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I recently discovered about the root cause of black screen bug in OS X Mavericks Transformation Pack 3.x. It was caused by improper modification of explorerframe.dll resources with help from deviantart user ‘VasiliKoslov’. This guide will tell you how to uninstall bugged version of OS X Mavericks Transformation Pack before installing fixed ones.
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UPDATE #2: Fixed potential black screen and theme engine bugs in Windows 8/8.1. Please uninstall and install a new build to correct these problems.
UPDATE #1: Theme engine’s dependencies in Windows XP bug fixed.
After releasing version 3.0 last month, I put on some stuff here and there according to feedback I received. Hot screen corner is back as optional feature, reported installation errors fixed including classic theme bug and probably black screen ones too, invisible tray icon arrow in Windows 7 now changed with black arrow and I also added Yosemite wallpaper grabbed from 9to5mac.com as being speculated to be new OS X next month.
UPDATE #3: Corrupted file causing I/O error during install fixed after UPDATE #2.
UPDATE #2: takeown.exe error on x86 OS fixed and added LiveTuner promotion.
UPDATE #1: Font installation bug is fixed. Please download and reinstall if failed.
Since black screen’s root cause and solution is identified, this month’s mission is to release all related projects with black screen fixes applied. But releasing with just black screen fixes is kind of boring so I’ll include some other updates as well. For Windows 8 Transformation/UX Pack, I fixed some reported bugs with new Windows 7 themes. It looks really great on my laptop and highly customizable for Modern/Metro/Glass UI. I wonder why not much of people found this gem.
With black screen solution proposed by Alex Ong (eXAKR), I created emergency patcher while waiting for Rafael’s official updates with black screen bug fixed. I also include adding UxStyle service in safe mode as Rafael suggested to do too. It’s highly recommend to apply this fix if you’re running custom themes with UxStyle, UXTheme Multi-Patcher, Windows 8 Transformation/UX Pack or OS X Mavericks Transformation/UX Pack.
If you already have black screen problem and have trouble running this fix, press CTRL+SHIFT+ESC to invoke Task Manager and run new task from there.
Download: UxStyle Black Screen Fixer
I planned to release UXTheme patcher updates with 8/8.1 glass support yesterday someone reported UXTheme Multi-Patcher caused infamous black screen bug just before releasing it… Well, I was terrified. How could such a service patching theme engine files through memory patching lead to this? So I digged up some search about ‘UxStyle black screen’ and found these
http://neiio.deviantart.com/journal/poll/3353886/
Further investigation reported that even Microsoft update itself randomly caused it sometimes. Although the chance to get black screen from UxStyle is very low but I’ll apply permission fixes to all related files hoping this will secure your system from black screen bug after patching. If you have any Transformation/UX Pack installed, please reinstall UXTheme Multi-Patcher to make sure you won’t get in trouble after applying updates. I’ll update Windows 8 projects soon with these issues covered.
Download: UXTheme Multi-Patcher 10.0 with Fixer | UxStyle Black Screen Fixer Only
