Relocating theme (*.tsk) files

[Doormat]

Before I start - please note that I've spent a LOT of hours searching the forum (and the web) for a solution to this. If this has been covered already, I couldn't find it.

I've made a large collection of themes over the last couple of months playing with Theme Generator.

I know that I can store them in either My Documents or the windows directory ... but frankly I'd rather store them in their own location - it would make it a lot easier. Preferably on a storage card, but I can live without that if necessary.

I've tried numerous 'theme management' utilities (theme dream, theme changer, theme switch, Kaisoft's Today Theme Changer, and others I can't think of at the moment) and I've found that they either don't work or they come with so much cruft and bloat that they are a significant waste of space. I have no interest in animated themes, or previewing the themes before I select them (I made them ... I know what they look like :D )

What I want is to be able to create a directory (of my choice), stick all my .tsk files in there and access them from that dir either using the built in Today screen theme picker or a simple menu.

I crawled through the registry and found HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Sofware\Microsoft\Today\Skin which stores what the current theme is. Using mortscript I have written a script which permits me to change the value assigned to that key to another value. Of course it doesn't cause the Today theme to be changed, but it does let me specify a different directory.

And so to the question:

Can anyone recommend simple, bloat-free, theme manager which will let me store my themes where I want and change them easily?

OR

Can anyone help me do it via mortscript (or any other general purpose utility)?

BTW - I'm running WM 2003 as best as I can tell.

Thanks

[Rudegar]

i think it search for themes recursively
if it dont it would not work with all my tsk files being
located in my documents\skins

and it works just fine for me

[hshortt]

RPA ThemeMaster (http://www.theraggios.com/rpa/ThemeMaster.htm) is small, simple and can be set to any folder you like. It can do auto rotate after a specified time duration and can be set to random etc.

WM2003 cannot see other folders by default when looking for themes.


Cheers
Howard

[Doormat]

i think it search for themes recursively
if it dont it would not work with all my tsk files being
located in my documents\skins and it works just fine for me

I've just moved my themes to a sub dir of my documents and they are showing up, so thanks for that mate. It's not quite what I want ... but it's a vast improvement

[Doormat]

RPA ThemeMaster (http://www.theraggios.com/rpa/ThemeMaster.htm) is small, simple and can be set to any folder you like. It can do auto rotate after a specified time duration and can be set to random etc.

I'll give this a try later today.

Thanks

[davehutch]

Works fine in the Main memory "My Documents" folder but not on a storage card "My Documents" folder.
I wonder if there's a way around that?

[Mort]

Can anyone help me do it via mortscript (or any other general purpose utility)?
run( "\windows\wceload.exe", "/delete 0 /noui ""\My Documents\YourTheme.tsk""" )

[hrb]

Works fine in the Main memory "My Documents" folder but not on a storage card "My Documents" folder.
I wonder if there's a way around that?

Just put the *.tsk files into the root of the Storage Card (NOT in "My Documents"
Cheers
hrb