Winaero Theme Switcher - change a theme from the command line

[Sergey "hb860"]

Theme Switcher is an application which allows you to change a Windows theme from the command line. It has GUI:

but it is primarily intended to be used with the command prompt or in a batch file where you want to automate the applying of a custom theme.

The syntax is as follows:

ThemeSwitcher.exe path_to_file.theme

e.g., to apply the Windows 8's "Earth" theme, you can run the following command:

themeswitcher.exe c:\Windows\Resources\Themes\theme1.theme

If theme is located in one of the following folders:

C:\Windows\Resources\Themes

C:\Windows\Resources\Easy of Access Themes

C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Themes

then you need not specify the full path to the theme file or even its extension, just specify the file name. So, the example above can be shorten to

themeswitcher.exe theme1

You can see how it works here:

This app will work with Windows 7 (Home Premium edition and above) and Windows 8 (all editions except RT).

Download Winaero Theme Switcher

[Sergey "hb860"]

According to user request, I added new option:

themeswitcher.exe start[/CODE]

It changes Windows theme to a random theme from themes you have installed.

You can put shortcut to your Startup folder and every time you start your Windows it will have new theme.

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