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thanks for the shot...looks good besides the quality of the start button... kills it for me :/

:( I really cant be rrrsed, as i dont use this myself, but as it seems quite popular i guess im going to have to improve the start buttons. Be a few days but i will see what i can do :)

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Great Mod man!

but I have a question. I followed you tutorial on making VS for vista (great read by the way. short and to the point). But I had a couple of problems:

1. I tested my understanding on the windows orb. after I extracted the right images I used photoshop to edit them, and just to make sure I used the alpha converter app too. This was fine. but when I put them back in the file, and then loaded the theme, I got the terrible white background. To check matters futher I went back to photoshop and cropped the relevant files so they'd have no empty areas beyond the image itself. This removed the background, but pushed the orb to the side of he screen, as now it didn't have that space that was defined in the image file.

2. I really want to use you thin taskbar template, but for some reason I don't see any difference between the normal and max transparency version. Can you maybe show me which resource in your template I need to edit (wither image or text) in order to make the taskbar a. matt looking b. transparent.

I really respect your efforts for this community by the way. You are a true sharer.

cheers.

R

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Quick question. Is this open to the community to mod?

I planned on doing something like this for my next VS. So would that be alright to download and modify?

Thanks to anyone who can answer this for me.

Try reading the thread. The answer is already there.

I really want to use this, I'd love a thinner task bar but I get this message from VistaGlazz:

"One or more of the VistaGlazz essential system files are corrupt."

Should I try re-downloading and re-installing the application or try a different method to patch my system?

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