hey guys,

i just found a wba style with a blue progressbar.


i'm not goin to use windowblinds, so my question is, if someone could edit that original visual style so i can use it with the patched uxtheme.

thanks in advance

damm it i was hoping for a MMS style

I want blue progress bar

Here is mine, Max glass, and blue progress bar>>>

Sorry guy's I posted the wrong one the other day~ LOL


Here is the correct Max glass, with blue status bars


1.83 MB RAR

How do I extract the progress bars from that theme to use in another theme? I'm currently using a theme posted here that's identical to the default aero, but with gray menu bars instead of that bluish color. I would love to have the blue progress bars though.

Hitchhiker, just look thru the msstyle with pe explorer or something.. btw i created my own vista style some months ago and the first thing i did was to make the process bar blue .. i hate the green

I hate the green too. How do i easy make it blue? Do i have to patch the uxtheme.dll?

Yes because you're going to edit the .msstyle

So what do i change? Please help me here.

Thanks, this worked fine.

However, there's something I noticed. Not all of the progress bars are blue in your theme. The "indefinite" progress bars (used on Windows Update, etc.) are still green. When I tried to manually change these and re-import them into the theme, they had white boxes around them. I'm assuming that this is the reason they were not changed, however, do you know of any way around this?

This is nice man, thanx.
Only thing is that I like the red X on active windows..makes it easier to see the difference between active and not. Any chance of a version with the original close button?
Thanx

Is it image # 630 you tried to change to fix the windows download page? I ask because I have never used a windows update site? I do see blue when I use windows update, the app. Not green see image here>>>>


Here is Max glass blue status bars with the red close button as requested>>>

Wow, thanx mate! You know, you should try to make something like this too. Love that startbutton!

i need the mms patcher for vista, is there one out there?


thankx

Is it possible to make a standard vista aero theme with only the blue progress bar? Just change then progress bar. Please?

do I need to apply a patch to use this?

I'm sorry but I'm feeling lazy to find out today

oh nice to see someone is still promoting the old wba theme i made ...

can you post the resources for the blue progress bar only?

Yeah, I meant that Windows update app. I guess I screwed up when I was exporting images. I tried again, and sure enough, it works fine now. Thanks for your help.

MMS patch files are here, Top is 32bit and bottom is 64 bit>>>
http://anti-tgtsoft.com/repository/uxtheme...ws%20Vista/SP0/

Or here is a Patcher app>>


Nice lil app that will help those who are challenged at all the ownership and permissions stuff>>>>


Contains a installer, or a exe file you only need to use the exe(smaller one) unless ya feel the need to install it. YOu also do not have to patch the style file with this app, you may only patch the system files, and then use the above style file(by renaming your old one in E:\Windows\Resources\Themes\Aero to aero.old) and then use any style file you want.

Here are my blue status bar images, all named as the should be inside rar file>>>



@Nero78, if you do not know how to edit your normal aero theme, PM me or post here and I will make ya a normal one with blue images. I just did not today cause I thought maybe ya had got it by now

I would like a normal one with only the blue bars. I tried to change those myself using Reshacker, but that did not work. Things have changed since XP I guess..anyway, if ya can make one I would be happy

Thanx

Here ya go @ ANDY_ROSE>>

Normal Aero w/blue status bars

Thank you my man!!

thanks a lot guys!
great work

Hey i feel stupid for asking but here it goes anyway. I downloaded and patched the MMS files. Then i downloaded

http://rapidshare.com/files/26927658/Max_t...lose_Button.rar

and extracted that. Now what do i have to do to use this theme. It's classified as a Windows Visual Style File whereas all my other themes are Windows Theme Files.

btw im using XP home sp2...is my problem i need vista to use this? cause i hate Windows Blinds (aka waste of ram) but i love the themes.

Thanks for any help or suggestions

A theme file includes a visual style, colors, desktop background, some icons, etc. They're only distributing the visual style. The theme posted at the very top is a Windowblinds only theme. The one posted later in the thread is a Vista msstyle. XP and Vista msstyles are not compatible with each other.

Also, I should address your misinformation about Windowblinds. WB is by no means a waste of RAM. In fact it has been proven many times that on average, WB uses less RAM than XP's default skinning engine. Also, since WB uses hardware acceleration, (and the default skinning engine doesn't), you can actually expect a better performing system with WB than you will using Windows' default skinning engine. That, and WB is capable of skinning so many more elements of the Windows GUI than the default skinning engine. I recommend that you at least try WB before you spread this misinformation on the board.

I have used windows blinds numerous times. It could be the trial version of WB or the theme/skin that I was using that caused WB to take up more ram and CPU than my current XP Skinning Engine. I'll have to try the full version and try out other skins to determine whether it was the trial version that was affecting the performance or whether your statement about hardware usage is valid. Thanks for all the advice. I'm not disagreeing, I just want to know your source (and credibility of it) or how you came about this assumption because it differs from my past experiences.


Also by patching my 'uxtheme.dll' files etc. what was that actually doing? I was under the impression that I was overwriting the XP version with the newer Vista files, enabling me to use the Vista msstyles.

@DeusAnubis

where did you get that WB theme? It looks pretty nice.

i got it from
http://anonym.to/?http://rapidshare.de/fil...efinal.rar.html
pw: 4gulli

Hey do you think you could upload that cause when I went to your link I got "This file has been deleted.
Reason: No download for a longer period. Inactivity-timeout exceeded." <-- that message and I really want that WB theme. Thanks!

That's odd. Did you disable the Windows skinning engine, or were you running both the default skinning engine and WB at the same time? This is the most common problem users have concerning system performance.



No, not at all. The default uxtheme.dll only allows official Microsoft themes to be used. When you patched your XP uxtheme.dll, you're just giving it the ability to use third-party (unsigned themes).

You can't use Vista msstyles on XP. You can either find an XP msstyle that looks like Vista (no glass or other special features), or you can use WB. Likewise, you can't use XP msstyles on Vista (unless you port them to WB first... which is reasonably easy to do).

Your best bet is to either find an XP msstyle that looks kinda like Vista, or use WB.

How might I go about disabling the Windows Skinning Engine, I made an attempt but I'm not very sure if I was successful.

easiest way is to go to start > run, type in services.msc and hit enter. Now, find "Themes", and change that from Automatic to Disabled. That should do it.

the new dl-link is (same pw):

download

This is a very nice looking theme can you please add .theme file also please ? as I dont know how to apply it

thanks

Send - me wallpaper please

http://img132.imageshack.us/img132/3834/snap2ao6.jpg

papaleguas @ gmail.com

There will be now theme files this is a vista style file. If you have vista you must patch your system files, I posted a app to help with that on page 2

Wallpaper "Aurora Blue">>>
http://rapidshare.com/files/28133599/Aurora_Blue_Wall.rar

Hi guy, thanks for link of wallpaper !!!



Brazil in forum !!!

My Vista is already patched, but I dont see in ur zip file any .theme file where is it ?

thanks

you do not need the .theme file.
What's important is the .msstyles file

When you extract to C:\Windows\Resources\Themes\
Extract it to a folder which has the SAME name as the ____.msstyles file.
In your display properties, you will see 2 Windows Aero choices (if you patched it correctly). Choose one of them and apply..If you get the default Vista Aero, try the other one (there's a problem with the names which hasn't been resolved I think)

I know that but i would have prefer to have . theme file as i have about 10 themes inside folder and it is painfull to test all to see whihc one is whihc as all have same name in the wondow

Where did you get all of your .theme files? I can never seem to find any.

Do you have Aurora Blue in widescreen? It'd be much appreciated!

Yeap here ya go 1900x1200>>>
http://rapidshare.com/files/28492474/Auror...e_1920x1200.rar

Thanks!!

could you please make another version with normal trans and without the red close button?
max trans is too much for me

it is here, a page or 2 back

Thanks for the blue progress bar. I love it.

Now, can anyone get rid of this ugly blue-green or whatever color it is and replace it with something nicer:

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Looks like I spoke too soon.

Something is wrong with my system after having used the VistaGlazz.exe. Now, every time I start Firefox or IE7, the computer hangs for about 30 seconds then starts to load a page. When I open a new tab in either Firefox or IE7, the same thing happens - the system just hangs and the HDD light remains on until the new tab is loaded.

It's not the internet connection because my other computer works fine.

So I undid the patches but the problem persists.

I'm dual booting so I booted to Windows XP and the same things happens in XP too!!!!

I have not made any other changes to my system other than applying the VistaGlazz.exe.

How can applying this screw up Vista and XP. I'm suspicious of VistaGlazz having some virus or something.