[Shell Patcher] Super Turbo Tango Patcher 6000

[ultimate99]

is the tango patch for vista complete yet?

im interested.

[vertigosity]

is the tango patch for vista complete yet?

im interested.

Not even slightly.

[piehouserat]

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.

[BlakByte]

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:

[MrFuji]

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!

[vertigosity]

AFIACT, the SP1 RC puts the OS into "for evaluation purposes only" mode - so, hopefully it uninstalls correctly or we'll all be feeling slightly less clever :p

[piehouserat]

apologies MrFuji lol yeah that little eval sticker is a little annoying and no known way of removing it on vista x64 although it can be done quite nicely on 32bit.

ah well at least the patcher is continued :)

[BlakByte]

Can't you do a try to make this work in x64 please.. Many people are using x64 and i really cant live without these icons

[redrumy3]

Can't you do a try to make this work in x64 please.. Many people are using x64 and i really cant live without these icons

i second that :p

[jimbo11883]

Looks like a cool project, but...

- Vista's icons fit more with Vista's design.

- I use x64 Ultimate.

Anyways, good work, my friend.

[BlakByte]

Looks like a cool project, but...

- Vista's icons fit more with Vista's design.

- I use x64 Ultimate.

Anyways, good work, my friend.

Thats called TASTE, and there's different themes.

[ultimate99]

So, any news?

[vertigosity]

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?)

[BlakByte]

http://www.start64.com/index.php?option=co...8&Itemid=72 :unsure: ?

[ultimate99]

Ok, I installed it, rebooted, but nothing happened. :s

[vertigosity]

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.

[ultimate99]

^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.

[vertigosity]

^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.

[+Audioboxer Subscriber²]

Can't wait till this works with SP1 RTM! :drool:

[ultimate99]

You'll need to manually get an elevated command prompt, and run it from inside that.

How? :D

[vertigosity]

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.

[ultimate99]

Win > cmd > Ctrl+Shift+Enter. cd '<where you extracted it to>', hack-o-matic.

Did that and still nothing changed.

[+Audioboxer Subscriber²]

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!

[MrFuji]

Did that and still nothing changed.

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

[ultimate99]

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.