TUTORIAL: Change Look-n-Feel of Windows XP Start Menu

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dreams

dreams

Gracias Senor
Hi Vishal Genius..

Its really gr8 to hv u in this forum workin for us..all the tuts are goood...

I d/l the visual style frm deviant art and it doesnt seem to work 4 me..i dbl clikd on msstyles and nothin happens..also i copied the whole folder to themes folder..stil nothin..also i hv patched the UXtheme also..

any other tricks??

TIA
 
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Vishal Gupta

Vishal Gupta

Microsoft MVP
Thats strange. Which theme did u d/l from DeviantArt?
Try to patch uxtheme.dll again in safe mode and also d/l the theme file again or try with some other themes.
 
dreams

dreams

Gracias Senor
I d/l ur Vista VG styles..not only this time..for loooong bac too i am not able to apply any themes like these..so i mostly prefer windowblinds..but the WB5 version didnt work for me perfectly so jus searchin for any simple methods like the one u hv posted..

Also i hv a quick qn.. i hv a screensaver frm a vista computer..i copied the .scr file and kept the file in system folder..this too not showin in the screesavers dropdown??

any guesses??
 
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Vishal Gupta

Vishal Gupta

Microsoft MVP
Pls try to patch the uxtheme.dll file again in Safe Mode using the patcher mentioned by me in following thread:

*www.thinkdigit.com/forum/showthread.php?t=30897

Also try to d/l the latest VistaVG RTM theme.

Regarding to screensaver, it'll not work in XP until u patch it. ;)
 
dreams

dreams

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I d/l the patcher frm ur post only..wil try it to apply once again..and reg the scrsaver u told it cant work without patching..which means??

I hv one more critical qn 4 u!!!
 
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Vishal Gupta

Vishal Gupta

Microsoft MVP
Vista applications, screensavers, etc don't work in XP. U'll get "Invalid Win32 application" like error. But there r softwares available which can patch them so that u can use them in Vista. Like u can use Vista Sidebar, mspaint, calculator, screensavers, games, etc in XP. One such software is VAIO Pack. Just google for it and u'll know what I'm talking about. ;)
 
dreams

dreams

Gracias Senor
finally i made it to work..again ran theme patcher..nw i got ur style workin..its really awesome..

and reg the scrsaver i jus got it thru an vista transformation pack..when i installed it it came wit some cool scrsavers..i jus copied the scrsaver and want it to knw hw to show the scr saver in the scrsaver tab..
 
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Vishal Gupta

Vishal Gupta

Microsoft MVP
Glad to know u got it working. ;)

Reg. to Screensaver, copy them to "%windir%\System32\" folder and it should work. :)
 
dreams

dreams

Gracias Senor
Vishal Gupta said:
Glad to know u got it working. ;)

Reg. to Screensaver, copy them to "%windir%\System32\" folder and it should work. :)
Click to expand...

Stil no go..also i hv loads of scrsavers shown in the dropdown menu in scrsavers tab..some of them doesnt seems to work..somewhr sumthin is corrupt..
 
ramprasad

ramprasad

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vishal,
I want to change only the start button from the normal one to a round one.

I cam across a software, which just overlays on top of it. but I need to make it rather permanent...

Can u ls help
 
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Vishal Gupta

Vishal Gupta

Microsoft MVP
^^ For it u hv to edit the Windows theme (msstyles file) in Resource Hacker.
What u need is, just replace the Start Button BITMAP from ur customized BITMAP.
 
ramprasad

ramprasad

In the zone
exactly.....
but I have a normal start button now....
If I just replace it, then can get as shown in that screenshot or do I have to edit the task bar also...?
 
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Vishal Gupta

Vishal Gupta

Microsoft MVP
The link I posted above contains my "VistaVG RTM" theme. It'll change ur XP theme to Vista theme and u'll get the exact startmenu and taskbar as shown in the screenshot. ;)
 
ramprasad

ramprasad

In the zone
VIshal,

I am not able to extract the Start menu bitmap from ur style..
I am not able to locate the bitmap itself

Hope u dont mind helping me
 
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