I'm just posting the link, not the whole thing:

http://overclockersclub.com/xpstartbutton.shtml

It does work, and also mentions a way I've not seen mentioned before of working around WFP (filelist.xml). It doesn't seem to mention however that the change ONLY works if you Desktop is set for XP style (Luna, etc.) instead of the Classic style (like Win2k).

Grab Resource Hacker at:
http://www.rpi.net.au/~ajohnson/resourcehacker/

Nice link mate....

Regards,

BAH

Very cool link!

DONT TRY THIS!!
and if you have already press ctrl alt del and tell me what happens.. i started this.. then decided it looked s*** on the site.. so i pasted the xml file and the explorer file back.. and my pc now does something odd when u hit ctrl alt del.. let me know it might be unrelated.. funny coincidence though eh?

what does it do??

the menu under ctrl alt del is all messed up.. theres no top on the box so i can check out system performance etc.. or close the box either.. i have to right click on the green cpu usage icon in the tray and shut it like that :S

strange, well thats what happenes when you modify microsoft code.

So far so good nothing strange yet

Any1 else try the hack? It looks pretty cool, but i dont know if it will mess anything up like it did to someone else..FthrJACK i think..

FthrJACK is a very unlucky guy! First NIS f***ed his PC up, and now the start button utility. LOL

Hey i tried the hack and it works just fine...i hope he finds a hack for the color of the start menu..green is kinda boring...And the color of the taskbar..etc all these things are cool..

The graphics for the Luna scheme are all in the Luna.msstyles file in WindowsResourcesLuna directory. You can open this file in reshack (download from first post above) and edit the graphics in much the same manner as the startup screens, etc. There are three styles mentioned in Luna.msstyles, blue, homestead, and metallic. I believe the homestead corresponds to "Olive Green" and metallic is "Silver" visual styles. blue is the default blue style.

If you want edit the color or even change the shape of your start button then that would be the place to start. Look under the Bitmap resources for Luna.msstyles for BLUE_STARTBUTTON, etc.

its not the hack thats caused this problem.. it WAS just a coincidence as i put everything back as it should be!!

i wanted a black start button but realised it wouldnt be possible with this hack so i stopped doing it and put everything back.. i think its caused by something else on my system that ive installed or wiped off by mistake, ill run repair tool later and see if that fixes it.. if not its no biggie until the next format

The msstyles thingy is protected and unless you get a crack you cant edit or create msstyles files. I tried to make the start menue blue and it didnt work cuz of the protection..i found the crack but i cant replace the **** file... If any1 figures out how to replace the file i need to replace pls tell me...

I found this really cool theme on the Neowin Board. Notice: IT IS NOT MY THEME, AND IM NOT STEALING IT FROM ANY1. Timan made it... Here is a screenshot: http://timan25.net/images/logobluemod.jpg
And if you want to download go here: http://timan25.net/xp/bluetheme.zip

Windowsxp88, how would i set it up, i tried putting it into the theme folder 4 luna but it didnt work, i even created a folder 4 the new luna files and it also didnt work, do u have it work? and can u tell me how to do it?

I extract the thing to c:/windows/resources/themes/ Then i opened up the .msstyles file that was in the blue theme folder and click applied and that was it....

i can't get it to work either. :ohno

I've changed the color of my start button!

I downloaded the StylesXP beta 1 from TGT Soft and installed it. That by itself adds another theme to %windir%ResourcesThemes called "stylesXP_1". The stylesXP_1.msstyles can be edited with ResHack and isn't protected by WFP.

Download ResHack from the first post this thread.

Get StylesXP beta 1 from here:

http://www.tgtsoft.com/dloads/stylesxp.exe

http://www.overclockersclub.com/xpstartbutton.shtml

have fun!

I'd rather wait for a program that can easily change the wording and pic on the start button. (and not forgetting the back colour of it as well)

Thanx...with all these mods done to XP, if you ever have to reinstall XP, you won't even recognize it! LOL

Rick:D

deja vURL

Oops, didn't notice! sorry!

yea i thought so...but i just dident want to bust the chops of a Admin!
-drew

All the modes out there for XP are cool..

i knew about this a while ago but ive only recently been arsed to do anything about it so heres my start button. :brolly

Nice look jay_stealth, got me thinking of doing something to mine now!!!

my other had a mistake in it.this one is now ok.
=note when re-doing your start button you have to delte original-explorer.exe from c:windows to be able to save you edited start button...jay

i have try it !!


Work great for me !!

:nerves