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Having had my Satellite A300-1BZ for a couple of years now I found myself suddenly bored of the standard vista themes and began to play around with changing them. (I was after an ultimate black look with changed start buttons and menu's etc)
Anyway cut to the chase, I went wrong somewhere with VistaGlazz following the steps of replacing something like shell32.dll
As it said in the readme file I changed it to shell32.dll.bak
My computer continued to run fine until I ran a restart. After that all I got after the log on screen was a blue screen with a mouse.
http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i53/eazynowrudeboy/IMG000030.jpg
Luckilly I have an iphone so managed to get onto the internet forums and find a solution which was to use a command in cmd.exe which repaired the problem.
The only thing now is that I have an extremely basic windows classic theme which when I try to change it to Vista in theme settings it gives the message:
*"the theme could not load. %1 is not a valid win32 application"*
Any help and step by step for basic user would be much appreciated! I am guessing it cant all be that bad since Windows is still running and functioning correctly!
Thanks

Thank you for both your replies, I have attempted to do a system restore to various points however each time get an error message saying that the restore could not be completed? I will give it a go again later on and repost the contents of the message.
I then started digging for my recovery disks which I had to create myself when buying the laptop and have only managed to find disc one and I'm sure I remember creating two but cannot find it anywhere.
Do you know what content would be on disc two and whether I can do it with just number one disc?
Thanks for your assistance its very much appreciated!

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