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Restrict Desktop Theme Controls (Windows XP)

These restrictions control access to the desktop theme settings including the Windows styles, buttons, schemes and fonts.

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Open your registry and find the key below.

For each required restriction create a new DWORD value from the list below and set the value to "1" to enable it.

  • NoVisualStyleChoice - Disable the "Windows and buttons" style control
  • NoColorChoice - Disable the "Color scheme" control
  • NoSizeChoice - Disable the "Font size" control
To specify the default style create a new string value called "SetVisualStyle" and set it to the full path and filename of the required .msstyles file.

Changes should take effect immediately.

Registry Editor Example
|NameTypeData|
|(Default)REG_SZ(value not set)|
|NoColorChoiceREG_DWORD0x00000001 (1)|
|NoSizeChoiceREG_DWORD0x00000001 (1)|
|NoVisualStyleChoiceREG_DWORD0x000000001 (1)|
|SetVisualStyleREG_SZC:\WINDOWS\Resources\Themes\Lun...|
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|HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\...|
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Registry Settings
User Key: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\
System]
Value Name: NoColorChoice, NoSizeChoice, NoVisualStyleChoice, SetVisualStyle

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Last modified: June 2, 2002

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