Want to have Blue progressbars in Windows 7? .Look no further

Red theme?

Tried this, worked WONDERFULLY on my secondary system, and now I'm wondering if this could be made red to go with my main system... Red lights, fans, desktop, taskbar, everything... EXCEPT the progress bar! Any idea if this could be adapted? Thanks in advance!

Edit: Yes i did read the previous posts about it, but i didn't see any actual link or file pertaining to the red theme... thanks again!

 

this is very nice. Thank you. I wonder if there is a way to switch back to green if I want to? Is that possible?

 

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Not 100% positive.. it looks like icon #16752 in Shell32.dll.

 

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Thanks genuine555, x86.

I have just tried with the hue control on IcoFX, have yet to reload and see what it looks like.
I meant with the icon not the toolbar.

 

I'll look into the toolbar.
Will post back...

 

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Not bad at all. Will have to put that one in myself. And good call on IcoFX, didn't know about that one.

Didn't mind the folder band myself, so never bothered to look for it. It was just the standard toolbars that were driving me crazy. (Firefox and Visual Studio with the native Aero were just hideous..)

 

For the folderband, you need to modify shellstyle.dll

located in c:\windows\resources\themes\aero\shell\normalcolor\

Open it in restorator, and click on UIfile

For the default shellstyle.dll goto line 525, and look for this line :

<TemplateBackground background="Gradient(argb(255, 4, 80, 130), argb(255, 17, 101, 132), argb(255, 29, 121, 134), 3)" />

and change the values for argb. If this line is different than the example here, you need to do the following :

Type "Ctrl+F" and search for : Folderbandstyle

in the line below that you will find : background="argb(0, 0, 0, 0)"

change these values. For example if you want dark grey : argb(255, 110, 110, 110)

The first value (alpha) needs to be 255 !

Now "Ctrl+F" and search for : Folderbandmodule

in the line below that you will find : background="argb(0, 0, 0, 0)"

change these values. For example if you want dark grey : argb(255, 110, 110, 110)

Again the first value (alpha) needs to be 255 !


Save as...shellstyle.dll
Take ownership of the original file, and rename it to shellstyle.dll.bak
Copy/paste the modded file to the normalcolor\ folder.

Reboot



Gen555


EDIT : Looking for the fonts now...will post it later on...

 

For the font color of the command bar in explorer :


HOWTO: Change the explorer's Commandbar font color


As usual, you should take ownership and full privileges over "shellstyle.dll"


- open it in ResourceHacker

- in UIfile search for:
<style resid="FolderBandStyle">

- replace:
foreground="window"
with
foreground="argb(255, 144, 144, 144)"

- delete the 2 lines:
fontstyle="shadow"



This one I didn't find myself, so I didn't test it yet. Credits to TheSmurth at DeviantArt for this. He claims it should work. Gonna test this myself later on tonight to be sure. You can allready try it out though, and report back.


gen555

 

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Thanks for the instructions genuine555, but unfortunately for me it has not worked.

I did not have the line
<TemplateBackground background="Gradient(argb(255, 4, 80, 130), argb(255, 17, 101, 132), argb(255, 29, 121, 134), 3)" />

So have edited

<style resid="FolderBandStyle">

<Element

background="argb(255, 232, 232, 232)"

and

<FolderbandModule

background="argb(255, 232, 232, 232)"


Don't know why it has <Element between the lines in FolderBandStyle.

As far as I am aware it should be the default dll, so don't why it does not have that first line.

Any ideas?

Thanks again.

 

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Found what the problem was, there are 2 FolderbandModule lines in the file and for some reason when I searched for it Restorator jumped to the second one and that was the one I edited.

Anyway fixed now, thanks for your help both genuine555 and jbysmith.

 

From the looks, you are spot on.

Default shellstyle.dll is (I think) when you haven't applied UXstyle patch.
So from the moment you have modded anything, you will have these lines instead.

Try it this way :

First copy shellstyle.dll to your desktop.
Open with restorator, and change those two argb values to what you want.
"Save" (not save as...), and close restorator.
Now take ownership of c:\windows\resources\themes\aero\shell\normalcolor\shellstyle.dll
rename it to .dll.bak
copy/paste the modded file on your desktop to that folder and reboot.

NOTE : if you are using a different aero.msstyles then the default one (I.E. AeroDark.msstyles, or Aero2.msstyles), you need to replicate the tree structure. Like this :







Put aeroX.msstyles inside it's own folder in themes\ folder.
Inside create the tree as shown (shell\normalcolor\) and put a copy of shellstyle.dll in that folder.

Only when having that duplicated tree structure, you can use shellstyle.dll with a custom aeroX.msstyles alongside the default aero.msstyles.


Gen555

 

I cant rename the Aeromsstyles.dll in backup is not working for me what i do wrong ?