If “Unsaved Theme” is reappearing automatically even after deleting the theme or by wiping out the custom.theme file, it could be a shell enhancement software running in the system and making changes to certain theme parameters (REF: Theme File Format). It thus creates the Unsaved Theme containing only the currently displayed wallpaper. Thanks Ramesh again for the great suggestion.”Īdditionally, if you use Bing Dynamic theme which automatically pulls down new wallpapers from the Bing servers periodically, it creates a background slideshow with the current set of downloaded images. I just changed to icon to default and the problem was gone. When I applied the Windows 7 default theme, that icon wasn’t restored and Windows 7 kept creating “Unsaved theme”.

Since then Windows 7 had recognized the default theme as “changed theme”. “Yep, I manually changed an icon of a folder a long time ago but I didn’t remember.

The current theme or any other custom theme which stills points to the deleted wallpaper image will show up as Unsaved Theme. So, editing the Wallpaper filename (and/or other theme elements paths) in your custom *.theme files should fix the Unsaved Theme problem.Īnother case: If you manually changed the icon of a shell folder like My Documents, My Music, etc., Windows had recognized the default theme as a changed theme and shows up as Unsaved Theme in the Personalization window. It could also be caused if you delete a background wallpaper file or any other element referenced in the theme file.įor instance, you may have changed the desktop background wallpaper and then deleted your old wallpaper image file which was once a part of the theme. The Unsaved Theme appears if some parameters of the theme (e.g., wallpaper, screensaver, cursor, or sound file, Window color setting, special folder icons, etc.,) are modified manually or by some third-party program. RELATED: Windows can’t find one of the files in this theme error What Causes “Unsaved Theme” to Appear in the Personalization window?

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