Windows 7 how do you Save a W7 Theme as a .msstyles extension so that it can be picked up through GP?

[jakescusack]

Hello All, i am hoping someone can help?

Basically we are trying to add a desktop theme in W7 through a GPO through User Configuration > Policies > Administrative Templates > Control Panel\Display\Desktop Themes

If i leave the box blank it installs the default W7 profile fine but we would like to customize the theme to a Aero theme, so my question is how do you save a W7 theme so that GP can pick it up?

We need to save the theme to %windir%\resources\Themes\ourtheme\Ourtheme.msstyles

So my question is how do i save a theme as an .msstyles??

We are running Server 2008 and would like to deploy this to a Windows 7 machine

I have tried saving a theme as a .themepack and that hasn’t worked...

Is anybody else having this issue?