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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: Two Tone (Classic Style) for Windows 10 |
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Posted: Sun Sep 27, 2015 9:10 pm
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| Thanks mykou. :) Haven't been to site for awhile. These days, I do find skin a bit plain for myself. In Windows 10, the blur radius is quite high, which fogs up everything too much. The look makes me feel drunk all the time. Not sure if that makes sense. :lol: I tend to disable menu glass settings i... |
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Forum: Start Buttons Topic: [REQUEST] Animated graphic equalizer start button? |
| juniper7 |
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Posted: Thu Sep 17, 2015 11:55 am
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| Hey Zoni, pretty much anybody could do it, even you. Start out simple, by using the middle image. It's size is already 50 pixels by 50 pixels. Lets say you go for qty 11 frames, to make it easy. Do the math: Width=50 pixels. Height 50x11=550+1(the pixel code line at the very top)=551 So just open a ... |
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Forum: Start Buttons Topic: Animated transformers button. |
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Posted: Wed Sep 16, 2015 2:27 am
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| Transformers animated cartoon button. This is more or less, a test, to learn how to use a gif. I followed what Jcee mentioned months ago. "Download a gif, rip, and delete the background. Expect roughness". There are more low quality gifs, than high quality ones, out there. Guess, because t... |
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Forum: Start Buttons Topic: [Animated Start Button] Dragon. |
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Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2015 4:07 pm
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Replies: 10
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| You and the rest of the team at Classic Shell know it all, already.:) It was more for anyone else to try their hand at it. Even though there is no looping, it's still pretty cool how animation works. Would it be worth it, if enough people asked for it, to have a mini tutorial, on how to convert a Gi... |
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: Skin request |
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Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2015 2:37 pm
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Forum: Start Buttons Topic: [Animated Start Button] Dragon. |
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Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2015 2:35 pm
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| Animated dragon start button. Here is just the animated dragon, which can be used as a start button. Was kind of hoping someone else would learn, and do it before me posting it. I waited for awhile. :) It does not have any flames, as that really would take a lot of time resizing/syncing each frame. ... |
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Forum: Start Buttons Topic: [Animated Start Button] Flames and Skulls |
| juniper7 |
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Posted: Sun Sep 13, 2015 8:51 pm
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Replies: 3
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Yes, or else there will be just a wiff of flames.
As I said, I'm a newbee, so don't expect for me to know everything.  |
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: Skin request |
| juniper7 |
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Posted: Sun Sep 13, 2015 8:25 pm
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Forum: Start Buttons Topic: [Animated Start Button] Flames and Skulls |
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Posted: Sun Sep 13, 2015 8:24 pm
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| Animated Flames and Skulls Here is my first animated button. Starts out with a bunch of skulls for normal Hot hover is with flames. Too bad I can't make it loop. At the end or pressed, just burnt skulls. It was made already from Windowblinds, so all I did was put Ivo's pixel line at top, and do a li... |
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: Skin request |
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Posted: Sat Sep 12, 2015 1:40 pm
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Replies: 25
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AH! ..........A welcome change.
It's good to see some texture back in a menu skin.
Submenu looking great. |
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: Skin request |
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Posted: Fri Sep 11, 2015 12:06 pm
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Replies: 25
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| Yup, with the same technique, it can be done, by moving the user picture so it's visible again, and adjusting the name data. It's just that the user picture is referenced to the top left corner of the dragon frame, so it floats all over the place. When the column width is narrow, first the user pict... |
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: Skin request |
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Posted: Thu Sep 10, 2015 11:21 pm
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Replies: 25
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| Thanks to Jcee, for skinning the menu for us. Just tried it out an hour ago.:) My apologies to Jcee, as well. I did not realize I zipped the picture of the dragon without the transparency. I have put it in another zip. I checked it twice this time. I also put the same main menu bitmap with the trans... |
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: Vista Beta (Win7 style) & Blue Max (Classic, Win7 style) |
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Posted: Tue Sep 08, 2015 11:28 am
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Replies: 30
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| Hay, Splitwirez. Picked up that Mexican saying from somewhere. Just comparing you to the best taco ever. About the transplant. I would much rather you, do the replacing of your beta frame. Think of it like this. If I have say, size 10 narrow shoe. You have say, basketball player size 16 wide shoe. N... |
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: Skin request |
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Posted: Tue Sep 08, 2015 7:05 am
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| Hi Jcee. As for me, I can still venture back into the XP past, because I can swap out the still working drive, so it's not as important to me, as for ocasioi777, possibly Weboh. About the flames or dragon, or both, or none. I put a single shot of flames, and of dragon, in the zip. Part of dragon's t... |
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: Skin request |
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Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2015 10:50 pm
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| Hi Jcee. At one time, I wanted to make one of those dragon, or molten menus too. Always went to the back burner, as something else would come up. Might as well let someone else use these bitmaps that I gathered up. I stitched the main menu back together. They would still need to be assembled into a ... |
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: Skin request |
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Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2015 3:56 pm
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Here is the animated dragon file in .tga format. Zipped.
Maybe someone could turn it into an animated start button dragon. |
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: Vista Beta (Win7 style) & Blue Max (Classic, Win7 style) |
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Posted: Sat Sep 05, 2015 9:37 pm
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Replies: 30
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Splitwirez.
I believe the time it took you.
You gave it some definition.
You are el taco supremo.
Why do you need me to add it?
Anything I upload is for anyone to modify and upload it again.
I don't care. It was never mine in the first place. Just playing around.
Good job. |
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: Request: StartIsBack skin |
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Posted: Sat Sep 05, 2015 7:59 pm
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Replies: 17
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| Hi Splitwirez. I made a slightly bigger one to match Tihiy's original. I didn't make any for higher dots per inch. Replace the two bitmaps Change text to: [USER_IMAGE] User_bitmap=40 User_mask=41 User_image_size=60 User_frame_position=36 User_image_offset=2,2 User_bitmap_outside=1 Back to you. One m... |
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: Vista Beta (Win7 style) & Blue Max (Classic, Win7 style) |
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Posted: Sat Sep 05, 2015 6:10 pm
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| About that original user picture frame, on the 5112. The one you supplied is almost the same as mine, just a little off size. I had it at the very start, when the top of menu was original height, then I chopped it out. There's a reason why it's not there. When the default beta flower picture is show... |
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: Request: StartIsBack skin |
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Posted: Sat Sep 05, 2015 12:49 pm
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Replies: 17
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| Circle frame around picture. RevC This is well and truly my last attempt at the frame. One of the images is 64 pixels, the other is 56 pixels. I think I got it now. Mind you, it really was like fishing. A few times I had it, then it got away when reset. Seems stable now. I will let you tweak it more... |
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: Request: StartIsBack skin |
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Posted: Fri Sep 04, 2015 10:29 pm
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| Hello Splitwirez. Played a little with the round picture. I cropped one of your bitmaps, and made it black. Still could not make the grey frame show up, but at least there is a round user picture. We are only fishing, as we don't know all the rules. :) This is the text, I used below: [USER_IMAGE] Us... |
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: Metro mission possible or impossible |
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Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2015 11:02 am
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| Metro Classic two column using in Win 10. Hello. I wanted to have the second column look at bit tile-ish, by changing in the customize section, as well as changing the Main icon frame colors text in the skin. Ran into a couple of snags. 1. Is it possible to have the second column to have a different... |
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Forum: Chitchat Topic: Windows 10 Customization: General Tips and hacks |
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Posted: Mon Aug 24, 2015 8:47 am
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| Came across this Win 10 color changer from http://rammichael.com/tag/windows-10-color-control By checking/applying, turns background autocolor to something like wacky 8. More bright colors. Still has dark colors. Just a different mixed set it uses. Some colors could be too bright, if using original ... |
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: Glass Luna XP |
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Posted: Sat Aug 22, 2015 11:50 am
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Replies: 10
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| Hello Splitwirez. I had passed off on this skin in Win7/8.1. It was the unorthodox way of keeping color in the original bitmap to blend with the mask, where original is usually greyscale. Bit too much tint contamination. WOW! Now, different story, as Win10 behaves differently, by auto adding 40/255 ... |
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: Vista Beta (Win7 style) & Blue Max (Classic, Win7 style) |
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Posted: Thu Aug 20, 2015 6:02 pm
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| OK, Weboh. Finally, a hard days week, is over. The extension padding, was an over killer. I figure 90 percent of the text script, is what I call "Bonker Logic". :lol: Drives me bonkers to get items to work, and end up copy/pasting more than I should. Let me know if I missed a screw up. Jus... |
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: Vista Beta (Win7 style) & Blue Max (Classic, Win7 style) |
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Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2015 10:20 am
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Replies: 30
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| If you want to make a soufflé,- use Adobe, Paint, whatever. Steep learning curve. If you just want to make toast,- use Pixel former. Simple to understand. Pixelformer uses sky language, not English :lol:. Pixelformer has three clickable views: Sunshine & clouds view= Red, green, blue layer (The ... |
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: Vista Beta (Win7 style) & Blue Max (Classic, Win7 style) |
| juniper7 |
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Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2015 1:47 am
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Replies: 30
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| Blue single it is. I'm skipping caption as it looked bad. I'll make an option for two column to have all blue, or split. Starting to make some headway. At the beginning, I converted too much at once, without checking the progress. Bad move, as all I got was the default no skin white menu, without an... |
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: Vista Beta (Win7 style) & Blue Max (Classic, Win7 style) |
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Posted: Sun Aug 16, 2015 11:23 pm
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Replies: 30
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| You are right Weboh. The Win7 version does look hilariously wide. :lol: The good side is, the "all programs" text, won't get cutoff inside. I have no idea what text I can change to reduce the width in a skin. The padding looks normal. Must have done something wrong. :| You can always shrin... |
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Forum: Feature Requests Topic: New look for newly installed program button. |
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Posted: Sat Aug 15, 2015 7:51 pm
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Replies: 1
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| Hello. This is probably only the second or third time, I've ever asked for a new feature in Classsic Shell Menu. I have just recently done a clean install of Windows 10, along with reinstalling all the apps, and programs. When there are just a couple of new programs installed, it's ok to see the &qu... |
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: Two Tone (Classic Style) for Windows 10 |
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Posted: Fri Aug 14, 2015 10:48 am
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Replies: 6
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Here is Win7 "Menu Look" adjustment, to boost the color and subdue the whites.
Other.
Wow. Big difference in glass blur transparency between default Win 10 and Win 7. |
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: Two Tone (Classic Style) for Windows 10 |
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Posted: Fri Aug 14, 2015 1:33 am
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Replies: 6
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Hey Pipalou50
Thanks.
Who knows, maybe this is my last skin.
You will have to take over, and release one of your own ones, again.
I still use your skin from way back
viewtopic.php?f=17&t=2821&p=13366#p13366
The bright colors uplift me. |
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: Windows 10 skin (similar to Start10) |
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Posted: Fri Aug 14, 2015 1:14 am
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Hello xxDaViDxx
Good to see more skinners doing their thing.
Like how you made the right column wider. |
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: Two Tone (Classic Style) for Windows 10 |
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Posted: Thu Aug 13, 2015 10:51 am
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Replies: 6
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| Two Tone (Classic Style) Made for WINDOWS 10 with V4.2.4 Can work in Windows 7, with settings adjustment in CSM. See below After downloading file, paste in skins folder. Usually C:\Program Files\Classic Shell\Skins Exit CSM, restart CSM, and go to "Start Menu Style" tab. Pick "Classic... |
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Forum: Classic Start Menu Topic: Match Windows 10 taskbar color |
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Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2015 11:23 am
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Replies: 14
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Ah, Ok.
It's like a "color jive table".
So everything has colors that are happy with each other.
Sure wish MS could change one of those, for the context menu, for "keep using app".
Comes out with the freakiest hard to read yellow sometimes. |
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Forum: Classic Start Menu Topic: Match Windows 10 taskbar color |
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Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2015 7:45 am
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Forum: Classic Start Menu Topic: Match Windows 10 taskbar color |
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Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2015 7:36 am
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| Hi GauravK. Is there any way you can tell us that color information in layman terms. I am having trouble understanding and getting that box window to show. Does it mean that if I put the downloaded utility in the users temp folder. Click on the run box, and enter %tmp%\ClassicShellUtility.exe metro ... |
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: Can't Locate "Claude Glass Skin" |
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Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2015 7:00 pm
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Replies: 13
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| Sorry Zoni. I put that picture to show how easy it is to do it. I overwrote most of that personal menu into a darker army/navy one with bullets, and missiles. (Bad idea), which turned into something else again. Just counting, I have about 8 menu skins at various levels of completion. They are all on... |
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Forum: Classic Start Menu Topic: Opacity adjustments in Win 10 |
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Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2015 6:57 pm
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Just gotta say, it's so freakin neat using latest build of CSM,
where you can change the glass transparency amount, of menu, and taskbar, on the fly.
As long as there is some to begin with, in the skin bitmap, one can extend it more.
It's making me lazy. |
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: Can't Locate "Claude Glass Skin" |
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Posted: Wed Aug 05, 2015 5:57 pm
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| I chose not to modify, basically just update to what GauravK said was missing. Mostly done for "RetiredEngineer", and found it's good for matching taskbar in Win 10. It's relatively easy to make round corners, with a bitmap editor. Check out picture. Last year I made a popsicle summer skin... |
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: Can't Locate "Claude Glass Skin" |
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Posted: Wed Aug 05, 2015 2:34 am
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| Hi Splitwirez. I'm kind of jumping the gun. I finished adding the splitbuttons to the skin, before you. And here it is. If you are in the process of completing yours, I will delete this one. Apparently some people want a menu to match the taskbar in Win 10. This one is close with default blur/auto c... |
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: (Humble) Request: Metro Skin with Transparency |
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Posted: Wed Aug 05, 2015 2:29 am
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More magic, I see for the picture frame square in the classic version. Now invisible.
Very good. |
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Forum: Classic Start Menu Topic: Match Windows 10 taskbar color |
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Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2015 4:22 pm
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| In Win 10. I found the older smoked glass "Claude Glass" skin, modded by GauravK, can be even darker with reduced color, and good taskbar color match, with it on, when taskbar has glass blur. Just waiting for Splitwirez if got time, to add the splitbuttons. Or I could if you want, do it by... |
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Forum: Classic Start Menu Topic: Win+X menu |
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Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2015 12:22 pm
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Replies: 4
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| A little off topic. That Win+x menu is very handy. I have a shortcut link on it, to start Classic Shell Menu. Always using it, after exiting CSM for a skin mod change. Very easy to add and remove shortcuts. If only it could do flyout menus. A developer for Winaero says that function can't be changed... |
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: Vista Beta (Win7 style) & Blue Max (Classic, Win7 style) |
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Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2015 12:03 pm
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| Hi Weboh Not too much time right now. You can always jerry rig the file, by renaming the .skin7 to .skin Half of skin will still work, other aspects will be out of wack. Like shutdown button, picture placement, text alignment off, no name, etc. About the theme. I don't feel right modifying someone e... |
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Forum: Bug Reports Topic: Apps menu with Classic Shell 4.2.3 Windows 10 build 10240 |
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Posted: Sun Aug 02, 2015 8:52 am
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I got that crashing problem later, as well. Ms must have done something.
Could not replace the fix, at first.
I had to rename the original .dll to ClassicStartMenuDLL.olddll
Thank you Ivo. |
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: Can't Locate "Claude Glass Skin" |
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Posted: Fri Jul 24, 2015 5:21 pm
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Splitwirez wrote:
I completely forgot this even existed...
Me too.
Button bitmap would have to be copied to a location on your computer,
to retain the alpha layer RGBA.
Saving it, just turns it into 24 bit RGB, in Win8.1 |
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: Can't Locate "Claude Glass Skin" |
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Posted: Fri Jul 24, 2015 1:06 pm
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| Hi Splitwirez. Here is a matching split button, if you want to use. Main_split_selection=??? Main_split_selection_slices_X=4,63,4,0,16,4 Main_split_selection_slices_Y=4,20,4 Main2_split_selection=??? Main2_split_selection_slices_X=4,63,4,0,16,4 Main2_split_selection_slices_Y=4,20,4 Submenu_split_sel... |
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: Vista Beta (Win7 style) & Blue Max (Classic, Win7 style) |
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Posted: Fri Jul 24, 2015 9:12 am
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Hello GauravK.
I deleted all the beta files some days ago.
I believe the green arrow was original, or with minor tweak.
Credit Splitwirez, for coming up with the shutdown icon idea.
Yes, using a different shutdown image in button, or icon has good possibilities.
Check out Metro mockup. |
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: Vista Beta (Win7 style) & Blue Max (Classic, Win7 style) |
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Posted: Sun Jul 19, 2015 8:33 pm
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| Here is a simpler variation. BLUE MAX No transparency, no glass color. Low on grey, high on saturation. I guess only a few people in universe might like it this rich. Reminds me of cheap new cars, and a royal blue living room carpet, from years ago. My last skin before taking a deep breath, and jump... |
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: XP LUNA Variations (Classic 1 and 2) |
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Posted: Sun Jul 19, 2015 1:13 pm
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| Hi rd1993. well, that's a bummer. I just retried on Windows 7 Ultimate, and it works, with 4.2.1 By the way, there is only a small square around where the icons would be, that is active. The text is just dummy text, imbedded in the menu picture bitmap. Nothing will happen, if clicking on text. :) I ... |
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