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Anybody good at making XP Themes (msstyles) want to help me out?

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Stratum9

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Anybody good at making styles and have the time to possibly help make the most SIMPLE style out there?

That is, if it's even possible! All I want to do is skin my taskbar and start button. I DON'T want my windows, buttons, scrollbars, etc. skinned. I have a color scheme that I put together and I think it looks pretty enough without any bitmap enhancements. I just want to make my taskbar a thin, rounded taskbar with a simple icon for the start button - much like the MacOSX themes are sporting.

I thought maybe I could run StyleBuilder from TGT Soft and mod another theme by simply removing the attributes from everything except the taskbar. But when I try this the part turns black in the preview and won't display right when I apply it in Windows. The style won't even load if I remove enough parts.


I'm so agrivated about this right now! I was excited about XP's customization abilities when I bought it, but I'm now running the Classic interface with my color scheme applied but still having to look at that piss-ugly winflag next to the word "Start"! What I want is so damn simple, yet they've made it so damn difficult to achieve!!
 
i hate the start button too, but i took the lazy way out and started using the hacked .dll file, and have my taskbar on autohide.
 
Dammit I did the SP1 fix to get themes working, and every 30 minutes Windows XP pops up a message saying my system files have been replaced blah blah, would I like to repair it (referring to hacked mstheme.dll) Anyway to make this message go away?
 
Originally posted by: Stratum9
Originally posted by: BlinderBomber
try the neowin forums. They have a very large community dedicated to theming.
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is there an english version of this site?
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LOL!!! He linked it wrong. Its neowin.net. The server is down right now due to upgrade but stay tuned! It is a very large community that will definitely help you with that.

=)

bleuiko
 
Originally posted by: uncJIGGA
Dammit I did the SP1 fix to get themes working, and every 30 minutes Windows XP pops up a message saying my system files have been replaced blah blah, would I like to repair it (referring to hacked mstheme.dll) Anyway to make this message go away?
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Search for SFCDisable in Regedit and change it to ffffff9d delete all the files in c:\windows\system32\dllcache that should do it.
 
Originally posted by: Ne0
Originally posted by: uncJIGGA
Dammit I did the SP1 fix to get themes working, and every 30 minutes Windows XP pops up a message saying my system files have been replaced blah blah, would I like to repair it (referring to hacked mstheme.dll) Anyway to make this message go away?
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Search for SFCDisable in Regedit and change it to ffffff9d delete all the files in c:\windows\system32\dllcache that should do it.
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Thanks Ne0!

 
Thanks for the offer Neo, that would be great if you could look into this sometime.

UncJIGGA: I don't believe the registry change is enough to disable WFP in XP and 2K SP1. You also have to hexedit a .dll file. Detailed instructions can be found here.
 
huh? I have a hacked .dll in XP and I got the error once, hit cancel and never got it again. All I did was place the file in the dllcache folder as well so that it can't pull any other file but the hacked one.
 
Originally posted by: Ne0
I did the Noir Port I'll be out of town until next monday, but when I come back I could help you out.
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Thanks - I've been wanting something like that. I'll have a new visual style tonight. 😎
 
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