[Shell Patcher] Super Turbo Tango Patcher 6000


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Wow. That's some timing. I actually just bought myself a Q6600 + 8800GT machine... so I at least have the power and compatibility to let me try Vista for a few rearms. I'm playing with the SP1 RC, and this time around, I haven't REALLY found anything yet that makes me go "GRR! ARGH!" - I'm even managing to find a few things I really quite like. I don't mind Vista's icon theme as much as XPs, but I am definitely missing my Gnome-icon-theme setup :laugh:

I've got at least a week off for Christmas. So... don't mark calendars, but I'm back on the case.

:blush:

wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo this is gonna be great :D and yeah definitely make it sp1 rc compliant as most clever people have thrown that on their vista installs.

Hey, I haven't ;) although I'm clever....

Good to hear that the patcher is continued!

  • 1 month later...
So, any news?
Well, with the new year, my winter vacation ended and I didn't have anything finished. So, I'm back to not having the time/energy to finish writing a shiny new patcher (and there's long enough gaps between my programming sessions that I'll look at function definitions I've done, or even worse, half-done, and wondered what the hell I was thinking). I've been thinking about trying a slightly less ambitious design, which would let me get on with writing/drawing/making/converting reshack scripts and icons. I guess that means I ought to start playing with the Vize source, since it's open these days, but that means I'd have to set up a C# compiler, and maybe learn some C#. Not that hard in the grand scheme of things...

X64 support is out of my hands - I don't have anywhere near the amount of programming skill it would take to write a piece of software to modify Windows binaries, and nobody else has written anything appropriate, that I can misappropriate.

(really, I could have just said "not really" and been done with it... but then where would my passion for unnecessary verbosity be?)

Ok, I installed it, rebooted, but nothing happened. :s
I'll go out on a limb and guess you right-clicked on it and selected "run as administrator"? That doesn't work, it resets the path to your home directory, so unless you extracted it there, you'll have to manually start a command prompt, cd to where you extracted it to, and then run hack-o-matic from there.
^I didn't understand that.

I have the folder extracted and I just doubled clicked on hack-o-matic and it gave me a menu in dos, so I chose #2, then reboot.

You'll need to manually get an elevated command prompt, and run it from inside that.
Can't wait till this works with SP1 RTM! :drool:
I didn't have to modify anything to get it working on the SP1 betas relative to RTM, so I can't imagine SP1 RTM would be any different.
How? :D
Win > cmd > Ctrl+Shift+Enter. cd '<where you extracted it to>', hack-o-matic.
I didn't have to modify anything to get it working on the SP1 betas relative to RTM, so I can't imagine SP1 RTM would be any

Excellent I'll give it a go!

I just thought with system file changes something would need to be updated!

And you also have an English version of Vista? And does hack-o-matic give any output?

Yeah, English.

After executing hack-o-matic I get a menu to choose from, #1 being Gnome Theme 2 and #2 being Tango and the rest I don't remember. So I chose #2 and then goes through the process, and then at the end my computer reboots. That's it.

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