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I have decided to do a little hack of my own - just for the hell of it after I installed Windows X's visual Style based on the Longhorn PDC.

Please see the screenshot for what I have done with it so far. You can download this little hack from the link provided. (Please dont hammer the link too much though as my own website Portal is hosted there too !) :D

the download is 3.2 MB (includes the hacked DLL files, and the original Bitmaps)

Should work with all Windows XP Professional SP1 builds ! - no idea with Home Edition sorry ;)

The text is still white on these versions, - still haven't found where you change them - but feel free to change the files if you know where to alter the colour for the text on the panels :)

Download: PDC Shutdown/Logoff Screen Download

(See Preview): PDC Shutdown/Logoff Panels (in WinXP)

Hope you find use ! - might be more useful for people who dont want to completely hack up their System files :)

*Found some minor bug with this thanks to Windows X finding them - I over looked it. But the 'Please Wait' Screen's Windows flag is a bit out of alignment. Can't figure out why this is the case. But the Logoff and Shutdown screens seem to be ok.

Cat.

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wow hell yes the margin is way off on the 'Please Wait' Dialog Screen while changing skins. The flag is out of alignment there. - But looks fine on the two other screens I was working on.

hmm I didn't take this into account considering I was only concerned with copying the Shutdown and Logout screens to use with your PDC skin Win X :) - but yes point taken on this. - I over looked it.

As you say its a bug :D - but if anyone can fix it then just go a head (I'm not sure how to) I only concern my self with the skinning part of it ;)

yep thats what I figured. I guess that they use the same images for the 'Please Wait' Screen too. I can't imagine why its out of alignment now though. I used EXACTLY the SAME Bitmaps from the PDC, and replaced the XP default ones. So yes its a shared resource ?

Maybe I should check the image dimentions on them or something - maybe thats where the problem is. -maybe they are different between the builds. ?

nope They aren't different sizes, So I started looking inside the DLL's again. I have found in the Dialog section for the flag this:

CONTROL "Flag", 20101, STATIC, SS_OWNERDRAW | WS_CHILD | WS_VISIBLE, 176, 0, 32, 26

Now for the 'Please Wait' Dialog:

CONTROL "", 2451, STATIC, SS_LEFT | SS_ENDELLIPSIS | WS_CHILD | WS_VISIBLE | WS_GROUP, 7, 8, 234, 12

would the numbers be coordinates of where the flag is actually showing ? and if so can the Please wait dialog section be changed so it matches the other values shown first here ? - I am reluctant to mess with this other wise, unless some one can say :)

Yes they are in the shell32.dll and also the msgina.dll files for the shutdown and logoff screen's :)

I didn't bother to alter them because they are the same icons on the 4051 release of LH. But yes you can just replace them via those DLL's with your own :)

Cat.

@EnIgMa-PenGuIn

THANK-YOU !

Been waiting for an answer on that ! :D

Will update the files in a few minutes. :)

Ok, now any idea's on how I change the white text back to black ? - I am assuming they are not controlled by any visual styles and is set else where ?

Cat.

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