[damian666]

Polls added, please vote guys.

Damian666

[prebenandre]

did you look at the new screensaver? still not good?

I think it is good, and much better than the previous screensaver! The question is if the Vista Icon Pack 3 screensaver is better.

and that theme thingy... i will see what i can do maybe...

Maybe we find something we could use here


those icons are something we have to find then, will fix that for sure.

Some of these icons could be found in the control panel. And some other icons can be discovered that we can use

logon is a kind of a personal thing, i dont like it, because ALL transformation packs use it...
i like it to be different, but i can always open up a poll to see what everybody thinks about it

Great

downloaded that pack, but all the icons i allready have but i will take the logon to check it out

Check the screensaver too, if you want :- D

@godan, i wont leave the flag man, its very XP-like and would clash even more then the orb thingy.
but your welcome to make me one vistalike

Well.. This is what I think about this:

1. The cursor in "windows explorer" has a dark background, and the others use some kind of grey or white. Is it able to change to that and still use the "cursor"?

2. There is a "weird black connection" from the vista orb and to the rest of the black background that you can see in the logon screen.

Take a look at the screenshots.

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[damian666]

ok, i checked the logon, but i really hate it man
there are much better look-a-likes out there...

screensaver is cool

i have to investigate about the "cursor" in explorer...

talk to you later.

Damian666

[godan]

damian666, on Jun 21 2008, 05:17 PM, said:

those icons are something we have to find then, will fix that for sure.

I believe those are in syssetup.dll

damian666, on Jun 21 2008, 05:17 PM, said:

@godan, i wont leave the flag man, its very XP-like and would clash even more then the orb thingy.
but your welcome to make me one vistalike.

The orb itself isn't the problem it's the black background of it that sticks out like a sore thumb.

This post has been edited by godan: 21 June 2008 - 09:13 PM

[Smiley89]

Hi damian, I must say this is a great pack, been using it since 2.0
And it keeps improving! I like the new bootscreen and logoff... But I think a more Vista-Like logon would be better (I voted to the poll )
There is only one thing I don't like very much, and it's the shortcut arrow. IMO, it's too big, in particular when using 48px icons.
So I edited the original one (shell32\30.ico), moving the 32px arrow to the 48px icon setting, and making the 32px arrow a little smaller.
This is how it looks with 48px icons.

I think it's better like this.
For TrueTransparency, I see no point in removing it, as it is included as an extra in the pack and users can choose whether to use it or not.
Obviously, they're only suggestions.

And another thing, if you like, I can translate the main Vistapack window in italian, al well as other resources in the pack.
Edited icon attached.

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This post has been edited by Smiley89: 22 June 2008 - 01:30 AM

[damian666]

I believe those are in syssetup.dll

Could be, but i do patch that file so...

The orb itself isn't the problem it's the black background of it that sticks out like a sore thumb.
yeah i know man... as i said, i will try something

@smiley, thanx for the icon. i will use that man , I too find it absurdly big...

yes, i know its a option, but what if users dont like it? then i dont have to include it anymore.
saves space and trouble

thanx guys

Damian666

[prebenandre]

Damian, you are the best (And I want you to be the best) creator of everyone out there that makes this kind of "Vista transformation pack" for older OS.
Vistapack is the best software that do this job (In my opinion). It is so full of resources, so complete, but yet not 100% finished.

I want Vistapack to be the king and the winner of all kind of transformations packs that make the older OS (Windows 2000/XP), look like Windows Vista.

And together, we will make it even better!

First of all, we need to find all the resources that we are going to use for the next version of Vistapack. And then you will have to implement it, and then release the new version.


So, here i found a suggestion for implementation:

"All-In-One website" which contains most of the Vista resources for Windows XP: Get the Vista look on XP

(Maybe there is something we can use from there..)

This post has been edited by prebenandre: 22 June 2008 - 05:04 PM

[Dilusion]

Hey Damien Great pack Just gets better True transperency seems to be a resource hog for me with most skins only one or two skins are more lighter on the cpu usage.

[Dave.Net]

Excellent, damian.

Now if there's something that keeps this pack from perfection it's RP.

[damian666]

well, i am glad that you think i am the best... myself dont see it taht way, but i am getting there

and about "finding" the resources... , its better to do it ourselfs man.
but if we cant do it other ways... we will have to use some others stuff.

And then we will have to implement it, and then release the new version.

we? lol... just let it be me ok?" i dont think you will get my patcher, no offence btw
but yes, i can use your and everybody's help on making it the king of packs

as far as i know, i am the only one that makes one for 2000 btw

that website, seen, been there done that
no good man but thanx anyway.

@dave.net i know man, trust me i know...
we have a other app in the making, taht enables 32bit on 2000, but its just not ready for the
worldwide release...

its a WPC project, so i cant say much about it ATM... just stay tuned man

Damian666

[damian666]

ok, how's this then?

Damian666

[prebenandre]

Better than the black one
But maybe it was too white.

Is it possible to change the color like the other one is, which is next to the white "background"?
Like the attached picture is?

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[mara-]

prebenandre, on Jun 23 2008, 12:04 PM, said:

Better than the black one
But maybe it was too white.

Is it possible to change the color like the other one is, which is next to the white "background"?
Like the attached picture is?

It's possible, but color you are asking will be changed with theme, so white is the best for now.

Cheers

[prebenandre]

mara-, on Jun 23 2008, 12:08 PM, said:

prebenandre, on Jun 23 2008, 12:04 PM, said:

Better than the black one
But maybe it was too white.

Is it possible to change the color like the other one is, which is next to the white "background"?
Like the attached picture is?

It's possible, but color you are asking will be changed with theme, so white is the best for now.

Cheers

Oh, okey

But what about thinking using the vista orb flag?

Like this ?

Doesn't it look like Vista?

This post has been edited by prebenandre: 23 June 2008 - 04:29 AM

[damian666]

yeah right... can you make that move?
i cant man...

deal with it

and mara is totally right.

that color is chabged by the applied theme so...

Damian666

[prebenandre]

damian666, on Jun 23 2008, 12:30 PM, said:

yeah right... can you make that move?
i cant man...

Why not?

Give it a try and let us look how it is, then?

This post has been edited by prebenandre: 23 June 2008 - 04:34 AM

[damian666]

and it wont look nice man...
to much different colors then.

trust me, let us keep it this way...

Damian666

[prebenandre]

Okey then.

Tell me, is this also a bad one?

This is the same as the original Windows XP but with updated colors.

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This post has been edited by prebenandre: 23 June 2008 - 04:48 AM

[mara-]

damian,


Just installed your latest version on my system and is seems that I'm having some very annoying problems:

- Logoff text is restored on reboot
- Your refresher is not working correctly. It totally mess up my icons in quick launch. All my icons become randomly replaced with some icons from desktop. It's not permanent replace, but I need to open properties of every icon and then to click change icon and OK. I don't replace icons, it's just necessary to click on OK button.
- My computer icon reverted to XP icon. Can I do something to patch it again?
- This one is strange, but as soon as your program patches IE7, automatic updates activate and want to install latest cumulative update for IE7. I don't know what you could do about this, except to create some exclude list on which users can add files (this also started to happens with your previous version and since last month IE7 cumulative update)

Hope you can do something about this problems. In mean time, how can I deactivate your refresher?

Cheers

[damian666]

****... i thought it was just my PC that was acting up...
i have that too with the IE7 stuff... **** m$

and for the iconstuff, just execute the refresher again man that will fix it.
its in the tools folder in the vistapack programfolder.
i made it new, so we could expect somebugs


go to the extra tab, and there in the force reloader, fill in explorer.exe, and press force
done

Damian666