Start Menu Button - Change

umm sorry.. nm. my mistake.. i responded to a post on page one, didn't realize it was waaaay old..

sorry if i am dredging up a way old topic, but i have had difficulty following the instructions in the tutorial. Replacing 6801.bmp, 6805.bmp and 6809.bmp does not affect my start button at all, even after restarting. Wondering why, i fiddled around and found that the icons used in ~01, ~05 and ~09 are smaller than the icon for the start menu, and that the correct size bmps are ~02, ~06 and ~10.
If anyone could tell me how to re-size the taskbar so as to use the smaller icon, that would be great.

AClockWorkLemon said:

sorry if i am dredging up a way old topic, but i have had difficulty following the instructions in the tutorial. Replacing 6801.bmp, 6805.bmp and 6809.bmp does not affect my start button at all, even after restarting. Wondering why, i fiddled around and found that the icons used in ~01, ~05 and ~09 are smaller than the icon for the start menu, and that the correct size bmps are ~02, ~06 and ~10.
If anyone could tell me how to re-size the taskbar so as to use the smaller icon, that would be great.

The only way I know how to re-size the taskbar is to select use small icons in properties.

Yeah, tried that, but it don't alter the start orb. tried re-sizing the graphics to fit the ~02, ~06 and ~10, bbut it looked weird. will re-try in a sec

Did u see this?
The explorer.exe you want to edit is:

C:\Windows\explorer.exe

and not C:\Windows\SysWOW64\explorer.exe (for those running x64)

And for those who use the larger DPI's i.e 125% , 150% you need to change:

6806 - 66 x 198
6807 - 81 x 243
6808 - 106 x 318

I do it all the time on my windows 7 premium 64 bit and it is definitely 1,5 and 9 that u change.
Only other thing if u have system protection on,it will revert ur explorer.But it will also revert ur patched theme files if that's the case.
Please reply when u sort it so everyone knows what it was.thanx

I had a serious issue with using Restorator which caused me to have to do a complete reinstall. I just found this post on another forum which says that the problem may have been caused by Restorator itself! Be forewarned if you use this program that it might cause serious damage to your system! This post does describe a way to mitigate the problem however - disable shell extension integration in the settings.

restorator works fine, it's the images that are screwing up

great tutorial

Hi,
Great tutorial! I have had my start orb changed for many a month now to the SevenForums theme orb. I put my laptop on the other day, and it had gone back to the default one. I don't think it was installing updates or anything that affected it. The problem is that now my 30 day trial of Restorator 2007 has run out, I cannot change it back...

Any ideas??

Jake

P.S ClockWorkLemon, have you remembered to go into to task manager and end the process explorer.exe, and then restart it again??