Answered How to Delete My Themes

  • 3. srpna 2009 5:50
     
     
    In working with Control Panel > All Control Panel Items > Personalization, I can create a new desktop theme; however, I can not delete or remove a theme once it has been created.  You can not build upon a theme and save it to itself either.  The process of creating / deleting a theme should be straight forward.  Creating is ok...deleting is not.  Is this a bug or a setting issue?

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  • 3. srpna 2009 6:06
     
     Odpovědět
    When your on the themes page you can select one of the themes you made and right click on it and then select delete.
    • Navržen jako odpověď Wolfie2k6 3. srpna 2009 7:15
    • Označen jako odpověď Robinson Zhang 3. srpna 2009 7:30
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  • 21. října 2009 17:11
     
     Navržená odpověď
    When your on the themes page you can select one of the themes you made and right click on it and then select delete.
    Pretty much this, but you have to click on another theme so the one you want to delete is not highlighted and then right click the theme you want to delete, then click on "Delete theme".
    If its highlighted when you right click it, the only options are "Save theme" and "Save theme for sharing"

    Not very intuitive, hopefully it will be tweaked in an update.  
    • Navržen jako odpověď wizard04 28. února 2011 15:39
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  • 24. ledna 2010 20:17
     
     
    The theme you want to delete cant be in use. Try applying a complety different theme, and try again.
    • Navržen jako odpověď Niffle 16. října 2011 9:52
    • Zrušeno navržení jako odpověď Niffle 16. října 2011 9:52
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  • 14. února 2010 2:25
     
     
    DaveSimonH, Your suggestion worked and I thank you. 
  • 13. června 2010 7:09
     
     

    THANK YOU! This worked, and I had so many duplicates from editing, adding more pictures to theme, etc. that I wanted to delete the old ones and couldn't figure it out.

     

     

  • 11. září 2010 8:50
     
     

    Thanks for this. Certainly NOT intuitive, when this is a microsoft product and doesn't work the way everything else works in MS-world!

     

    Cheers

  • 21. prosince 2010 19:48
     
     

    Thanks to DaveSimonH, and to McCoy services (for asking the question so I found it on google)

    exactly what I wanted to know

  • 25. května 2011 19:52
     
     
    I randomly googled this question, and Just wanted to say thank you DaveSimonH for the answer to my issue!
  • 11. července 2011 17:05
     
     
    Thank you. This is correct.
  • 16. října 2011 9:51
     
     
    Thanks, that worked! :-) 
  • 1. května 2012 20:35
     
     
    Thank you Dave, it worked!
  • 20. června 2012 12:25
     
     

    Sorry, I tried this and it didnt work.  I deleted the theme and shut down my computer.  The next day, the theme was back.  I deleted the theme again and emptied my recycle bin.  The next day, the them is back again!

    Help!

    Btw - its much easier to "right click" on your desktop and select "personalize" to access the same menu as an alternative to the "control panel" path
    • Upravený BogDust 20. června 2012 12:27
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  • 16. října 2012 23:24
     
     

    Typical Microsoft fashion intuitiveness. I wonder sometimes who in the design department thought that would be a simple elegant solution to delete a theme. This is but one among many basic feature sets that Microsoft just utterly fails at.

    I love Windows, and I'm proud to be a Windows user but there are two things in this world that are consistent:

    The Detroit Lions will always choke.

    &

    Microsoft coming up with bonehead design choices that seem to be thought up by a robot. 

    P.S.

    They still haven't changed it, they didn't think anything was wrong with it. So instead of fixing it they just moved onto Windows 8. Ultimately slowing productivity for their GUI flavor of the month.