Your current desktop colors will fade to gray while the new settings are applied. While Windows XP loads the desktop theme, you'll see a Please Wait message in the middle of the screen.Click OK to load the new theme and close the Display Properties dialog box.In the Open Theme dialog box, access the My Documents folder, locate your theme file, and double-click it.On the Themes tab, click the Theme drop-down list and select Browse.Right-click the desktop and select Properties to open the Display Properties dialog box.Go to the other computer on which you would like to have your favorite desktop theme and copy the.theme extension, locate your file, and copy it to a floppy disk or USB thumb drive. Launch Windows Explorer and access the My Documents folder.On the Themes tab, with your theme selected, click the Save As button and save the file to the My Documents folder (or folder of your choice). On the computer containing your favorite desktop theme, right-click the desktop and select Properties.
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This blog post is also available in PDF format in a TechRepublic download. Here's how you can easily copy your favorite desktop theme from one Windows XP computer to another. However, manually recreating the desktop theme can be a tricky and time-consuming operation. If you have created a favorite desktop theme and you work on more than one Microsoft Windows XP computer, you may have considered recreating that theme on your other computers.