Using a theme in pidgin in windows

Using a theme in pidgin in windows I am trying to apply a theme to Pidgin in Windows 7 but cannot find out how. I looked here which tells me to place them in:
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Guest [Entry]

Have you tried restarting the app after putting the themes in the folder? Sometimes, applications only scan certain plugins or themes folders when they are started.

Guest [Entry]

"The instructions you use are speaking about the GTK theme, which only affects the buttons/menus/other controls. (And the GTK theme is set in ~/.gtkrc-2.0 in case you want to change that too.)

Smiley themes should be installed to ~/.purple/smileys/ (%AppData%\.purple\smileys\)"