re: How to change start button color in XP?? Friday, January 9, 2004 at 1:25 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by HaTcH (1 messages posted) I did everything this thread said, copy luna.msstyles into another folder as mytheme.msstyles and modified a bitmap, edited a .theme file and saved it as mytheme.theme etc.. When I went to load this as my theme, the preview window under display shows the recycle bin in the corner but just barely, and the application example shows just a black box With 1/2 cut off text in the title bar. The first time I did this, i just booted to Win98 and copied my modified luna.msstyles file over the original (luckily i saved a backup). When I booted back to XP, the View was of Classic Windows. I opened display properties and went to appearance to try and get to metallic, but when I hit apply, everything on the screen except icons went black. The second time I tried this, there wasn't even an option to change to the default Windows XP view. So I'm stuck. I later went to http://www.themexp.org/howto.php and read this: " Visual Styles In order to install visual styles, you must install TGT Soft's Style XP. This will allow non-signed/checksummed themes with custom visual styles. Otherwise, the edited visual style defaults back to Windows Classic. " Does this refer to all styles files? I don't want to get Style XP because I know there has to be a method of doing this correctly. Thanks for any help. On Saturday, September 1, 2001 at 6:07 am, POTF wrote: >Anyone have any clues how to change color of that awful green start button in XP?? Written in response to: How to change start button color in XP?? (POTF: Saturday, September 1, 2001 at 6:07 am) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] How to change start button color in XP?? (POTF: Sat, Sep 1, 2001, 6:07 am) re: How to change start button color in XP?? (len: Sun, Sep 9, 2001, 12:46 pm) re: How to change start button color in XP?? 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