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Andres Jaimes

Where does Windows Live Writer store themes

By Andres Jaimes

Windows Live Writer makes a local copy of your website images and style sheets everytime you click on the Update Theme button located in the Blog Account ribbon.

You can find your local CSS file(s) in the following folder on Windows 7:

C:UsersYour NameAppDataRoamingWindows Live Writerblogtemplates

If you only have one blog, you are lucky. Get into the only folder you find there. If you have many blogs it will be a trial and error process to find out the right folder where your CSS files are located. You can ease this task by updating your theme from Windows Live Writer and then sorting these folders by date. Once you get into the right folder, look for your CSS. There might be more than one copy of it in these folders, so be sure to update them all.

When you’re done, close and reopen Writer to be sure it uses your new CSS.