Custom Themes, Icons and Start Buttons.

[HDRoadKing]

I applied the blue icon pack and love it! But any idea why some of my network icons didn't change when I'm browsing to my server? For example, my server has a share called "data" which is still the normal icon, but folders above it and under it are the new blue ones from the icon pack. Any ideas?

 

[Mark]

I applied the blue icon pack and love it! But any idea why some of my network icons didn't change when I'm browsing to my server? For example, my server has a share called "data" which is still the normal icon, but folders above it and under it are the new blue ones from the icon pack. Any ideas?

Sorry mate I didn't make the icon for that one, I think there were a couple that I didn't replace as I wasn't even sure where they were being used, I will make sure I change that one in the next pack.

 

[HDRoadKing]

No problem sir, thanks for the icon pack.....Excellent work!

 

[17mayis]

I found these themes on RedmondPie:

Windows 7 Box Art Themes

Windows 7 Box Art Wallpapers

Enjoy

thanx loved the ultimate 1

 

[comicbookguy]

works just fine thanks

 

[Delfofthebla]

Good tutorial & good source for orb icons

 

[mustangman16]

You mean a '.7z' file?, it's a 7-zip file.. It's another form of a zip file and can be opened with either 7-Zip or WinRar. 7-Zip enables greater compression and it's free! (it can half the size of stuff compared to WinRar).

Sorry, I should have mentioned about the file changes in the first post. (I'll update the post now.)

OK that makes sense. I tried to use extract now and it couldnt extract it so i thought it was corrupt or something. I installed both the blue and black packs on build 7229 and they worked flawlessly! I defaulted to blue cause it matches more of my theme then the black did but i love them both. Just one question, everything is changed to glossy blue except my libraries icon in my task bar. The library icon elsewhere is the glossy blue theme but it isnt in my taskbar. Anyway i can change that?

-stang

 

[Generator]

Just one question, everything is changed to glossy blue except my libraries icon in my task bar. The library icon elsewhere is the glossy blue theme but it isnt in my taskbar. Anyway i can change that?

-stang

It's actually a shortcut to explorer.exe, The icon packs don't update Explorer because it didn't seem worthwhile patching Explorer.exe for one single icon.
Mr GRiM kindly included an icon inside 'c:\windows\system32\imageres.dll' so people didn't end up left with one yellow icon sat on there taskbar. It'll need a new shortcut to explorer creating, the icon changing and then pinning back to the taskbar manually though.


To fix it here's a step-by-step of what you need to do:

1, Unpin the current yellow one from your taskbar by its right-click menu,

2, Create a new shortcut to c:\windows\Explorer.exe,

3, Right-click the new shortcut and go 'Properties',

4, Click on the 'Change Icon' button and point the window to 'c:\windows\system32\imageres.dll',

5, Find the new icon in the window list (5 rows in form the end) and select it and hit OK on both windows,

6, Right-click the new Explorer shortcut again (it should now be blue) and click 'pin to taskbar'.

 

[Mark]

Here's some Start buttons for the Nvidia fans.



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[17mayis]

Here's some Start buttons for the Nvidia fans.

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thanx alot i love nvidia i'm a big fan of it

 

[Mark]

Here's a couple more that IMO are better then my last so I wanted to share.

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[johngalt]

Those are nice, Grim....

 

[Mark]

Those are nice, Grim....

Thanks John, I'm using the second one from above but you need to apply them to see the true colour, as you can see they become brighter.



I'm pretty happy with this one I reckon.

 

[Zidane24]

Thanks John, I'm using the second one from above but you need to apply them to see the true colour, as you can see they become brighter.

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I'm pretty happy with this one I reckon.

I see God logged in to show off his start menu orbs

 

[Mark]

I see God logged in to show off his start menu orbs

LOL, yeah it's the first 3 letters of my surname Goddard.

 

[Zidane24]

LOL, yeah it's the first 3 letters of my surname Goddard.

ahh...I see...I was thinking it was funny you named your user account God"

 

[Cashis]

Here's some Start buttons for the Nvidia fans.

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Here's a couple more that IMO are better then my last so I wanted to share.

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Thanks Mr Grim they look sweet gonna use the second lot ya posted.

 

[mustangman16]

Thanks for the clear and helpful instructions lol +1. I have just actually done a system restore because I had no sound after using the the installer for the glossy blue icons. Was it the installer or some other reason that would have screwed with my sound? I might try to use the installer again and see if the sound isnt affected but i'm guessing the 7600 build and 7229 build have different sound directories that the installer touched? Lemme know what you think. Thanks again.

-stang

 

[Generator]

Thanks for the clear and helpful instructions lol +1. I have just actually done a system restore because I had no sound after using the the installer for the glossy blue icons. Was it the installer or some other reason that would have screwed with my sound? I might try to use the installer again and see if the sound isnt affected but i'm guessing the 7600 build and 7229 build have different sound directories that the installer touched? Lemme know what you think. Thanks again.

-stang

It shouldn't effect sound in any way what-so-ever

The only thing the installer does is replace the dll's with dll's that have had the icons contained within them edited.

Having said that, the problem with using dll's from a different Windows build is that some of the API's (Application Programming Interface) inside them could be different.

API's is how the system communicates with each dll, a bit like a command-line if you will, so if the API is different or not there the system can't talk to the dll for that specific task. One of the dll's could very likely contain a sound API.

 

[Mark]

Thanks for the clear and helpful instructions lol +1. I have just actually done a system restore because I had no sound after using the the installer for the glossy blue icons. Was it the installer or some other reason that would have screwed with my sound? I might try to use the installer again and see if the sound isnt affected but i'm guessing the 7600 build and 7229 build have different sound directories that the installer touched? Lemme know what you think. Thanks again.

-stang

If you want you can upload the dll's for you build and I will make some custom icons for your build and that should make sure you don't have any API issues or problems with your sound.

If you have a skydrive that would be best as they are too big to upload to the forum.