hi, i read through the tutorials and did not see this covered or i missed it. i want to change the color of the progress bar that pops up when you are for instance installing something. it is green in color by default. what is that called so i can look for it? thank you
Still called the progress bar, and is displayed depending on what theme you are using, most custom themes come with different colors to match the theme itself.
You need to edit a .msstyles file to change it, and numbers for the progress bar varies from theme to theme.
Hope this helps.
thanx brink!!! finally got it to change, now i need to figure out how to change the start up sound. no matter what i do it stays at default sound even though it says my sound in the window. that is one knock i have about 7, PITA to change stuff to our liking.
to add to what brink linked too here is the place i found to change the progress bar to multiple colors, Windows 7 Theme & Resource Mods brink maybe you can add this to the tutorials somehow? it does work as i changed mine to red successfully.
The start up sound is kept in the system32/imageres.dll file, resource name wave, #5080. It's the only wave file in their by the way.
Startup Sound - Change in Windows 7
Last edited by Brink; 18 Aug 2010 at 15:48. Reason: added link
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Want to have Blue progressbars in Windows 7? .Look no further
it worked for me
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