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cursors came with mephistocorugan's mmx mercury theme..

for those havin trouble.

0. edit the damn shell32.dll, basically just 'replace bitmaps' and matchin the numbers :D save as shell32.mmx in system32 folder

1. go to your dllcache(its hidden) and rename your shell32.dll to shell32.bak

2. go back to system32 folder, and you will see shell32.dll and shell32.mmx next to each other. rename shell32.dll to shell32.bak and shell32.mmx to shell32.dll. You will get 2 windows file protection msgs. Screw em hard. In the ass.

3. restart.

Originally posted by locke  

cursors came with mephistocorugan's mmx mercury theme..

for those havin trouble.

0. edit the damn shell32.dll, basically just 'replace bitmaps' and matchin the numbers :D save as shell32.mmx in system32 folder

1. go to your dllcache(its hidden) and rename your shell32.dll to shell32.bak

2. go back to system32 folder, and you will see shell32.dll and shell32.mmx next to each other. rename shell32.dll to shell32.bak and shell32.mmx to shell32.dll. You will get 2 windows file protection msgs. Screw em hard. In the ass.

3. restart.

thanks locke. that was the info i needed. :)

I edited my "throbber" (never knew it was called that...?) simply colorizing it to match MMX. Hellofa lot easier than redoing the whole thing. :)

Below are screenshots. I included two because I have a question: see in the xp-erience.org screenshot, the scroll bar on the left is skinned (using my theme's scrollbar) but in the neowin pic, the scrollbar is flat and ugly? Is that a vBulletin thing? Just curious...

mavis

Screenshot 1: xp-erience.org

Screenshot 2: neowin.net

Originally posted by mavis  

I edited my "throbber" (never knew it was called that...?) simply colorizing it to match MMX. Hellofa lot easier than redoing the whole thing. :)

Below are screenshots. I included two because I have a question: see in the xp-erience.org screenshot, the scroll bar on the left is skinned (using my theme's scrollbar) but in the neowin pic, the scrollbar is flat and ugly? Is that a vBulletin thing? Just curious...

mavis

Screenshot 1: xp-erience.org  

Screenshot 2: neowin.net

Yeah, it is kind of a strange name for the throbber :s

The scrollbars aren't skinned on some sites if they use css to match it to the colors on their site (which can look great in many cases).

If it really gets to you you may be able to write your own stylesheet to make the scroller always match you theme (I've never tried this, so it may not work).

Go to Tools -> General then down to accessibility -> format documents according to my style sheets.

Originally posted by mavis  

OK, here ya go, my throbber ... hmm, kinda sounds like bad pron dialogue ... lol

:)

mavis

Thanks!

Sorry dumb question: in shell32.dll it looks like the throbber bmps are 240, 241, 242, 245, 246, 247.

Should I just assign mavis's bmps in order (the numbers aren't the same though)?

Edit: nm.. tried that and it seemed to work.

Originally posted by DisinfectedDuck  

I'm glad you guys like it!

I'm currently working on replacing every icon in shell32.dll (At least every 16 million color one) When i'm done (Couple of days) i'll have screenshots, icons and a list of them all posted.

*bump* been a couple days :ponder:

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