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re: Question about 'Customize Windows XP Styles'
Wednesday, March 23, 2005 at 5:37 am
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Posted by raiden22006 (1 messages posted)


hey im trying to do the same thing, ive gotten pretty far. Ive edited the explorer.exe with reshack and ive even taken dll files from my old computer and downloaded some just to get icons such as the classic my documents icon and explorer icon. im not done yet but this is what it looks like so far. im going for the windows 95 look first.


On Tuesday, January 8, 2002 at 11:10 pm, Gabriel wrote:
>I have a question about costumizing WinXp
>
>I want it to look EXACTLY like 98 or Win2K Pro
>Window blinds only go's so far. (I want to change ALL the cartooney folder icons
>in the drives)
>I had some minor success manually importing doc.dll
>from the sytem and sytem32 files from 98 And other various file associated with Icons.
>What i need to know is this(And if it is possible0
>What do i need to import from win 98 to get XP to look Just like 98 or win2k (Toolbars
>windows folder icons desktop icons location of control panel ETC)
>Or what i may need to import from win2k SInce they have the same core source code
>And if this is even possible. (Yes i am an extreme power user ;) lol
>I hope there is someone out there That is "techie" enough to help me. I can be reached
>at Psilaxs@hotmail.com
>
>Any Info would be greatly appriciated.
>
>P.S I am not talking about just a mere skinning for XP, but a total rework of the
>interface to make it represent the afformentioned Operating systems.
>Thanks again.
>
>Best Regards
>
>


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Question about 'Customize Windows XP Styles' (Gabriel: Tuesday, January 8, 2002 at 11:10 pm)

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-Question about 'Customize Windows XP Styles' (Gabriel: Tue, Jan 8, 2002, 11:10 pm)
*re: Question about 'Customize Windows XP Styles' (John Smith: Wed, Jan 9, 2002, 8:22 pm)
*re: Question about 'Customize Windows XP Styles' (Nick: Thu, Jan 24, 2002, 3:57 am)
-re: Question about 'Customize Windows XP Styles' (Creekin: Thu, Mar 28, 2002, 6:52 am)
-re: Question about 'Customize Windows XP Styles' (Creekin: Thu, Mar 28, 2002, 7:03 am)
-re: Question about 'Customize Windows XP Styles' (Gabriel: Fri, Apr 19, 2002, 11:55 am)
*re: Question about 'Customize Windows XP Styles' (cn: Tue, Oct 22, 2002, 11:56 am)
*re: Question about 'Customize Windows XP Styles' (kat: Mon, Feb 17, 2003, 4:05 am)
*re: Question about 'Customize Windows XP Styles' (Frank Klein: Thu, Mar 6, 2003, 8:27 am)
*re: Question about 'Customize Windows XP Styles' (mac: Tue, Apr 1, 2003, 8:28 am)
*re: Question about 'Customize Windows XP Styles' (MCSE: Thu, Sep 4, 2003, 2:36 pm)
*re: Question about 'Customize Windows XP Styles' (Art Adams: Mon, Feb 2, 2004, 5:43 am)
*re: Question about 'Customize Windows XP Styles' (bestman330: Wed, May 12, 2004, 10:58 pm)
*re: Question about 'Customize Windows XP Styles' (raiden22006: Wed, Mar 23, 2005, 5:37 am)
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