Changing Windows Task Manager graph colors


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here are the 2+1 files i hacked (+file version)

---[1]. taskmgr.exe win xp+sp1 (version: 5.1.2600.1106, eng):

performance tab: pagefile usage value color: hex 00ff00 @ offset: 0000500F

performance tab: the grid: 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: 00001028

network tab: 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

---[2]. taskmgr.exe win xp+sp2 (version: 5.1.2600.2180, eng/hun):

performance tab: pagefile usage value color: hex 00ff00 @ offset: 000056CF

performance tab: the grid: hex 008040 @ offset: 00004DC6

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: 000054B0

network tab: graph line color: hex 00ff00 @ offset: 00001028

network tab: grid color: hex 008040 @ offset: 00007B0F

network tab: yellow vertical line color: hex ffff00 @ offset: 00001024

network tab: the yellow numbers color: hex ffff00 @ offset: 000078B2

  • 10 months later...

bfoons: You're right. The values are all the same. I just didnt know how to use my hex editor. Now I do.

Thanks, des! I have been able to change all those colors :). Is it possible to change the black graph backgrounds?

By the way, how in the world did you pinpoint the offsets where the colors would be defined?

Thanks again.

just did a search for each color codes (in hex) and changed it. (in a hexeditor) then i checked what color changed ....and so on... :cool: btw i tried with disassembler too, but didnt find any codes for this.

graph backgrounds? i dont know. maybe..but there are too many "000000" (black) instances in the hex code.. :no:

  :des: said:
just did a search for each color codes (in hex) and changed it. (in a hexeditor) then i checked what color changed ....and so on...

That must have taken a while...

Could reshacker be used help locate the background color? Like if I look at dialog/108 with reshack could anything about the graph "control" (1006 for PF graph, 1075 for CPU graph) tell me where to look for the color? Is there another way im not thinking of to use reshacker to help me find them?

thanks

OK I have some time to kill. I'm going to edit each instance, one at a time, of 000000 to say FFFFFF and see if it makes the graph turn white. If not, change it back and try the next instance...

BTW Heres mine so far...

taskmamager7dh.jpg

Edited by invalidbuffalo
  invalidbuffalo said:
OK I have some time to kill. I'm going to edit each instance, one at a time, of 000000 to say FFFFFF and see if it makes the graph turn white. If not, change it back and try the next instance...

BTW Heres mine so far...

looking really good! (Y)

good luck with finding the particular instance. let us know if you do find it.

  :des: said:
i think you should look for like this:

"28FA6D3D8200000027FA6D3D8C00"

instead of this:

"0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000"

Thanks, this helps me a lot! I have also found a pattern when dealing with colors. In every instance you found a color, the RGB hex is always followed by "00." So I figure I'd try looking for the black background in the instances of "00000000" instead of "000000." This narrows it down to 2841 instances. Hopefully it's one of them.

I have also discovered a couple interesting new task manager mods along the way... First, at 000066AE, changing 000000 to FFFFFF will make everything inside the performance tab be in its own little window within the task manager form. Another interesting one is at 00014A71, change 000000 to FFFFFF to make the bargraphs background (just the dark green lines) disappear (replacing the dark green bar with a black box would do the same thing).

If anyone is interested in helping me find the black background, let me know. If I could get a few people to coordinate and each go through a portion of the hex we could find the background color a lot faster than just one person going through thousands of instances.

Thanks all.

  • 1 year later...

hello, me also, I do not include/understand how to change the colors

I have to test with an editor hexa

I do not have the same number that you

I will want to put it in blue

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15 days trial

is what someone can say to me precisely how to make or would be nice enough for me to do it

Is not easy ......

thanks in advance all guys

Best regards

sorry for my english , i'm french

Joint: rapidshare link taskmgr french original

taskmgr french

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