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Windows keeps changing my theme

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I turned on the computer last night and *poof* my classic theme was replaced by the Playskool-lookin' one and I thought it was a one time occurrence, so I just set it back to classic. This morning I turned it on and it did the same thing.

It's really weird, all the windows borders have the Playskool look, but the start menu (and most everything else) keeps the classic look.

I'm disabling the themes service and running mbam until I can figure it out.
 
have you installed something like a game for your kids to play?
 
I don't have kids, and I haven't installed anything for a couple of weeks.
 
Update:
Don't have to worry about my theme, Windows simply refuses to boot. Blue screen after a pause at the load bar *wahoo*.
 
Theme changes followed by refusal to boot and blue screens most probably mean a virus..
 
That's what I figured.

Guess I gotta wipe and rebuild.
 
WTF? I installed Windows, haven't run anything at all, I set the theme to classic, restarted, *poof* Playskool.
 
Oh noes the playskool worm :O
 
Ran MBAM and shows nothing, running clamav from linux so far nothing. This is really starting to piss me off.
 
Guess what? I booted into Windows and it's still on the classic theme! I haven't tried it again yet, but I'm really happy!
 
Everything seems to work fine now.
 
can you post a screenshot?
 
It's back to normal now, so not unless it tweaks again.
 
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