Post your customizations

[gaara]

n-ctrl, wut did u use to change the icon png from the avi?

[n-ctrl]

First I made a transparant layer in PSP with both png's on the correct location so that they covered the original images. Then I imported each frame of the avi in paintshop pro, I pasted the transparant layer upon the original frame and deleted whatever was visible form the original images (the grey folders). Then I merged both layers and exported it back into the avi with animation shop. Finally I loaded the completed avi in Gif Movie Gear and saved it as 8 bit RLE AVI.

Finally, I used Restorator to paste it back into the *.dll.

An easy way to replace the dll is to kill the explorer proces with the taskmanager; then choose "new task", and browse to the customised dll file. Right-click and copy it and navigate to the system32 folder, rename the original dll and paste the customised dll into place. Also paste it in the dllcache folder or service pack files folder (when you're running SP1)

Then you start explorer.exe as new task and you're done.

This works for most of the dll's but when replacing shell32.dll I had to reboot for the changes to take effect.

Customising the 4 avi's took me about an hour, but that may vary depending to your skills.

[n-ctrl]

I also changed this one

[martinsc]

My custom copy- and download avi's :

these are the best i've seen lately

[n-ctrl]

thanx, I'm still looking for a nice trashcan to make a matching delete avi.

I guess the slate icons from marvilla are the best I saw yet

[NeoMayhem]

My custom copy- and download avi's :

Those look awsome, want to hook me up with those AVIs?

Thanks ;)

[Etc.]

He already said he doesn't plan to release them :|

[whistl3r]

what a pitty :(

[NeoMayhem]

The avi in the copy dialog can be found in shell32.dll, to change the avi of the download dialog you need to hack shdocvw.dll.

I used ChaNinja's avi's to start from, and replaced the icons with some other png's.

Since I do not intend to release this, I didn't bother for permissions, though it's really not that hard to do, so give it a try yourself, all the info needed can be found on this board.

What can you edit the avis with?

[+longgonebn Subscriber²]

yea i would like to know too!

[whistl3r]

well i think adobe premiere is the right thing, correct me if im wrong

and this paintshop gif tool, should also have the ability to convert avi's into gif's or was it reverse? hmmm dunno anymore :huh:

[n-ctrl]

I edited the avi's with Jasc's Animation Shop; with that I opened each frame in Paintshop Pro, added the layer with my custom png's (resized), then deleted whatever was still visible of the original folder and finally merged both layers. That image was used to replace the original frame in the avi.

The only problem that I ran into was the fact that ChaNinja's avis had a grey background instead of a pink one, which wasn't transparant anymore. Then again I found the solution here on this board by opening my custom avi in Gif Movie Gear and saving it again as 8 bit RLE compressed avi (if I recall this right).

As I said, I made these to match my own visual style which is in fact a customisation of Sosumi.

I just wanted them to match. Now I'm using the Classix VS and as you can see, they are still looking good.

Since you all seem to like these custom avi's I might want to release them, I'll ask the real artists Chaninja and Marvilla, but what about the harddisk icon ? As I remeber well it's an OSX icon..

How can we arrange this without doing all over ?

[eze]

I managed to do all the editing with ulead gif animator. Still needs some cleaning up. Thanx n- ctrl for all the help!!

[n-ctrl]

well done eze, the folder icon looks good with the classix vs too.

but have all the uploaded images gone ?

[yeep]

wow...it seems quite difficult

[eze]

but have all the uploaded images gone ?

uploaded images?? :huh:

[aleni]

ever annoyed by a little "Disabled lan icon" in system tray when your client is disconnected from server?

here we go

A Complete task to remove an infamous "Disabled Lan Connection" Icon.

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Fire up reshack and open c:\windows\system32\netshell.dll

+Icon Group

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195

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*1033

right click on that "1033" and click "Delete Resource [icon Group : 195 : 1033]

save it as netshell.dll.mod

go to folder option, in View tab, tick "Show Hidden Files and Folders". and then untick "Hide extensions for known file types" and "Hide protected operating system files"

go to c:\windows\system32\dllcache

find netshell.dll there and delete it

check C:\WINDOWS\ServicePackFiles\i386 as well. if u find netshell.dll in there, delete it too.

after that you have to EMPTYING YOUR RECYCLE BIN.

then

go to start, run, type "cmd" and then enter. then push "ctrl-shift-escape" end task "explorer.exe"

in command prompt. type

cd\

cd windows\system32

ren netshell.dll netshell.dll.org

wait for a moment, a dialog box appears, click cancel, and yes.

then type

ren netshell.dll.mod netshell.dll

a dialog box appears again and click cancel and yes.

then "push ctrl-alt-del" and log off and re-log on

VIOLA

[Angel333]

my Run Box...

[no name]

My custom copy- and download avi's :

this one looks great! :p :)

[Elliott]

my Run Box...

And running is? :p :D

[Ikaro]

WIN +R

[Elliott]

WIN +R

I meant like his "War is not the awnser thing" and I go "And running is?" as a pun on words because of where he put that.

[n-ctrl]

Another mod :

[n-ctrl]

Some other custom AVI's :

Unlike the ones I posted on page 2, this ones are available for download :

https://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?act=...f=34&t=70490&s=

[Nautica]

Hey where did you get those icons mate

thanks :)