Rud wrote:
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> yes unfortunately I tried a dreamscene crack to enable it on my
> premium edition and its got all wrong. after running the batch file
> and rebooting, whenever I try to go to the personalize page all i get
> is "page failed to load". now I dont know how to fix or, and the
> downside is that I didnt create a restore point before trying the
> crack.
> im hoping someone else has tried the same crack, ended up with the
> same problem and hopefully fixed it. the crack was
> NonUltimateDreamScene.zip.
>
> anyone with some ideas? (and not "its your own fault" comments lol)[/color]

Post the contents of the batch file: it sure will tell something useful to
understand what happened.
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Here's the batch file:

<quote>

@echo off
TITLE Windows DreamScene for non-Ultimate Vista
echo.
echo Windows DreamScene for non-Ultimate Vista
echo for Windows Vista Starter, Home Basic, Home Premium, Business and
Enterprise Editions
echo.
echo (c) My Digital Life ([url]www.mydigitallife.info[/url])
echo.
echo.
echo Confirm to install? (Press Ctrl-C and answer Y to terminate)
pause
echo.
echo.

copy DreamScene.dll to %WinDir%\System32\DreamScene.dll /y
copy DreamScene.dll to %WinDir%\System32\en-US\DreamScene.dll /y

takeown /f %WinDir%\System32\themecpl.dll
icacls %WinDir%\System32\themecpl.dll /grant "%username%":f
copy %WinDir%\System32\themecpl.dll %WinDir%\System32\themecpl.dll.original
copy themecpl.dll %WinDir%\System32\themecpl.dll /y

takeown /f %WinDir%\System32\en-US\themecpl.dll.mui
icacls %WinDir%\System32\en-US\themecpl.dll.mui /grant "%username%":f
copy %WinDir%\System32\en-US\themecpl.dll.mui
%WinDir%\System32\en-US\themecpl.dll.mui.original
copy themecpl.dll.mui %WinDir%\System32\en-US\themecpl.dll.mui /y

mkdir "%WinDir%\Web\Windows DreamScene"

reg import DreamScene.reg
echo.
echo *** Windows DreamScene installation completed. ***
echo.
pause

<end>

But I don't see anything of immediate concern there, just changes of
permissions to allow manuevering of system files. Of more concern to me is
the .reg file that is part of it (referred to as import dreamscene.reg near
the end of the batch). This file changes a lot of the power control keys and
one of these changes is more than likely the culprit. My first thought would
be to either run System Restore from a command prompt, or to grab the last
known good configuration from the boot menu to undo the changes.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
[url]http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/[/url]
Windows help - [url]www.rickrogers.org[/url]
My thoughts [url]http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com[/url]

"Villi Bernaroli" <a@b.invalid> wrote in message
news:eDN3$spzHHA.2312@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...[color=blue]
> Rud wrote:
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>> yes unfortunately I tried a dreamscene crack to enable it on my
>> premium edition and its got all wrong. after running the batch file
>> and rebooting, whenever I try to go to the personalize page all i get
>> is "page failed to load". now I dont know how to fix or, and the
>> downside is that I didnt create a restore point before trying the
>> crack.
>> im hoping someone else has tried the same crack, ended up with the
>> same problem and hopefully fixed it. the crack was
>> NonUltimateDreamScene.zip.
>>
>> anyone with some ideas? (and not "its your own fault" comments lol)[/color]
>
> Post the contents of the batch file: it sure will tell something useful to
> understand what happened.
> --
> News Microsoft
>[/color]