[Shell Patcher] Inexperience


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  • 2 months later...
Very nice, thanks for this. Hopefully it'll see an update (mainly a bootscreen).

That would be wicked. I'm still using this pack.. I like the oldschool look ^_^

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Very nice, thanks for this. Hopefully it'll see an update (mainly a bootscreen).
Indeed, that was one of the main things I'm working on. It needs some tweaks though, to make things as close to 2000y as possible - i.e., to get the caterpillar bar at the bottom where w2k has its progress bar, I'd have to do some hex editing that'd be hard to reproduce reliably.
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a few years ago i was searching for this thing, now i axidently found it, great. I use Whistler build 2250's Professional theme, whith this patch it totally rocks!!

BUG REPORT: had to use original movie maker file from backup, because it gave an error - didn't find transitions & effects

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There are a handful of boot screen making programs that will let you move the progressbar whereever you want it, and remember it doesn't have to be a catipiller its just a bitmap!

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I've spun up a quick release, no changes aside from the filepicker dialogs on SP3.

Honestly, I'm kinda curious to know how many people still use this - as SP3 is likely to be the last new comctl32.dll for XP/2003, unless there's some kind of feature request, this is quite likely the last update this'll ever get.

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* and if you're a double nutty lunatic, disable the User Accounts control panel and add an entry that starts Control Userpasswords2

How do you do that?!? That's brilliant!

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How do you do that?!? That's brilliant!
I don't think this broke anything, back in the days when I used it:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 

;Adds Userpasswords2 to control panel
 [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{98641F47-8C25-4936-BEE4-C2CE1298969D}]
 @="Users and Groups"
 "InfoTip"="Starts The Windows 2000 style User Accounts dialog"

 [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{98641F47-8C25-4936-BEE4-C2CE1298969D}\DefaultIcon]
 @="%SystemRoot%\\\\System32\\\\shell32.dll,111"

 [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{98641F47-8C25-4936-BEE4-C2CE1298969D}\Shell]

 [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{98641F47-8C25-4936-BEE4-C2CE1298969D}\Shell\Open]

 [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{98641F47-8C25-4936-BEE4-C2CE1298969D}\Shell\Open\command]
 @="Control Userpasswords2"

 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\ControlPanel\NameSpace\{98641F47-8C25-4936-BEE4-C2CE1298969D}]
 @="Add Userpasswords2 to Control Panel"

 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Control Panel\don't load]
 "nusrmgr.cpl"=""

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  • 2 weeks later...
probably the Change/Remove text, it should be buttons

That's not a problem with the patcher, that's a problem with not properly installed/uninstalled programs...

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it also occurs with the buttons on the side of the dialog, and every installed program

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Does it go away if you uninstall the pack?

I'm not sure what it could modify that would visually break things as much as you're describing and still leave a (mostly?) functional system...

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