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Originally Posted by RideTheTube

Could someone explain me - how to set another theme as default in Kitchen as the windows classic blue theme..thx

Here are the instructions. It is recommended that you have WinCE CAB Manager to do this, otherwise it might be a bit difficult.

1. Edit the mxipcold_wpc_2.provxml file:
   • At the top of the file, change the registry setting HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Today\Skin to the name of the new .tsk to be used
   • Change the names and paths of the .png files to be used (e.g. replace all occurences of "classicBlue_" with "rockandrepublicblack_")
2. Open up the TSK file with a CAB editor or file extractor of some sort (e.g. WinRAR), and then extract the two stwater*.jpg files and put them into your cooking folder.
   • For VGA, they are stwater_480_640.jpg and stwater_640_480.jpg.
   • For QVGA, they are stwater_240_320.jpg and stwater_320_240.jpg
   • You will also need the TSK file in your cooking folder, so don't delete it
3. If you are using a custom theme and not one of the ones supplied by Microsoft in the SYS, then open up the TSK file with a CAB editor (e.g. WinCE CAB Manager)
   • Make sure the registry entries in the TSK file have the *.PNG files pointing to the desired folder (I always have them going under \Windows and not \My Documents\Themes --- it is more stable that way).
     • The easiest way to do this is to export the CAB's registry to a file, then to do a search and replace of the file locations, and then import the registry file back into the CAB.
4. In the TSK file, open its registry settings and find the entries under HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Color\MultiColorTheme. COPY these values over to the mxipcold_wpc_2.provxml file in Step 1 (replace the existing values in the provxml).

That should be enough, unless I'm stupid and forgot something. These steps work for me all the time.