Probably something to do with being created in an old version of DX, or some incompatible plug in, like DXToys. Open the .dxtheme with winzip and take out anything that looks like an old plug in, and then see if it will run.

Thanks it's on its way dawebmassa. Boxxi I opened it and nothing out of the ordinary. Mostly pngs, jpg, and a simple dx object mouseover. Here's the ini settings for it


VERSION 152
PREVWORKAREA 0 0 1024 768
THEMEINFO
Blank Desktop




!THEMEINFO
WALLPAPERFILE bowen.jpg
WALLPAPERSTYLE r
APPLYWALLPAPER 1
DESKTOPCOLOR 65280
WORKAREA 0 0 0 0
LABELOFFSET 5
LABELDISP 3
LABELSYSCOLORS
OBJECT
ZORDER 30
FOCUS r
MOVEMENT d
CMDMODE d
SHOWMODE 0
GRAPHICTYPE 0
CLASSID 12
OBJID
PARENTID
POPUP 0
POPUPDIR 00000
X 298.0
Y 447.0
ADJUSTPOSX a
ADJUSTPOSY a
EVENT Mouse away
IMAGEFILE blue helo.png
ICONSIZE 32
FRAMES 1
ALPHATYPE n
PPALPHA
!EVENT
EVENT Mouse over
IMAGEFILE helo3.png
ICONSIZE 32
FRAMES 3
INTERVAL 50
STYLE f
LOOP
ALPHATYPE n
PPALPHA
!EVENT
!OBJECT
OBJECT
ZORDER 30
FOCUS r
MOVEMENT d
CMDMODE d
SHOWMODE 0
GRAPHICTYPE 2
CLASSID 12
OBJID
PARENTID
POPUP 0
POPUPDIR 00000
TEXT
searching for targets...
!TEXT
TEXTALIGN 1
FONTNAME
X 443.0
Y 334.0
ADJUSTPOSX a
ADJUSTPOSY a
EVENT Mouse away
FONTCOLOR 16744448
FONTSIZE -13
FRAMES 1
ALPHATYPE n
!EVENT
EVENT Mouse over
FONTCOLOR 65280
FONTSIZE -13
FRAMES 1
ALPHATYPE n
!EVENT
!OBJECT
OBJECT
ZORDER 30
FOCUS r
MOVEMENT d
CMDMODE d
SHOWMODE 0
GRAPHICTYPE 0
CLASSID 1
OBJID
PARENTID
POPUP 0
POPUPDIR 00000
X 912.0
Y 588.0
ADJUSTPOSX a
ADJUSTPOSY a
EVENT Mouse away
IMAGEFILE dkredtarget.png
ICONSIZE 32
FRAMES 1
ALPHATYPE n
PPALPHA
!EVENT
EVENT Mouse over
IMAGEFILE redtarget.png
ICONSIZE 32
FRAMES 1
ALPHATYPE n
PPALPHA
!EVENT
!OBJECT
OBJECT
ZORDER 30
FOCUS r
MOVEMENT d
CMDMODE d
SHOWMODE 0
GRAPHICTYPE 0
CLASSID 33
OBJID
PARENTID
ICONDIST 2
ICONOFFSET 0
POPUP 0
POPUPDIR 00000
X 459.0
Y 285.0
EXPANDEDW 300
ADJUSTPOSX c
ADJUSTPOSY c
EVENT Mouse away
IMAGEFILE clearbox.png
ICONSIZE 32
FRAMES 1
ALPHATYPE n
PPALPHA
TILESTARTX 12
TILEENDX 32
!EVENT
!OBJECT
OBJECT
ZORDER 30
FOCUS d
MOVEMENT d
CMDMODE d
SHOWMODE 0
GRAPHICTYPE 0
CLASSID 5
OBJID
PARENTID
CMD1 http://games.earthlink.net
POPUP 0
POPUPDIR 00000
X 640.0
Y 283.0
ADJUSTPOSX a
ADJUSTPOSY a
EVENT Mouse down
IMAGEFILE earthlink.ico
ICONSIZE 32
FRAMES 1
ALPHATYPE n
PPALPHA
!EVENT
!OBJECT
OBJECT
ZORDER 30
FOCUS d
MOVEMENT d
CMDMODE d
SHOWMODE 0
GRAPHICTYPE 0
CLASSID 5
OBJID
PARENTID
CMD1 www.af.mil
POPUP 0
POPUPDIR 00000
X 318.0
Y 660.0
ADJUSTPOSX a
ADJUSTPOSY a
EVENT Mouse away
IMAGEFILE wings.png
ICONSIZE 32
FRAMES 5
INTERVAL 50
STYLE f
ALPHATYPE n
PPALPHA
!EVENT
EVENT Mouse over
IMAGEFILE wings.png
ICONSIZE 32
FRAMES 5
INTERVAL 50
STYLE b
ALPHATYPE n
PPALPHA
!EVENT
!OBJECT
OBJECT
ZORDER 30
FOCUS r
MOVEMENT x
CMDMODE d
SHOWMODE 2
GRAPHICTYPE 0
CLASSID 1
OBJID incredimail
PARENTID
CMD1 C:\Program Files\IncrediMail\bin\IncrediMail.exe
LBLTEXTCOLOR 65280
POPUP 0
POPUPDIR 00000
X 454.0
Y 617.0
ADJUSTPOSX a
ADJUSTPOSY a
EVENT Mouse away
IMAGEFILE clearbox.png
ICONSIZE 32
FRAMES 1
ALPHATYPE n
PPALPHA
!EVENT
EVENT Mouse over
IMAGEFILE greenbox.png
ICONSIZE 32
FRAMES 1
ALPHATYPE n
!EVENT
!OBJECT

Ok, I found out what the problem object was. Loaded it into the lastest DX and sure enough, crash! Fired up an older copy of DX and exported the objects one at a time. Loaded the latest DX bringing the objects in one at a time until DX crashed. After I figured out what object was causing the problem I sent a copy of it to PJPowell and he figured out why it was making DX crash and we got it fixed.

I emailed you the repaired theme which should load into the new DX fine. Thanks to PJ for helping out once again.

oh and mad ice... don't forget him.

Just to make it clear, DWM did all the hard and time consuming work of tracking down the object with the bug and exporting it. All I did was look at the ini for that object and notice a class id I didn't recognise. My part of it took about 5 seconds, his took minutes.

Oh and DaWebMassa is the MAN!!!!

Oh lord... brown-nosing just doesn't fit you PJ!