bd(1005):

hm. it seems wint's site is down. try google cache.

hey des,

thanks for the quick response, i think i'll try out this pixamsn, seems like just the job. do you know if wint's site is having problems. every time i go on there and click say, modifications > dialogs, nothing loads. i get the home page but that's about it.

cheers

i mean i successfully removed the menu icons, but the menu height remained the same and that bothered me because i like the compact menus more. i don't want big menu items.

bd(1002):

well. yes, and no. i mean i could reshack the older version of miranda very well. (2-3 years ago) then the msn stopped working. because of some security improvement or something in the msn protocol. then i updated the miranda, but i didn't like the new look of it. (the icons in the menus, etc. i even tried to reshack, but couldn't remove the menu icons and some things. just too many things has changed since.) right after that i switched to hotmail.com > web based msn. (i am casual msn user)

little after that i found a little app called pixamsn. by default it looks bad, but i could reshack it to a very minimal looking app. whit this tiny app you can only chat though. no file sending or anything. only text based chat.

http://noob.hu/2011/10/13/pixamsn.png

so i stopped using miranda 2-3 years ago.

hey des,

just switched from trillian to miranda. is there anyway to edit the chat dialog box, checked in reshacker but couldn't seem to find it.

also, is it possible to remove all the icons from the right click menus without replacing them with a blank.ico?
cheers

merlin(1000):

sorry. i don't know how to do that.

hi des,

is it possible to activate the thumbnail view of .mov/.mp4 files in windows explorer? google is not much of a help in this case. thanks.

anon(998):
you want to remove the tray icons too?

no empty space on the title because that way it would look bad. so i just replaced the app icons with a custom icon, not just a simple blank icon.

and yes. i removed / altered all the icons almost in all dll / exe files. (that's like 300 dll / exe files in windows + the applications of course) especially title icons, tray icons, dialog icons.

i don't remember where the explorer title icons are located exactly, but it is in shell32.dll. the yellow folder icons. don't remember which icon group though.

thanks for the link your site is full of many hacks/mods(feel like a kid in a candy store), i did the hack -looks fantastic- but was wondering about the tray icons ("there gone" - they are still there but i guess the mod made them invisible) also in the gallery i saw that you don't have that empty space that's from the icon (on some apps like firefox or process explorer that space doesn't exist).btw you mention that you've replaced the title icons, which ones ?(i only know that icons are stored in explorer.exe,shell32.dll,user32.dll); did you replaced all the icons in all the .dll's and .exe's in windows?

anon(996):

taskbar button icon hack
http://des.virtualplastic.net/mods.html#tbbicon

i couldn't find a solution for the title icons, so i just replaced* every applications icon and windows folder icon. *blank icon with text on it. like; ex, ua, etc

hello, i just saw your current desktop and wanted to ask you how did you got rid of the icons in th taskbar and title bar cause i've been searching a lot and didn't find anything.thank you.

xceed(994):

i see some things changed in that version. i cant find the correct code snippet for the hack. will try to locate it again later if i have more time for this kind of thing.

des(993):
this: http://bit.ly/rrdntn
this mod has a black toolbar, customisable seekbar (change colours etc.) and a different volume bar but i prefer the one in your hack.

xceed(992):

yeah. beacause the majority of neowin users are using win7 since it came out. what version of mpc?

hi, you seem to be not that active on neowin anymore. i need your help to get the volume bar hack working on mpc-hc be mod. can you tell me what values need to be edited?

anonymous(990):

i don't know / remember. + i hate pecompact because of this "there is no decompressor for this" kind a thing. try http://legroom.net/software/uniextract

despite when this uniextract gives an error it can decompress some files. i remember i could decompress micro torrent once with this. and micro torrent was pain in the ass to decompress. i mean there was no decompressor at all for that kind of compression. i still use 1.8.1 version of that because of this.

know any unpacker for pecompact 2.x that works?

rex(988):

no fix. at least i don't know how to fix this. :(

perfect. thanks, des.

only the height of the taskbar buttons has changed.
how to fix this?

rex(986):

here it is. http://www.sendspace.com/file/l1jod5 - sorry for the delay. i was just in a bad mood.

when you find out let me know :)

anonymous(984):

make sure that the image is 16x16px and try it with 16bit, 24bit images. or 8bit if necessary. maybe that is the problem.

hehe, sorry for spamming you.
ah, i see now. when i try to open a .bmp i get an error:
access violation to address 004d7680 in module restuner.exe. write of address 0195ffc0

rex(981):

oh sorry. too much messages on this board these days. :d i just overlooked it. will find it soon.

oh. sorry. my mistake. ehh.. you mean taskbar button? well. that has to be there somewhere as well.

have you discovered what the hex's in explorer i uploaded?

thanks again.

anonymous(979):

little help:
http://noob.hu/2011/07/17/untitled1.png
http://noob.hu/2011/07/17/untitled2.png

double click on bitmap, and window will appear. here you can browse for bmp's and u can replace the icons by one by one. don't forget to apply the changes otherwise it will not be saved. then of course ok button, then save the file.

hey, thanks. i have tried both pe explorer and resource tuner, but i still cant see how to change the taskbar icon.

anonymous(977):

you need to decompress the file first with upx or uniextract.
http://legroom.net/software/uniextract

it will give you an error saying can not decompress but don't worry it will.
now you can open in reshacker. but unfortunately the image and icons are in binary format, so all you can see is codes. (rcdata section)

if you really want to change it the easy way you need a tool called resource tuner or pe explorer. both are shareware apps. but you can try it for 30days or something.

hey, i was wondering if you could try and find the location of the static icon for this program? i have checked app data and i have opened the program up with reshacker with no luck.

http://www.metal-machine.de/readerror/index.php?action=tpmod;dl=cat1

cheers.

hi, des!

i uploaded my explorer for you.

http://www.hua.com.br/explorer.exe

rex(974):

http://www.sendspace.com/file/b8a3cx

for sp2? i don't remember and i cant find in my hack-log. maybe it is in somewhere in this msg board. i don't know.

if you are using english version, i can upload an original sp3 eng version of explorer.exe. i guess it wont crash or something. or if you want i can upload the hacked version of this. displaying no taskbar icons.

hi, des! congratulations for the work.

two things:

1. what is the hex to remove the icon from taskbar? (for the sp2 version of windows)
2. you can put the vs to download again?

thank you.

kickingk(972):

good idea. let me know your status on that project because it is interesting. back in 200x i was familiar with macromedia flash, i liked it, but nowadays i dont know much about it.

if you can just make a neat folder manager / explorer in flash, that would be cool.

hi des,

thanks mate! i owe you a beer! this will help me a lot to understand the settings for the vs. once i've reshacked a lot of my system files i'll post some screenshots for you to look at.

by the way, i'm working on a flash exe projector as a replacement for windows explorer (similar to a kiosk application). this means i can use my knowledge of actionscript 3 to create great effects, menus etc. i will run my exe instead of explorer.exe in the registry. it's a project i am starting - i will let you know how i get on. should be good!

thanks again,

kev.

kickingk(970):

http://www.sendspace.com/file/b1neuf

hi des,

thanks for the quick reply. that would be great if you could upload the vs. where would you upload it? my email or megaupload/rapidshare?

yeah, i've read through all this site about the hundreds of system files you've hacked. i'm fairly good using reshacker - i've modified various system files in the past month so that wouldn't be a problem.

it's just stylebuilder i'm having trouble with (the settings for exact 1 pixel borders, the margins above and below the caption text etc). if i could see your vs then i can explore the settings you used to get the perfect vs and learn from it!

by the way, you've also inspired me to learn hex editing aswell! :) i would be grateful if you could upload your vs - i love it!! sorry for any inconvenience caused!

köszönöm des. love your work.

kev.

kickingk(968):

at the beginning i used stylebuilder but after that i used reschacker and similar apps to edit the vs. but it is not just the visual style that makes it so neat an minimal. it is the whole system reshacked. (~300 files altered) i mean with the various default xp icons it wouldn't be so nice.

well, i can upload the vs for you but as i said without the altering your system files to match the vs your system wouldn't look like this.

des,

just a quick message to say how grateful i am for this site! i've learnt a lot from my recent visits to this site.

one question - i love your visual style - it's exactly how i'd want mine to look. how did you get your visual style so pixel perfect and precise? was it a mix of reshacking and stylebuilder? you wouldn't possibly be able to post it anywhere for me to take a look at (dimension scripts and all)? if not, i understand.

thanks and keep up the good work!!

kev.

janice power(966):

be more specific! where exactly?

my windows logo is altered to pink and ions and back ground is pinkish. can you hep

well. you could try to install it to a virtual machine first then copy the whole folder to your computer, then try to run it. but i doubt it would run if it needs .net and such things. :(

oh my,

well i never thought the registry hack would be that easy. i found it on the internet and it works perfectly - the installation programs runs. but!!! it demands a lot more programs:
microsoft .net framework 3.0
microsoft windows installer 4.5
windows feature pack for storage (blue-ray)
microsoft media format 11 runtime...

i am afraid my trial video program will literally remain a trial....:-(

hello des,

as you probably remember, i installed xp twice using the shrank iso version of xp made with nlite. yesterday i wanted to install a trial version of sony vegas but got a message that i have to install service pack 3 first. and this would mean more than 300 mb on the hard drive! is there a way to install this program without sp3? maybe a registry hack? any ideas?

thanks.

bd(961):

browseui.dll, bitmap 545. if i am correct.

hi des,

in an explorer window when you open the folders / search pane you have the title on the left and on the right you have the small x / close button. do you know where this icon is stored or if it can be modified in anyway?

cheers

des(959):
thanks. working like a charm :thumbsup

yovi(958):

uhh. sorry. the reg file was the problem. download it again:
http://des.virtualplastic.net/activex_dlg-off.reg

this first line was missing: windows registry editor version 5.00
and the windows didn't recognize it correctly without it. should work now. (log off maybe needed after merging the reg file and before applying the html file)

des(957):
i can't applying this http://des.virtualplastic.net/downloads/various_systeminfos.hta in my desktop (already changed to *.htm)
i already merge the reg file, but i still got "activex" message, can u help me?

well. i know sometimes this msgboard can mess up the links so i can't see the picture. just tell me what is wrong.