Transparency & windows explorer

[DrStockz]

Hey guys, how would it be possible to make my windows explorer menus transparent while keeping the icons and text inside the directories visible (like this: Midnight Glass Nature Theme by ~MrGRiM01 on deviantART) I can't figure it out, i downloaded the midnight glass & nature theme from there but it just doesn't work correctly (unsure where to put the .dll's as well

Thanks in advance guys

 

[curiouso9]

DrStockz, can you post the screenshot? , did you apply the visual style? place it on windows/resources/themes/

 

[Product FRED]

Hey guys, how would it be possible to make my windows explorer menus transparent while keeping the icons and text inside the directories visible (like this: Midnight Glass Nature Theme by ~MrGRiM01 on deviantART) I can't figure it out, i downloaded the midnight glass & nature theme from there but it just doesn't work correctly (unsure where to put the .dll's as well

Thanks in advance guys

You need a to patch the DLLs that control visual styles. Microsoft has a security system in place that looks for their signature on visual styles, effectively limiting your selection. Patching the DLLs removes that security. It's not that hard to do it by hand, but safer and easier to use a program that does it for you. Use these:

Windows 7 32-bit
Windows 7 64-bit

It's completely safe and completely reversible. Microsoft has had this "security" since XP, and people have been removing it since XP as well.

 

[DrStockz]

Heres an image of what I mean, I've already installed the actual themes and patched the .dll's which need patching but for some reason the explorer transparency program (full glass) just doesn't work :/

 

[DrStockz]

I've been looking around further around the forum and it said that if you don't have a black background it won't work, I changed my background and still didn't work

 

[Bongo]

Did you put these 3 items (screenshot) in C:\Windows\Resources\Themes ?
You might try this http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/34579-enabling-custom-themes-windows-7-a.html?filter if you do unpatch the files first.

 

[GEORG]

Here is a TIP see and testing: http://www.sevenforums.com/projects/63796-transparency-project.html !!!

 

[Bongo]

I've been looking around further around the forum and it said that if you don't have a black background it won't work, I changed my background and still didn't work

Use this http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/282-window-color-appearance-change.html?filter do steps 1,2,3 then step 7 look at (screenshot) change that to black.

 

[DrStockz]

That was already black as default, I'm going to unpatch and uninstall the themes then reapply everything...

 

[DrStockz]

No success :/

 

[D3ftOn3Z]

What method did you use to patch the files?

Universal theme patcher or UXstyle core method?

 

[DrStockz]

I've tried both Universal theme patcher and vistaglazz that came with the theme...

 

[D3ftOn3Z]

Try using this app http://www.sevenforums.com/projects/63796-transparency-project.html instead of vistaglazz. This app will make your windows explorer transparent too.

 

[GEORG]

Try using this app http://www.sevenforums.com/projects/63796-transparency-project.html instead of vistaglazz. This app will make your windows explorer transparent too.

#7 !!!

 

[Prisoner]

Pff. My app can't reserve the icons. wish the code would let me...