microsoft has added new wallpapers for the desktop, and even the lock screen. The latest build of Windows 10, build 10159 introduces a couple of new wallpapers – including the new Windows 10 default wallpaper. If you don’t have Build 10159 and want to use the new wallpapers, don’t fret – we’ve got you covered.
We’ve gathered all the new wallpapers on the latest build and uploaded it to OneDrive for you to download. Head over to this link to download the wallpapers from OneDrive. Alternatively, you can download the wallpapers from this Imgur album as well.
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