Shellstyles, so many


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I always browse through the XP skinning forum, and I encounter the word shellstyle all of the time. People talk about the shellstyle being skinned, instead of just windows. Can someone explain this to me please?

Edit: ****, sorry, didn't realise I posted in this part. I'm an idiot. :pinch:

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shellstyle.dll is the file that controls the appearance of the common tasks pane in explorer among other things (e.g. add/remove panel, etc.). they come bundled with visual styles most of the time, and are installed automatically when the style is unzipped to the correct path.

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Yeah, I doubt it affects performance very much but I find a waste of screen real-estate. :)

PS the shellstyle also skins the add/remove programs thing.

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This thread has been moved from the Completed Visual Styles forum to the Customizing WindowsXP forum. Please reserve the Completed Visual Styles forum exclusively for theme authors who wants to announce the themes' availability.

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  • 3 weeks later...

its good .but i want to know more ,not just change the color and the images,which i dont think is hard work. i wonder how to change the layout

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if shellstyle.dll is the file that controlls the themes does the UXtheme.dll file just allow you to use them in the first place?

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