How to Unlock Windows 7 Hidden Themes

Windows 7 hidden themes, well, yes! windows 7 has some hidden themes which has unknown to many. Generally windows 7 has default 5 themes but Windows 7 beta 1 build 7000 onwards has several hidden and locked themes, which has been provided for regional countries such as Australia, Canada, Great Britain, United States and South Africa. Well for revealing those regional themes you have to unlock it. So follow the guidelines from bellow.

How to Unlock Windows 7 Hidden Themes

Method 1 -

• Unhide the Windows 7 System and Protected Operating System files from Windows explorer -> Organize -> Folder and Search Options -> view tab
• And navigate to C:\Windows\Globalization\MCT , you will see 5 folders. Namely MCT-AU for an Australian theme, MCT-CA for a Canadian theme, MCT-GB for a British theme, MCT-US for an American theme and MCT-ZA for a South African theme
• Open the Theme folder in the selected region folder
• Now select the .theme file to use it

NOTE – Once you have select the theme, the Windows 7 will save it so that you will be able to change or select this theme again from within the normal Personalization window location

Method 2 -

• Go to \Windows\winsxs Directory
• Search for *.theme
• Now double click themes with name in the format of XX to apply and save the theme

Method 3 -

• Open Notepad and copy the following code

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Themes\InstalledThemes\MCT]

“%windir%\\Globalization\\MCT\\MCT-AU\\Theme\\AU.theme”=””

“%windir%\\Globalization\\MCT\\MCT-CA\\Theme\\CA.theme”=””

“%windir%\\Globalization\\MCT\\MCT-GB\\Theme\\GB.theme”=””

“%windir%\\Globalization\\MCT\\MCT-US\\Theme\\US.theme”=””

“%windir%\\Globalization\\MCT\\MCT-ZA\\Theme\\ZA.theme”=””

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Wallpapers\KnownFolders\Windows Wallpapers\MergeFolders]

“%windir%\\Globalization\\MCT\\MCT-AU\\Wallpaper”=””

“%windir%\\Globalization\\MCT\\MCT-CA\\Wallpaper”=””

“%windir%\\Globalization\\MCT\\MCT-GB\\Wallpaper”=””

“%windir%\\Globalization\\MCT\\MCT-US\\Wallpaper”=””

“%windir%\\Globalization\\MCT\\MCT-ZA\\Wallpaper”=””

• Now save it as allregional.reg on desktop
• And simply double click on it (allregional.reg)
• Well, that is it, Now you can access all Windows 7 Hidden & Locked Themes via right clicking on desktop and personalize settings