How can I save and load a new Microsoft Plus! desktop theme in Windows XP?

A. XP's desktop themes feature lets you customize icons, desktop wallpaper, colors, mouse pointers, visual style, and sounds. If you've created your own theme, you can save it to a .theme file by performing the following steps:

XP will create a file with a .theme extension that you can back up or send to another machine.

To load a theme, perform the following steps:

Be aware that a .theme file contains only the name of your background picture, not the picture itself. Therefore, if you have a custom graphic and you haven't backed it up or copied it to another computer to the same location as your .theme file, XP will ignore the background picture setting when you try to load the theme. You can use a text editor to modify a .theme file.