Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Unlock hidden Windows 7 Themes

themes windows 7

There are a number of regional themes with multiple unique background images hidden from Windows 7 users. On a Windows 7 install with United States regional settings only the United States theme is shown but there are actually four more themes hidden from view.

All these hidden themes can be accessed once you know where to find them. The trick is to navigate to the C:\Windows\Globalization\MCT directory.

The MCT directory within the Globalization directory is super hidden so it will not display even if show hidden files and folders is enabled.

Just click on the address bar of any folder and manually type in or copy and paste in C:\Windows\Globalization\MCT and hit Enter.

ThemeDir

Once you have reached the MCT folder you will see five directories as listed below:

  • MCT-AU
  • MCT-CA
  • MCT-GB
  • MCT-US
  • MCT-ZA

To view and use the theme for each region just navigate into each MCT-Region directory, enter the Theme folder and double click the theme file.

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