Resolved windows color and appearance not taking

for some reason my windows 7 shows a window frame like "normal" for windows 7, i.e. frame color is pale blue.

I had (have) Windows Color and Appearance set to resemble XP . Only
two of the changes are actually applied (font and application background).

Changing themes has no effect (tried XP, windows classic,
and windows7 basic).

MSE, MBAM, TDSS, Spybot all report no virus.

Any suggestions?

thanks,

 

Evan,

Thanks for the feedback.

The Desktop Window Manager Session Manager was disabled. I started it
and set it to automatic. When i re-booted, it stayed "started" and automatic.

There was no changes to the color scheme tho. I re-tried the themes -
windows 7 (Areo), windows 7 basic, and windows classic, all with no
effect.

Still researching,

 

Got it!

Don't know how or why but switched to windows basic again and reset
all color settings again and it worked.

One day we will figure all this out (and MS will have a large update the
next day).

Thanks for the help,