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[dougiefresh]

The reason I opened this thread is because only moderators and admin have the ability to open new threads in this forum, per my request. The reason being is that the original thread for XP Theme Source Patcher became very confusing for our readers, including me. N1K created this wonderful forum solely for this project. Thank you, N1K!

If you would like to discuss things related to XP Theme Source Patcher, but NOT directly related to a particular thread, here is the place to do so. If you need to discuss things relating to a particular XPtsp theme, do so in the CORRECT thread!!!

XPtsp links to SPECIFIC themes:
Original XPtsp: here
Blue XPtsp: here
Black XPtsp: here
Purple XPtsp: here

NOTE: As far as I know, the original thread is going to be preserved so we don't lose any history about XPtsp, as well as a monument to the mess that the original thread became.

New Threads: If you want to create a new thread in this forum, please create your post in this thread and let me know which one it is and I can split the post from this thread. URL's are most helpful in this regard! Thanks!

Oh yeah.... I probably should mention that only new themes will get new threads in this forum and they will be moderator approved....

[bober]

Dougiefresh notes: Quoted post is from here..... Couldn't add to this thread because that post would usurp the original first post of this thread.

about current luna.msstyles being used...
startbutton looks a little cut off, so here is a new one, some of U may like...

also, the VS is overloaded with extra bitmaps for what is suppose to be different styles in it:
"Aero Green", "Aero Black", "Aero Blue", "Classic XP" ?
i tried to switch between them with no effect...
it could be in my case, can someone confirm styles changes or not ?
i may remove unnecessary bitmaps, if they are not being used, thus bringing the size from ~7mb to ~2mb.
here is amnesia.msstyles 1.71mb and nice (with the new startbutton)

i can confirm only 1 style, cause u didint incldue ure different shellstyle.dll files in ure Shell folder for Aero Green", "Aero Black", "Aero Blue", "Classic XP".

if you include in seperate folder thoses modifications i could maybe help and create ure dlls.

[amnesia]

i can confirm only 1 style, cause u didint incldue ure different shellstyle.dll files in ure Shell folder for Aero Green", "Aero Black", "Aero Blue", "Classic XP".
if you include in seperate folder thoses modifications i could maybe help and create ure dlls.

i was asking about how many styles are in the current luna included with XPtsp...

[bober]

i was asking about how many styles are in the current luna included with XPtsp...

ure not limited by what the original luna theme has, here ill upload ure theme that i modded just res edit the different shellstyle.dlls ...

winclassic is included in the msstyles

i was asking about how many styles are in the current luna included with XPtsp...

ow yeah i should re edit it cause there is some bulk, or atleast we should edit the other shel style in luna..i havitn gotten around this.



edit: give me a sec im uplaoding ure theme...

ok here are the steps, aero green is normal color aka default color scheme.
so u prolly dotn need to edit that shellsyle.dll cause it has ben generated from ure msstyle.
for aero blk and blu,there are also defualt generated from msstyles,so just res edit them to their specific color and ure good to go.

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[amnesia]

link to black and blue shellstyle.dll
http://depositfiles....files/n13t3yi9m

Edited by amnesia, 31 January 2009 - 06:28 PM.

[bober]

ok ,thx and i mis-red you,lol i edited ure theme for nothing.lolol but yeah ,again, ill have to edit xptsp's to make use of the other windows default themes and make them usable.

[amnesia]

blue and black are working now...
i can edit luna.msstyles to remove Classic XP
should i change Inspirat2 to XPtsp ?
and do U want to point to \AeroBlue\shellstyle.dll and \AeroBlack\shellstyle.dll ?
should i include new startbutton ?

Edited by amnesia, 31 January 2009 - 06:45 PM.

[bober]

blue and black are working now...
i can edit luna.msstyles to remove Classic XP
should i change Inspirat2 to XPtsp ?
and do U want to point to \AeroBlue\shellstyle.dll and \AeroBlack\shellstyle.dll ?
should i include new startbutton ?

ah well if ure workign on it yeah,thx.

[amnesia]

do U stiil need Calibri font reference in it ?
is Segoe UI font included in XPtsp ?
i would just use Tahoma

[bober]

do U stiil need Calibri font reference in it ?
is Segoe UI font included in XPtsp ?
i would just use Tahoma

which ever seems nicest,but Segoe UI is int eh addon version of XPtsp.

[amnesia]

here ya go XPtsp theme updated and with proper Shellstyle.dlls
http://depositfiles....files/pi106wtw5

edit:
this info was included in textfile\themes_ini
[Documentation]
DisplayName = XPtsp
LastUpdated = 01.31.2009
ToolTip = XPtsp
Author = XPtsp Team
Company = XPtsp Team
Copyright = XPtsp © 2009
URL = http://www.wincert.n...p?showforum=178
Version = 1.0
Description = Visual Style for XP
ThemeName = XPtsp

Edited by amnesia, 31 January 2009 - 08:06 PM.

[bober]

hey thx man!

now if only every one would use the addon version it would be way better.

[sT0n3r]

blue and black are working now...
i can edit luna.msstyles to remove Classic XP
should i change Inspirat2 to XPtsp ?
and do U want to point to \AeroBlue\shellstyle.dll and \AeroBlack\shellstyle.dll ?
should i include new startbutton ?

yes yes and yes please

[bober]

amnesia , here' s small token of my appreciation:

Amnesia player

dug out some old vb6 code i had made for school, its not perfect tho..

[amnesia]

amnesia , here' s small token of my appreciation:
Amnesia player
dug out some old vb6 code i had made for school, its not perfect tho..

oh, isn't that sweet Thank U

[bober]

hehaha

[Mr_Smartepants]

Wow, nothing says love like a bit of code...

[amnesia]

amnesia.VS updated to include single (green) Shellstyle.dll
http://www.4shared.c..._amnesiaVS.html
mirror:
http://depositfiles....files/o6vcuby2f

[dougiefresh]

I looked at through the original XPtsp thread and found the post that sTon3r made about an alternate AutoRun program. So I experimented with the program a little and found that it will launch programs using environmental variables as well.

So, what I was thinking as to wrap the new AutoRun proggie with the modified 7zip SFX module, setting a variable to the folder it was launched from. That way, the XP source folder is clean. What do you think?

Download link: Setup.exe
MD5: 4cb794539c62bdee0d06d12dca9d75c2, Size: 1.18mb



EDIT: If we include the 7za.exe and .dll, we can create the 7zip SFX on the fly using the backgrounds for the current AutoRun progie....

[bober]

yeah it does look nice. and yeah, it does make the root folder cleaner.

only 2 small fixes are needed:

[Item_011]
Caption=OS: %ProductName% %sp% Build %Build%|Product Id: %PID%|CPU: %CpuName%|Number of Processor: %NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS%, Processor Architecture: %PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE%|Memory: %MemSize% mb|Register user: %USERNAME%|Register org: %RegOrg%|Systemdrive: %SYSTEMDRIVE%

so then we would need 2 more versions for home and mce


ok i spent some time on making a mce autorun theme, i might re do pro and home so they also look the same:
mce setup.exe