Thanx:)
Patching the files is pretty easy, just run uxtheme patcher (http://deepxw.blogspot.com/2008/11/universal-theme-patcher.html) and patch the 3 files and reboot.
Just make sure you run the correct exe for your system, 32 or 64 bit.
Then you place the themefile and the blend folder in the themes folder inside the recource folder in windows folder..just like you did in xp.
To change startorb just run this little awesome tool (http://www.door2windows.com/windows-7-start-button-changer-change-your-windows-7-start-button-with-one-click/)
Thanks. I'm tending to shy away from that specific UXTheme Patcher, because if you read the comments section... many, many people are having problems with it, and the creator hasn't fixed the bugs yet. In the instructions that were on DeviantART for the Blend 2.0 theme, it said to take ownership of some system file and replace it with a system file from the theme... does not doing that affect the theme in any way, like change its appearance or anything like that?

