RiotManhattan Posted February 14, 2002 Share Posted February 14, 2002 Hi, I just have a very simple question to ask, I have installed Windowblinds 3.1 and Skin Studio 1.6, but all I want to do it to change the color of my start menu into some other color. I dont know how to change it with using Skinstudio or tweaking into registery. Everything else stays the same, I'm using the silver theme, just to change the color of the whole (green) start button? Please help me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenreaper Posted February 14, 2002 Share Posted February 14, 2002 You could just go to http://www.wincustomize.com/skins.asp?wp=2...ding&library=23 and get XPTutorial, which is a skin that does exactly this (assuming you have the the registered version of WindowBlinds that does colouring). If you want to do it yourself, or don't have the registered version, just look in SkinStudio to find the bitmap that's used for the XP start button for your skin, then open it up in PSP or another editor and change the colour, save, and reload the skin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RiotManhattan Posted February 14, 2002 Author Share Posted February 14, 2002 Thanks for your answer, and what about, changing the color of the start menu, without using any software like windowblinds, is there any way to find the bmp in the windows directory and edit it with photoshop and save it again, because i think with the silver theme, there should be another color, but not green on the start menu. Maybe there is a registery file or something else, can you help me about this? Thank you again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenreaper Posted February 14, 2002 Share Posted February 14, 2002 You want to edit the msstyles included with Windows. However, MS has signed those styles - you *can* edit them, but they then won't work because the signature won't match. So the two solutions are use WindowBlinds or get a cracked uxtheme DLL from somewhere, install it in safe mode and then extract the bitmaps with resource hacker, edit them and put them back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raw_mustard Posted February 16, 2002 Share Posted February 16, 2002 Just take a visit to TG Soft, and have a look around there. All your questions will be answered. http://www.tgtsoft.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fury161 Posted February 16, 2002 Share Posted February 16, 2002 www.tgtsoft.com has a free hacked uxtheme.dll that you can grab and then run whatever theme or modified skin variant you want without any other software running it for you.;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RiotManhattan Posted February 16, 2002 Author Share Posted February 16, 2002 thanks for your help :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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