how do you activate desktop themes from here after DL?

Do you have Desktop X installed?

If you do have Desktop X installed and the file ends in a "dxtheme" extension, double-clicking on it will initiate activation.

Ok thx but where do I get the latest version of Desktop X? I did a search on google but I see only beta versions. thx

www.stardock.com

https://www.stardock.com

Heh, just pipped me there with that one.

My theme does not have the dxtheme extension. It's the sputnik theme here. I got desktop X installed. I just need to know how to load my theme. thx a lot.

BTW it's the sputnik 1024 theme

with desktopX running, right click on your desktop, a popup menu appears, at the bottom it says "desktopX", click that and choose "load theme". You should then get a window with all available themes listed. If sputnik is not there, it's because you didn't put it in the Themes folder in DesktopX. If it IS there, just highlight it and hit apply. DONE.

ok I did "load theme" but I extracted the zip to my folder called sputnik it has like 30 bmp images and one theme.ini icon. In the themes folder theres 4 default dxthemes there. How do I load/convert sputnik it in to a dxtheme? thx for the replies but I need a little more info. thx again. BTW BoXXi I seen some of your stuff here and it's awesome!

aha.. well, you don't really want to unzip it. if everything's still in the folder, you can zip it back up and rename it to a .dxtheme from a .zip then, if it's in program files\object desktop\desktopx, dx will find it