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I want to modify the bitmap. This one in control panel specifically.
Last edited by Bitmapper; 25 Mar 2019 at 07:40.
I want to modify the bitmap. This one in control panel specifically.
Last edited by Bitmapper; 25 Mar 2019 at 07:40.
I'd like to learn more about the general location of some bitmaps and specific like I will show below.
And I'd like to learn how I can predict where I should look for the specific I look or will be looking for.
PS. I think the background of some places in the explorer are not bitmaps but settings for color. If so I'd like to know where can I change it
I don't know why it doesn't show the images for other people.
Last edited by Bitmapper; 25 Mar 2019 at 07:39.
First of all, the control panel one and the Windows Explorer sidebar are not a bitmap, they are just simply separated by a line which is generated on the fly.
For the Windows Explorer top bar, that's part of the theme and isn't stored in any specific Windows file. Search up how to create your own custom theme, that should help.
The thing is I have changed one at the control panel. But I don't know where I can locate the one I've showed on picture.
And I don't know where or how to change colors/bitmaps on Computer folder screen. Custom themes don't help here.
Last edited by Bitmapper; 25 Mar 2019 at 09:20. Reason: Misunderstanding
Are you talking about the Icons (short cuts) on your desktop and the desktop colors?
No, I'm talking about what I've shown on pictures. And those aren't clearly shortcuts(Icons) or desktop colors.
I'm not an expert, but those are "bitmaps" or backgrounds(colors) of explorer and control panel.
Thanks. "MyComputer" screen didn't sink into my little brain.
Just because some things use bitmaps doesn't mean others do.
For example, the glass sidebar that appears in the side of control panel items is a bitmap, while the separator on the control panel homepage you pointed at is generated on the fly. You would have to modify the code in order to change that.
I would guess the code for drawing those lines would be in explorer.exe but this may be quite a hard task to do - stuff like this is certainly possible though as I've seen people add a way to change the time and date in the Run dialog, adding custom context menus in Explorer, even people porting the Windows Sidebar code from Vista itself to Windows XP, gadgets included! So I would have though editing the "draw a line" code to draw a bitmap would be a bit hard, but not as hard as you would think. Just experiment a bit.
The problem is that you would have to edit the hex of the file using a program like HxD because the Windows source code is not public, meaning you can't edit with a high level programming language, only the low-level assembly.