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How to design and apply a theme
Abdelrhman-AK edited this page Feb 28, 2026
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If you want to design a theme from init, press on one button from these
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Create new theme file from current registry preferences |
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Create new theme file from default Windows preferences |
Make sure that you are previewing the target OS

Change colors and edit the toggles as you want


Click on buttons you want in the lower part of the form
If you want to design one theme file valid for multiple versions of Windows, change the preview and repeat step 3, step 4: LogonUI screen and step 4: wallpaper






Press on this button
| Button | Function |
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It is discussed here in details |

Press on save or save as button, so that you can re-apply this theme later or even share it
| Button | Function |
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Save current preferences to a WinPaletter theme file |
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Save current preferences as a WinPaletter theme file (Save as ...) |

And this is to apply remaining effects on system

- Main form parts
- Color picker
- WallStudio; Generate a WinPaletter theme from an image
- Palette generator
- Skeleton of a feature modification
- How to design and apply a theme
- Theme info
- Windows colors and theme
- LogonUI screen
- Classic colors
- Cursors
- Consoles (Command Prompt and PowerShell)
- Windows Terminal
- Metrics and fonts
- Wallpaper
- Windows Effects
- Windows switcher (Alt+Tab appearance)
- Screen Saver
- Sounds
- WinPaletter application theme
- Basics
- Design themes to be uploaded to servers\GitHub repositories
- Use GitHub manager to upload and publish themes
- For Developers
- Introduction
- Sign in\out GitHub using WinPaletter
- Use GitHub manager to manage and upload themes
- GitHub Manager and security analysis
- Disable Explorer restart
- Advanced options to patch PE files
- Theme log verbose level
- Synchronize ExplorerPatcher settings with WinPaletter preview
- Apply preferences to all users and LogonUI screen















