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Since this thread has been resurrected...
I'm actually kind of still wondering if there's a solution for doing this with the Windows Classic theme. Yeah, I know the classic theme doesn't use msstyles, but I just find it hard to believe that there's no UIFILE to edit for Windows Explorer's shell with the Classic theme. Could there be some system32 DLL file it's in?
Anyone have any ideas about my last post? I just think it has to be in some dll file somewhere. Could it be in some DLL file like shell32.dll or ExplorerFrame.dll? I don't know, but I just think it has to be somewhere.
Bango, can you please do the same to a classic-like theme, like Classic AE please?
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Sorry to ask this again, but I really want to know if there's some dll (perhaphs in a UIFILE) I can modify to hide the address bar under the Windows Classic theme? If so, can someone tell me where it is and what it is I need to change?
AFAIK it was possible in Vista and Win7 Beta via registry but this possibility was removed from the final release, with Microsoft citing security considerations, that is the user should always see the location.
I think one can take the explorer files from beta to see.
Well I do enjoy messing with Windows betas, so maybe I'll take a look at that.
Anyway, I thought of something that could potentially work. I recall hiding the command bar by changing a UIFILE in shellstyle.dll and changing the padding for 'FolderBandStyle' to -28. This is kind of what people in this thread have been doing with the address bar, except in aero.msstyles (or another msstyles file). So here's what I think could possibly work:
Like I just said, the ID for the command bar in ExplorerFrame.dll's UIFILE is 'FolderBandStyle'. I'm wondering if I could find the ID for the address bar, add it to the UIFILE, and change its padding to a large enough negative number so it will be hidden. I don't know if this will work, and the main thing getting in my way of testing this is that I don't know what the ID for the address bar is. So if anyone knows what it is, please let me know. Could it be the same ID as in an msstyles file?
Sorry if this is kind of hard to understand.
Actually one can specify the msstyles file for any color scheme in the .theme file. I think one can create a color scheme for Classic theme and add a custom .msstyles file.
Wait, but the classic theme doesn't use msstyles, so what do you mean? To clarify, what I'm trying to do is hide the address bar in explorer with the Windows Classic theme.