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I created a theme pack by hand and when importing, Windows told me

Windows can't save this theme to your computer

Here's the theme file I've written, according to this MSDN article:

[Theme]
; Windows - IDS_THEME_DISPLAYNAME_AERO
DisplayName=TestTheme
ThemeId={1285AB36-C1B6-4207-A43E-84FCE21B54E4} ; Randomly typed

[Control Panel\Desktop]
Wallpaper=Images\default.jpg
Pattern=
MultimonBackgrounds=0
PicturePosition=4
WallpaperStyle=10

[Slideshow]
Interval=600000
Shuffle=1
ImagesRootPath=Images

[VisualStyles]
Path=%SystemRoot%\resources\themes\Aero\Aero.msstyles
ColorStyle=NormalColor
Size=NormalSize
AutoColorization=1
ColorizationColor=0XC44D71B3
VisualStyleVersion=10
Transparency=1

[MasterThemeSelector]
MTSM=DABJDKT

And as well, Here's the directory tree of my working folder:

MyTheme\
  MyTheme.theme
  Images\
    default.jpg
    image1.jpg
    image2.jpg

I've successfully packed the theme into a CAB and renamed it to MyTheme.deskthemepack, and it gone all through until I double-click in Explorer, when Windows gave me the error above.

What could be the problem?

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  • Background: I'm going to write a script to automatically generate theme packs from my photo library, so I decided to create the first one by hand to clear out any potential problems with the theme pack itself.
    – iBug
    Dec 20, 2017 at 14:35

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This is very strange, but DesktopBackground seems to be the only valid name for the folder containing background images.

Changing all Images in the theme file and renaming the folder to DesktopBackground worked for me. Additionally, I tried a few similar names and they all failed.

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