re: How to change start button color in XP??
Monday, December 22, 2008 at 11:11 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by p
(2 messages posted)
Sorry, I had to make an addition to my original post.
Download uxtheme. dll for your system. Go to www.withinwindows.com/uxtheme-patches/.
I have xp sp3 so I used file
6.0.2900.558_EN.rar. Extract it and save the uxtheme.dll file somewhere besides desktop.
Go into safe mode and go to
C:\WINDOWS\ system32 and find the file uxtheme.dll, rename it to uxthemeOLD.dll.
I also had a file called uxtheme(3).dll and I
renamed it uxtheme(3)OLD.dll. Now copy that other uxtheme.dll file from withinwindows.com
to the same
C:WINDOWS\system32. Restart. Now download Resource Hacker from www.angusj.com/resource
hacker/. Use Europe
location. Extract it.
Now use the information from Mantis_1
Goto C:\WINDOWS\Resources\Themes\Luna and copy the Luna directory. Paste the copy
on your desktop for a moment and
rename it "Mytheme" or some such. Now cut that new "Mytheme" directory and paste
it next to the Luna directory so it'll be:
C:\WINDOWS\Resources\Themes\Mytheme. Also copy Luna.theme file to the desktop and
rename it Mytheme.theme then cut
and paste it back into the directoy it came from. You then need to open Mytheme.theme
with notepad and edit where it says
Luna change to Mytheme, 2 places I think. Save it.
Now go into the Mytheme directory and locate "luna.msstyles"... rename it to "Mytheme.msstyles".
Now use Resource Hacker
to open up your Mytheme.msstyles. Replace any or all of the STARTBUTTON_BMP files
that are located in the Bitmap section,
there are 3 different sets: BLUE_STARTBUTTON_BMP, HOMESTEAD_STARTBUTTON_BMP, AND
METALLIC_STARTBUTTON_BMP ... edit the pictures if you like, etc. Copy them into your
favorite paint program. Leave the
pinkish edges alone or not, you'll see. In ResHacker click Action, Replace Bitmap,
Click
Open file with new bitmap, find your edited bmp file and click replace. Click File,
Save.
Save the Mytheme.msstyles and now goto Display Properties / Appearance and you should
now have 3 or 4 listings under
"Windows and Buttons": (1) Windows Classic Style choice and (2) options of Windows
XP Style. One of these two Windows
XP Style selections is your new Mytheme.msstyles
I did all of the stuff above except for installing the uxtheme.dll and it wouldn't
work. Once I installed that it was smooth sailing. If
you want to change the text on the Start Button go here: http://www.theeldergeek.com/change_text_on_xp_start_button1.htm
On Sunday, December 21, 2008 at 6:22 pm, p wrote:
>Download uxtheme. dll for your system. Go to www.withinwindows.com/uxtheme-patches/.
>I have xp sp3 so I used file 6.0.2900.558_EN.rar. Extract it and save the uxtheme.dll
>file somewhere besides desktop. Go into safe mode and go to C:\WINDOWS\ system32
>and find the file uxtheme.dll, rename it to uxthemeOLD.dll. I also had a file called
>uxtheme(3).dll and I renamed it uxtheme(3)OLD.dll. Now copy that other uxtheme.dll
>file from withinwindows.com to the same C:WINDOWS\system32. Restart. Now download
>Resource Hacker from www.angusj.com/resource hacker/. Use Europe location. Extract
>it.
>Now use the information from Mantis_1
>Goto C:\WINDOWS\Resources\Themes\Luna and copy the Luna directory. Paste the copy
>on your desktop for a moment and rename it "Mytheme" or some such. Now cut that
new
>"Mytheme" directory and paste it next to the Luna directory so it'll be: C:\WINDOWS\Resources\Themes\Mytheme.
>Also copy Luna.theme file to the desktop and rename it Mytheme.theme then cut and
>paste it back into the directoy it came from.
>Now go into the Mytheme directory and locate "luna.msstyles"... rename it to "Mytheme.msstyles".
>Now use Resource Hacker to open up your Mytheme.msstyles. Replace any or all of
the
>STARTBUTTON_BMP files that are located in the Bitmap section, there are 3 different
>sets: BLUE_STARTBUTTON_BMP, HOMESTEAD_STARTBUTTON_BMP, AND METALLIC_STARTBUTTON_BMP
>... edit the pictures if you like, etc. Copy them into your favorite paint program.
>Leave the pinkish edges alone or not, you'll see. In ResHacker click Action, Replace
>Bitmap, Click
>Open file with new bitmap, find your edited bmp file and click replace. Click File,
>Save and now goto Display Properties / Appearance and you should now have 3 or 4
>listings under "Windows and Buttons": (1) Windows Classic Style choice and (2) options
>of Windows XP Style. One of these two Windows XP Style selections is your new Mytheme.msstyles
>I did all of the stuff above except for installing the uxtheme.dll and it wouldn't
>work. Once I installed that it was smooth sailing. If you want to change the text
>on the Start Button go here: http://www.theeldergeek.com/change_text_on_xp_start_button1.htm
>
>
>
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