[HEX-EDITING] locations in Vista Visual Styles

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See this Wiki in German

Vista Hex-Edit Tutorial - For Windows VISTA

This is a "How to" guide and a list of some Useful changes you can make to Vista Visual Styles and Themes.

with NEW Instructions and Edits

The tutorial is in PDF format and you will require a PDF Reader. Download a Free Reader from Here

Tutorial 0.4 contains Information for Editing the following

- Desktop Background

- Windows Title Bar Text Colour

- Max TitleBar Text Colour

- Max TitleBar Text Glow

- Max TitleBar Text Opacity

- TaskBar Height

- TaskBar Text Colour

- Clock Text Colour

- Grouped Windows Tab and List Text Colour

- Start Menu Text Colour

- Start Menu Margins (Top Border Width)

- Start Menu ?All Programs List? Background Colour

- Buttons Text Colour *NEW*

- Search Bar Text Colour *NEW*

- Address Bar in Browser Text Colour *NEW*

- Address Bar in Internet Explorer Text Colour *NEW*

- Selected Item Highlight and Text Colour *NEW*

- Tool Tip Information Popup Text Colour

- Hyperlink Text Colour *NEW*

- Navigation Pane Text Colour

- Nav Pane in Control Panel Text Colour

- Nav Pane in Control Panel Gradient Colour

- Application Background Colour

- Copy/Delete Prompt & Progress Background Colour

- List Background Colour

- List Text Colour *NEW*

- Basic Windows Media Player Background Colour

- Basic Window (Bottom Frame) for rounded Corners

- Windows Border Padding (Frame Width)

- Toolbar Text Colour

- Windows Mail Toolbar Text Colour

- Internet Explorer Toolbar & Tab Text Colour *NEW*

- Folder Band Toolbar Text Colour

- FolderBand Ext. Menu List Background Colour

- Info Bar Text Colour

- Windows Headings & Sub-Headings Text Colour *NEW*

- Prompt Text Colour (copy/delete/move/exit without save) *NEW*

- Navigation Pane Heading Title Text Colour (Folders)*NEW*

- Balloon Tip (Notification) Title Text Colour *NEW*

- Windows Text Colour *NEW*

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Text colour in Shellstyle Info Bar

I have finally discovered how to change the text colour in the Shellstyle Info Bar after days of trial and error

Its quite difficult to do... and even harder for me to explain how... so please bare with me.

Ok follow these instructions carefully

1. Extract the UIFILE/1.txt from your shellstyle.dll

2. Open the 1.txt with Notepad

3. Scroll down to the very bottom of the page

4. Click the mouse somewhere at the very bottom of the page

5. Press CTRL and F (Ctrl+F)

6. Type into the search box... <DUIListView

7. Tick the Direction... "UP"

searchea0.png

8. Click.. "FIND NEXT"

9. Ok now you will see A LARGE BLOCK OF TEXT below <DUIListView (see Picture)

wherehy2.png

This is the area which controls the text colours for the info bar

There are so many different settings in here i cant explain them all,

there are colour settings for each different part of the info bar

(e.g Title, information, file size, Number of selected items, mouse over etc etc)

Each setting can be a different colour (see the result in this picture)

theresultjb4.png

If in doubt then just change every single colour setting in this block of text

to a colour you want... That way you cant go wrong.

10. Save the text file and replace into the shellstyle.dll

Note: For change's to take affect you must apply a different theme 1st,

because re-applying the same theme as already used will not refresh the shellstyle.

Sorry my instructions are not very good, or pacific... but i dont know how else to explain this

Good luck! :)

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SORRY, I forgot to add in Step Number 10 in my last post

10. Now Scroll up and you will see two more blocks of text that look exactly the same...

copy the block of text you just edited, and paste it over these other two areas.

(basically duplicate the work you have already done onto different parts of vista)

11. Save the text file and replace into the shellstyle.dll

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TUTORIAL UPDATED 0.4

- Incorrect address for "Left Side StartMenu Text colour" *Fixed*

- Incorrect address for "Left Side StartMenu Margins" *Fixed*

- Windows Headings & Sub-Headings Text Colour *NEW*

- Prompt Text Colour (copy/delete/move/exit without save) *NEW*

- Navigation Pane Heading Title Text Colour (Folders)*NEW*

- Balloon Tip (Notification) Title Text Colour *NEW*

- Windows Text Colour *NEW*

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This is excellent my friend. Two requests for you :)

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[Edit] Found auto hide folder band (section 4.5)

Also, is it possible to use comments in the DLL's? So when im hex editing, i could insert a comment about what I did, similar to PHP.

Eg:

//Start black folder band
&lt;FolderbandModule
background="argb(0, 0, 0, 0)"
foreground="window"
/&gt;
//End of black folder band

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