oh, thats ok man...
no offence taken dude

thanx for the resources.

Damian666

Ok. Bye man, will see.

Note: I've managed the attachment because of an unwanted shadow between background and 100.bmp.

Kontini


Your 1000.txt is empty in your download; should this be so?

For fun, my logon:

Edit: Since a contest has begun, I need to say that this is not my work. I downloaded it over a year ago and I am not sure where it is from.

It isn't empty. Check line 411!

ok, so i get the message dudes...
maybe we should do a sort of a contest, of login screens, the one that makes the nicest one, will get his name in the pack and
credit ofcourse for his work.

and we would have a nice new logon screen, like the idea?

Damian666

I didn't want to partecipate to a contest. , but the idea is good for the pack.
You could open a poll.

i know you didnt man, it just hit me as a good idae

so you think it could be cool huh?

nice...

damian666

Sure, I think everything that can improve the pack is good, not only your ideas.

yes, i agree with that man...
i have to figure out to do this contestm but i will figure it out somehow...

stay tuned

damian666

I found this one long time ago, and it the best one for me. I can't remember who created it, or where I found it.

Click to view attachment

Download

Cheers

ok, i got it man, thanx...
a very nice vista clone this is...

but maybe users want a less "old" logonui?
we will see man, downloaded, and recorded man

damian666

Mara-, what you posted looks like from Vistamizer 1.2.1 by Manuel Hoefs, if I remember well. The newer version 2.2.1 has a black screen, not this one. Correct me if I am wrong.

No, I never used that pack. I think I downloaded just logonui.exe, I did not extracted it from any pack.



How do you mean "old"? It is almost same as Vista RTM log on screen, clone as you said.

Cheers

how compatible is this with SP3 RTM? has anyone tested

yeah, ofcourse i tested man ...
and the good news is, that there is maybe 1 or 2 files that dont get patched right.
but that is all!!!

so it wont take me long to finish it up.
i will release a in between version, to make this compatible all the way with sp3

@mara, i meant "old", in the way that it is everywhere...
all packs have it, and i like to stand out personally...
BUT, if users choose it, i will put it in.

So to all users, apply your logonui that you like here, and when i get a piece or 10 of them
i will post a poll to let YOU guys choose what to include.

Bye guys...

Damian666

I want to advise another little bug when I was creating a new partition:

ok, got it man...

thanx man

Damian666

vista pack also patches uxtheme.dll right? want to make sure that is also ok
iv heard alot of people saying that they needed a new one for SP3

good that you mention it man, the uxtheme is NOT patched by the current pack...
i need to find a way to patch it myself, or get a updated uxtheme patcher...
which i both can not find till now...

damian666

Well, here's my 2 cents about boot and logon. I attached pics of how my XPsp2 goes from boot to desktop. With umpteen bazillion megahertz modern 2 core CPUs not much time is spent on the boot screens and with different graphics all over the place start up gets to look like a really bad cartoon animation so I'm using a dark (easy on the eyes) background for boot, logon and desktop. If anybody wants to try these, let me know where to upload the kernel, logonui, etc because it's all bigger than I can upload here.

Soambah

PS Oops I'll have to put pics of logon and desktop in other posts.

Here's the logon. The desktop uses the same background as wallpaper but without the center login rectangle. For some reason I can only get these two uploaded. Maybe there's a daily upload limit? anyhore, I'll try to put up the desktop tomorrow.

Soambah

ok, thanx man, anyone else?

Damian666

Here is the desktop.

Soambah

Hello I can´t get it to work to patch the I386 folder on the CD that is copied to hard drive.
So I have another question.
when it is installed is there any silent patch switch for the Vistapack.exe.
So I can patch the installed files silently not need to push the patch button also so it close Vistapack when it is patched.
and what is the silent switch for the installer.
why this is use it when I make my unattended win2k CD so I get this silently also I can restore it if I do it this way.

yes there is man, the switch for silent install is " /S" , but without the "" ofcourse.
and its so weird man, i tested it again, and see no problems what so ever...

did you check if the txtsetup.sif file was present?

have fun man

damian666

yes it is there.
it is probably something with my computer.

But im gonna try more until I get it to work.
I gonna test it on some other computers to.
But I let you know how it turns out man.

Thanks for a great software.
But it did work perfect on my installed machine.

cool man, and please let me know ok?

have fun

Damian666

@damian

Is it possible to install Vistapack with the silent-switch "/S" via WPI after a fresh, unattended XP-install?

Are there any more switches?

Best regards

cool400

well, it should be no problem man.
it can be installed after install, and thats when wpi is executed so...

and no, not more switches man.

damian666

This is the boot screen I have been using. I found it on the net somewhere and cleaned it up a touch to not look like only 16 colors.

it looks cool, but maybe a little to much...

but i will take it for myself man

oh and guys, the vistapack works great on sp3.
tested myself.

Damian666

p.s. only uxtheme doesnt work, but you can get my uxtheme patcher in this same forum

Here it is. It is not my work; I just cleaned it up. I could probably find the source if you really need it.

If you want the all black pallet versions, so that it doesn't flash on the screen, let me know. The black pallet ones are for when you hack ntoskrnl.

Also note that the progress bar position matches Vista.

What about real Vista boot?



I know that somebody will say that it is bad, but the goal of Vistapack is to transform XP as closest as possible to Vista, right? So you may consider this damian. Link from WinCert Forum.

Also, you might add OOBE patching to your pack. There are few nice OOBE's at WinCert again, here is the link. I prefer this one:



You may ask authors for permission there, I'm sure that they will agree.

Cheers

hi mara , thanx man, and yes you are right for the greatest part of it...
but a little freedom in the resource is needed man, because not all is found in vista.

but you have a point man.

i wont promise anything

Damian666

OK, I hope that your next version is coming soon, since I want to use it on SP3 and you mentioned somewhere that few files are not patched.

Cheers

Even the real Vista guys don't want the real Vista boot

ok guys, this is important...
there is a real bug in the 2000 version, it wont uninstall the files
i dont know how it got there, and i hope i can fix it for the people.

so untill further notice, the download for the 2000 version is down.

Damian666

i would like to report a major issue with patching comctl32.dll
i have 2 programs here that crash now after its patched

reverted all files, and the programs work again

hope for a new version soon, wouldnt mind using them again

i had that too, but i thought i fixed that, i dont encounter it anymore so...

ok man, thanx for reporting

btw, which programs are we talking about?

http://eliteforce2.filefront.com/file/gofe...DQ0MTMyNzg1MTI=

they are basically the same program

ok, thanx, i will research it man

Damian666

p.s. oh and let me guess... the new sp3 files huh?

yes, im thinking that might be the problem

yeah, thought so man...
i knew it was trouble

oh well, it was fun as long as it lasted
no problem, will fix it for the next release.

Damian666

Since Damian is offering others to aid in the overall look of Vistapack, I thought that I would throw in my personal Log Off / Turn Off dialogs as well.

I don't have Vista but I believe that these dialogs don't exist? So mine can be considered:

Wow Squeeto, these are really cool. I hope that damian will consider adding it to his pack.

Cheers

well, hell yeah!!!
those are f***ing great man

gimme gimme gimme

just post them squeeto, i WILL include those.

Damian666

Here they are. If it is too big, I may have to upload the 2nd on the next post.

#2

thanc you very much squeeto, it looks like your all over the credits man

thanx again.

Damian666

hmm

im not sure about this
but i seem to also have crashes in firefox which may be related to the combination of SP3 and Vistapack
it works most of the time, but will sometimes crash on exit

however, it doesnt tell me what makes it crash like the other program i was using
if i do catch it again ill see if i can figure it out