invalidbuffalo Posted December 16, 2005 Share Posted December 16, 2005 Is it possible to change the colors in the windows task manager graphs? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dreamz Veteran Posted December 16, 2005 Veteran Share Posted December 16, 2005 reshack taskmgr.exe. see here: http://www.aqua-soft.org/board/showthread....ht=task+manager Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Von_Beard Posted December 16, 2005 Share Posted December 16, 2005 this is quite cool thanks :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
invalidbuffalo Posted December 17, 2005 Author Share Posted December 17, 2005 specifically, how do i change the chart/graph colors using reshacker and hex editor? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dreamz Veteran Posted December 17, 2005 Veteran Share Posted December 17, 2005 specifically, how do i change the chart/graph colors using reshacker and hex editor? i have not tried it yet, but the files are there. you can open them up and see how it was done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
invalidbuffalo Posted December 17, 2005 Author Share Posted December 17, 2005 I could change the bargraphs because they were just bitmaps, but the plots are a different story. How can I change the plot colors? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
invalidbuffalo Posted December 19, 2005 Author Share Posted December 19, 2005 Any help would be great... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
invalidbuffalo Posted December 21, 2005 Author Share Posted December 21, 2005 (edited) Could someone please at least start me off on the right foot? Is task manager all self contained, or is there another file associated with the plot colors? I tried emailing the guy a while ago, but he hasnt responded. Also the thread is from 2003 so it doesnt get a whole lot of popularity. . . Links would also be handy (couldnt find anything on google) Thanks Edited December 21, 2005 by invalidbuffalo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dreamz Veteran Posted December 21, 2005 Veteran Share Posted December 21, 2005 i can't take a look at it right now, but try this. download the file that was posted in the link and replace your file with that one. see if the color changes. if it does, then it's most likely contained within taskmgr.exe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
invalidbuffalo Posted January 6, 2006 Author Share Posted January 6, 2006 ok i downloaded it and the graph colors are changed so it is in the exe, but i dont know where. can someone please help me? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dreamz Veteran Posted January 8, 2006 Veteran Share Posted January 8, 2006 i can't find it either. i looked throughout the exe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dis Posted January 19, 2006 Share Posted January 19, 2006 i tried to figure out how did "The Unknown" (from aqua-soft.org forum) do that, but no succes yet. :no: damn. i tried to find the green graph's color 0,255,0 (in dec) and #00ff00 (in hexadecimal) but can't find it. :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chopyaedoff Posted January 19, 2006 Share Posted January 19, 2006 There is a part of the file that if modified in a hex editor will change the colours - I have no idea where tho. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
invalidbuffalo Posted February 27, 2006 Author Share Posted February 27, 2006 Can someone out there who's smarter than me tell us how to change the graph colors in the task manager? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asdflkjsdrhthfhrhr Posted February 27, 2006 Share Posted February 27, 2006 have you tried looking through taskmgr.exe in resedit or resource hacker? try searching for the rgb values of that specific green. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
invalidbuffalo Posted February 28, 2006 Author Share Posted February 28, 2006 (edited) Yes, but with no success. I have gotten as far as identifying the object that appears to control the graphs but I havnt found a way to manipulate them is resource hacker (dialog 108, CONTROL "CPU Usage History", 1001...). I have also tried opening it in a hex editor and searching for colors. I found the hex value for green (0,255,0) to be #00FF00 so i searched for "00FF00" in my hex editor and got multiple hits. I'll see what happens when i change them. OK I replaced every instance of 00FF00 (hex for green) with 0000FF (hex for blue) and now the cpu graph color is blue but it set a lot of colors to red (even the task manager icon!) and it made the kernel times graph green. Edited February 28, 2006 by invalidbuffalo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dis Posted February 28, 2006 Share Posted February 28, 2006 hacking taskmgr.exe colors (by des) hex values for taskmgr.exe win xp, sp1, eng: performance tab: pagefile usage value color: hex 00ff00 @ offset: 0000500F (...) performance tab: the grid color: hex 008040 @ offset: 00004752 (..@) performance tab: pagefile graph line color: hex ffff00 @ offset: 00001000 (...) performance tab: cpu usage history graph color: hex 00FF00 @ offset:00000FE0 (...) performance tab: cpu usage percent number color: hex 00ff00 @ offset: 00004E07 (...) network tab: graph line color: hex 00ff00 @ offset: 0000102B (...) network tab: the grid color: hex 008040 @ offset: 00007166 (..@) network tab: yellow vertical line color: hex ffff00 @ offset: 00001024 (...) network tab: the yellow numbers color: hex ffff00 @ offset: 00006F60 (...) hex values: 00ff00 = #00ff00 (green color) 008040 = #008040 (darker green) ffff00 = #ffff00 (yellow) change the values with your color. :cool: it works for me. if it doesn't work with sp2 version mail/PM me and i hack it for you guys. :) enjoy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dreamz Veteran Posted February 28, 2006 Veteran Share Posted February 28, 2006 threads merged awesome work, :des:. (Y) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dis Posted February 28, 2006 Share Posted February 28, 2006 ehh i made a mistake: so, the correct one: network tab: graph line color: hex hex 00ff00 @ offset: 00001028 (...) "00001028" instead of "0000102B" :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dis Posted February 28, 2006 Share Posted February 28, 2006 taskmgr.exe win xp, sp2, hun: performance tab: cpu usage history graph color: hex 00FF00 @ offset:00000FE0 network tab: graph line color: hex hex 00ff00 @ offset: 00001028 performance tab: cpu usage percent number color: hex 00ff00 @ offset: 000054B0 performance tab: page file graph line color: hex ffff00 @ offset: 00001000 performance tab: the grids: hex 008040 @ offset: 00004DC6 network tab: grid color: hex 008040 @ offset: 00007B0F performance tab: pf usage valu color: hex 00ff00 @ offset: 000056CF network tab: yellow vertical line color: hex ffff00 @ offset: 00001024 network tab: the yellow numbers color: hex ffff00 @ offset: 000078B2 okay it is for hungarian version but i hope it doesn't differ from the english version. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
invalidbuffalo Posted February 28, 2006 Author Share Posted February 28, 2006 THANK YOU!!!!! :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
invalidbuffalo Posted March 16, 2006 Author Share Posted March 16, 2006 finally got around to trying this... it looks like the offsets differ with the english version. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dis Posted March 16, 2006 Share Posted March 16, 2006 finally got around to trying this... it looks like the offsets differ with the english version. hmm interesting.. :unsure: because i tried with sp2 english version too and the offsets was the same as in the hungarian sp2 version. strange... :| Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dreamz Veteran Posted March 16, 2006 Veteran Share Posted March 16, 2006 perhaps the file version is different. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bfoos Posted March 16, 2006 Share Posted March 16, 2006 I just checked the offsets in the english version of sp2 and they have the exact same values as posted above. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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