Windows 8 Start Menu Modifier

By svnO.o
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I've never played with manipulating Windows before, but is it at all possible to change the DPI a Window renders at? The start screen chooses how many rows / columns is has based on your resolution & physical screen size, so I was trying to think of ways to get around that and let you add more / less rows & columns regardless.

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svnO.o

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The latest update can be found here - http://www.diablocra...Modifier1.2.zip

Features:

* "Fill screen, show taskbar" added as a position

* Ability to close app after settings are applied on startup

* Alternatively, you can use the -close param as a launch argument to have the app close automatically after settings are applied

Bug fixes:

* Task tray icon now closes gracefully with the app

* App now applies config at startup

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This is great. Now for my biggest annoyance; which is the fact that the Start Screen disappears every time I go to a monitor that has the Desktop UI. Think you can find a way of pinning it to a screen so it does not disappear every time you engage a monitor that has the desktop UI. There has been a lot of discussion concerning this issue on the MS forums of late and it looks like you may be close to solution here.

Great work so far!

Thanks

mrw

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drums4everyth

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just wondering. how do u stop this thing from working? just, "pre-opening this file" state, not changing its settings to make it look like its not there er anything. lol I couldn't figure it out :p

sry for the criticism:

I like this a lot! but id rather wait til everything possible can get customized (the background image, opacity of tiles, opacity of the start screen itself, custom solid colored tiles, naming tiles, tiles stack in a more customizable way). im lovin the taskbar combo! the tiles are different, but still stuck on an annoying grid. the dock is sweet (although I was hoping that when I went to 200px that maybe id cut off the 'Start' and 'Account Name' out, but it wiped the tiles lol). I really enjoy it, its just not full-fledged yet.

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George P Global Moderator

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It's 3rd party. It's using the win32 api to manipulate the start screen.

Which is interesting because it makes you wonder what types of changes we might get later on, either from MS listening to users or from tools like this.

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ryenus

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Thank you for this nice app! I just encountered a small glitch, when it's started via Launchy (64-bit), I always get the following unhandled exception:


************** Exception Text **************
System.InvalidOperationException: Operation is not valid due to the current state of the object.
   at SMModifier.frmSMModifier.Taskbar..ctor()
   at SMModifier.frmSMModifier.applyConfig(Boolean resetConfig)
   at SMModifier.frmSMModifier.getSettings(Int32 primaryMonitor)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Form.OnLoad(EventArgs e)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.CreateControl(Boolean fIgnoreVisible)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.CreateControl()
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmShowWindow(Message& m)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message& m)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Form.WndProc(Message& m)
   at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam)
[/CODE]

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