Longhorn Slate

[Joni_78]

Hi

I was looking for Longhorn PDC Slate theme and those I found had many errors so I desided to make new. This should be 100% correct. U can download copy from Here.

Edited April 5, 2005 by Joni_78

[Windows X]

So large... Wondering what did you put in this archive.

[Chicane-UK Veteran]

Over 12MB unpacked!

[icecaveman]

Bad things about slate, it looks ugly when good when it's not semi-transparant or in much darker colors.

[Joni_78]

It's 7mb unpacked, theme is 1,6mb and wallpaper 5,5mb. Theme bmp's were .png's in Longhorn so I desided to keep those like that insted of converting to bmp's.

[kajouma]

Grea job, Joni_78! Thanks a lot! The 'theme' files (the 2k thing) seems to be corrupted: It crashes StyleXP.

Best,

Kajouma

[Joni_78]

.theme file is from w2k3 so it doesn't work with XP, it should be removed before loading .msstyles file, I'll fix that later.

[sandman45654]

Nice work Joni_78, using the theme now.

If you want to save some bandwidth you can use Winrar. It will compresses it down to 3.13 megs

[Ji@nBing]

Looks nice. Good work :)

[null_]

This is the best Slate theme I've seen reproducted for use with Windows XP & 2003. :D

NICE work. *Downloading now*

[Ivand]

Vry nice...

[Kane]

Suprisingly Nice. Can we get a shellstyle for this? an actual matching colour One and not like WindowsX Slate theme.

[raduking]

good job :)

[neostyle]

best slate ever ..... :D

but i wont use it , i have my panther themes :laugh:

[uniacidz]

Looks ok, but IMHO i dont like it too much.

But well done anyway.

[Joni_78]

Nice to hear you like it =). I packed those with WinRAR now, also added start menu flag. I might do shellstyle when I have more time. There should be white shellstyle.dll in XP windows/system32 dir, it looks pretty much like the one in Longhorn.

[Chris123NT]

Awesome work man. Nice to see that someone was finally able to make a slate theme for XP/2003 that actually looked like the real slate :)

[housegroover]

Wow, Great job dude!

[Oblivion]

Nice Theme (Y)

[edgarf28]

very nice, but why it hasn't a shellstyle??

[Johnnie Walker]

I've tried the search function but nothing came.

how do I change the flag in the start menu button and how to change the file copying animation?

ps. the theme is awesome.

[Joni_78]

In explorer.exe you need to replace bitmap #143 to change the flag. For the file copy animation delete AVI #160 and 161 in shell32.dll. You can use Resource Hacker to do this, and to replace I usually boot into windows recovery console with Windows CD and copy the files (copy c:\windows\new\shell32.dll c:\windows\system32). Explorer.exe can also be replaced in safe mode but im not sure about shell32.dll. I'll add patched W2k3 and XP SP1 files later. Also remember that file copy animation is far from final, it's not transparent so background color only match with Slate theme.

[ozgeek]

Very nice. I like it. Yep sure looks like Longhorm.

[M118LR]

Can someone post a screen shot or two of what the toolbars look like? My Computer or Control Panel or IE would be good. The reason is I have SP2 and can't run this Theme right now and I would like to see what the screens look like.

[wooty]

Very nice and usable :)

First time I use a slate theme more than 5 minutes ;)

Nice in Macromedia apps and Photoshop ! Exept the white application background...