A while ago I displayed a little script that automatically changed the Windows display appearance from 'Windows Classic style' to 'Windows XP style'. It sometimes had problems switching to the correct window to accept key strokes, so I've made some slight adjustments.
//===================================================================
// FILE: XpStyle.js
// DESCRIPTION: automatically set to use Windows XP style
//===================================================================
// create shell object
objShell = new ActiveXObject("WScript.Shell");
// wait for other startup programs to load
WScript.Sleep(1200);
// start appearance applet and activate this window
objShell.Run('rundll32.exe Shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL desk.cpl desk,@Appearance');
// wait for appearance window
WScript.Sleep(200);
//switch to correct window
success = false;
do {
success = objShell.AppActivate("Display Properties");
} while (success == false)
WScript.Sleep(100);
// send the keystrokes to set the style
objShell.Sendkeys("{Down}");
objShell.Sendkeys("{TAB}");
objShell.Sendkeys("{Down}");
objShell.Sendkeys("{ENTER}");