Windows 7 - Win7 Style Builder Problem | Problems Opening msstyles

For some reason whenever I try to do anything (create a new style based on Aero, edit a visual style from Windows\Resources), it will not show preview images or object properties for anything when I try to navigate to them, as shown below.

(ListsView -> Normal is selected, and should be showing properties/preview image in the right side panels; this window isn't the active one because I had to open Snipping Tool to take this screenshot.)

Does anyone know what is wrong?

That's normal for Explorer & Shell > Explorer > ListView > ListItem > Normal


do you have a properties and image at Explorer & Shell > Explorer > ListView > ListItem > Hot


Jerry

whatdy'a know.... I do have properties for "Explorer & Shell > Explorer > ListView > ListItem > Hot". It seems as though I was looking in the wrong place, silly me.

Do you know where the inactive/active window boarders are for Aero?

For aero
Windows and Caption Buttons > Aero > Dwm Window > Frames > Normal > Top, Left, Right, Bottom



For basic
Windows and Caption Buttons > Basic > Caption to SmallFrameBottom

Jerry

Excellent.

With Windows Style Builder I edited Bongo's 'No Glow 2' theme so that the inactive aero window has the same OPACITY:INT and COLORIZATIONOPACITY:INT as the active aero window frame.

Now I can see each window's title clearly in white instead of black, with text that doesn't have a glow around it and against a boarder that doesn't have a glazed/glass look, like Windows Aero does.

And I can still keep track of which is my current window by the glow on the minimize/mazimize/close buttons.

The only issue I have now is that if I change the boarder colors or un-tick 'enable transparency' in the normal Personalization window I go from working with an 'Installed Theme' to using an 'Unsaved Theme'.



Even if I save this (No Glow 5) in the screenshot, it doesn't allow me to create a theme file in the 'Windows\Resources\Themes' folder so that I could quickly install this onto other computers. How would I go about creating this as a theme?

Be back in a little in a few

I never thought about that good catch

   Quote: Originally Posted by lilsting10

The only issue I have now is that if I change the boarder colors or un-tick 'enable transparency' in the normal Personalization window I go from working with an 'Installed Theme' to using an 'Unsaved Theme'.

That is because you changed it

What you will need to do is after you save it in Personalization with Save as then be using the 1 you just saved then Right click and then Save theme for sharing give it the name of theme(No_Glow) save to to the desktop it's is just a .zip folder named .themepack download 7-Zip 7-Zip install it then Right click on the .themepack and use 7 Zip to extract to to your desktop what you need is the .theme file

and a copy of the theme folder in Windows\Resources\Themes just the folder now you have the theme folder and the .theme file for the other PC to put in Windows\Resources\Themes.
Jerry

Thanks for all your help. This is great, I can finally use Windows 7 in the way I have wanted since Vista came out.

The only issue that still bugs me is the horrid sky blue selection color in Windows Explorer.
The color itself is just a case of getting the shade right on the replacement colors in Windows Style Builder. If I were to change that to black (to match the window border color), how might I change the color of highlighted/selected files to white instead?

I actually really like that theme the way you modified it, please send me the theme after you changed the selection colour to (I'm guessing grey/black)

Sure thing, Faceofjoe421, although there will still be some selected items which show up as the default Vista/Windows 7 sky blue color because I'm finding Windows Style Builder incredibly hard to navigate and find what I want to. The Start Menu's hover-over color, for example, still shows as blue, but most other areas are mid-dark grey (tree nav in explorer, right content area in explorer, tree and content area in open/save popup box).

https://rapidshare.com/files/2197025..._Read_Theme.7z