New Theme for Vista Beta2

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ronnyhp, what about this Start Menu

Its really nice but apparently isnt in any of the foer that you posted. Could you post something with it in it? Like maybe Fugal.

I love it being inset like that. Beautimous.

Try this one.

viXta-Jag

viXta-Jag Glass

Download: viXta-Jag

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thanks alot ronny. Pretty cool.

Do you happen to have a list of the bitmaps that youve found and dealt with so far?

I use “Restorator”, an app where I take out the bitmaps.

I take out one by one, the bitmaps I want to change.

Changes them, or make new ones in Photoshop.

Then I put them back again where I taken them from.

The bitmaps have numbers.

It’s easy with “Restorator”, you only drag the bitmaps out. And you drag the new ones back to the right place again when you have prepared theme.

In the first place, I had to find out which bitmap belongs to which part of the theme.

I used sometime to figured that out. :)

Microsoft changes the bitmaps in every beta version. Changes the size, the whole look, putt then in new places, and add more bitmaps.

That’s the fun part.. :D

But I have done skins for almost all beta, and some alpha versions of Vista/Longhorn, so I have good training now. :o

Here is a list of some of them:

799- Part of the title bar

816- Part of the title bar

825- Part of the title bar

829- Part of the title bar

805- Bottom frame

806- Left frame

807- Right frame

621- Part of the title bar

622- Part of the title bar

623- Part of the title bar

624- Part of the title bar

670- Start menu – All programs background – Not glass

676- Start menu – Main part - Right side - Not glass

677- Start menu - Line – Right side - Not glass

678- Start menu – Main part - left side - Not glass

679- Start menu – Nr. 1 - Main part - left side – Glass

680- Start menu – Background – search – Not glass

684- Start menu – All programs background – Glass

685- Start menu – Main part - Right side – Glass

687- Start menu – Nr. 2 - Main part - left side – Glass

688- Start menu – Nr. 3 - Main part - left side – Glass

689- Start menu – Background – search – Glass

707- Taskbar bottom and top – Not glass

708- Taskbar left and right – Not glass

713- Taskbar bottom and top – Glass

714- Taskbar left and right – Glass

853- Start button

854- Start button

855- Start button

667- Start menu – Shut down-log off button

669- Start menu – Shut down-log off button

You will not find every part in the “aero.msstyles”

I don’t know in which other files Microsoft has placed the rest of the bitmaps.

The glass bitmaps for the title bare is not there.

I wish I knew where it was. :(

Ronny

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Do you need to patch a dll before use of the skins?

To use this skins you have to replace your “uxtheme.dll” file in “C:\Windows\System32” directory, with the new one.

Then you have to replace you’re “aero.msstyles” with the new one. “C:\Windows\Resources\Themes\Aero”

You find all the files you need with the skins

That’s it!

Ronny

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