Custom Themes, Icons and Start Buttons.

[Mark]

Yeah I had the same problem as well when I started doing it, I found out I was saving them in the wrong format, you need to save them as a 32bit BMP, I was saving them as 24bit BMP and that's the same problem I was having.

Here you go I saved it in the correct format.

View attachment 2-6801-1033.bmp

 

[jc4gavejc]

oh thanks so much, i'll try that out! can you give +rep to someone if you did not originally post a question thread?

 

[Mark]

Work so far.

 

[jc4gavejc]

That works so much better! thanks again!

 

[jc4gavejc]

Should I post explorer.exe for people to use or is that pushing the forum rules? It would certainly be build specific though

 

[Zidane24]

Should I post explorer.exe for people to use or is that pushing the forum rules? It would certainly be build specific though

I don' think it is against the rules but their is alot of variables here that could go wrong...explorer is your File Manager and I would never trust one (not saying you did anything to it) modified unless it was modified by myself

 

[jc4gavejc]

that's probably a good asssumption to make; the restorator program itself being trialware might have inserted code into the executable anyway.

It seems like a solid program though and edits 64 bit resources. Think it would be worth $80 though? not sure about spending that kind of money on a resource editing tool

 

[blackroseMD1]

Just experimenting with some new ideas and wanted to get some opinions.

View attachment 21232

I really like the Ultimate folder without the blue on it. That would fit into dark themes nicely.

I installed the black icons, and now my Win7 looks so much better. Thanks Grim and Generator!

 

[17mayis]

hi its me again i have aproblem while i'm trying to oepn explore.exe i get this error mesege

when i clcik on yes i get this messege this time even i tried says no still same error

then click ok again get final messege

any idea?

i use windows 7 ultimate 64 bit by the way>

 

[Cashis]

Work so far.

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Looking forward to those Mr Grim they look cool nice work.

 

[Zidane24]

Alright Mr. GRiM your icons look great but I have a small issue...I installed your icons but it didn't replace the explorer icon...

 

[nuxxer]

Thanks for this its excellent. Mr Grim how did you save as 32bit Bmp I cant seem to do it!

 

[Mark]

It's included in the pack but the actual icon on the taskbar is located in explorer.exe so you need to change it manually.

To change it manually you will need to place an explorer shortcut on the desktop and right click on it and customize the icon with the new one in the imageres.dll, once you have the new icon on the desktop shortcut, unpin the old one and pin the new shortcut, job done.

 

[Mark]

Thanks for this its excellent. Mr Grim how did you save as 32bit Bmp I cant seem to do it!

I had to use Photoshop to do it.

If you want one changed then upload it and I will save it for you as 32bit.

 

[Zidane24]

It's included in the pack but the actual icon on the taskbar is located in explorer.exe so you need to change it manually.

To change it manually you will need to place an explorer shortcut on the desktop and right click on it and customize the icon with the new one in the imageres.dll, once you have the new icon on the desktop shortcut, unpin the old one and pin the new shortcut, job done.

I just realized about a minute or so ago that I could do that...the fix worked easily...maybe an addition could be made to the installer to automate the process or am I the only one that has ran into the problem?

 

[nuxxer]

ah weird.. when I change the format to 32 bit the save as dbox in Photoshop only allows me to choose a limited number of file formats such as exr..no bmp thanks for the offer!

 

[Mark]

ah weird.. when I change the format to 32 bit the save as dbox in Photoshop only allows me to choose a limited number of file formats such as exr..no bmp thanks for the offer!

That ones already the right format.

 

[nuxxer]

hmm dont know how I did that sorry for wasting your time..

 

[blackroseMD1]

I just realized about a minute or so ago that I could do that...the fix worked easily...maybe an addition could be made to the installer to automate the process or am I the only one that has ran into the problem?

No, I ran into that problem too. Thanks for the explanation Grim!

 

[jc4gavejc]

i use windows 7 ultimate 64 bit by the way>

thats your problem, you cant edit a 64 bit resource with Resource Tuner at this point.

Try Restorator or similar program