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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: Avengers S.H.I.E.L.D. start menu skin |
| juniper7 |
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Posted: Sat Apr 04, 2020 8:25 pm
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In case there are language translation errors between us, or we are using different CSM/Window versions,
I sent Mr. Froggy comparison pictures in PM.  |
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: Modern XP Luna skin |
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Posted: Sat Apr 04, 2020 1:31 pm
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| Basic Split Win10 [7 STYLE] for CSM version 4.3.1 For exact display sizes 100%/96dpi,125%/120dpi,150%/144dpi Made for Windows 10 and 8 to use the Metro color shades or glass color. It does not work at all on Win7 due to the use of the Metro color text. I finished the 7 style menu after 3 years as we... |
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: Avengers S.H.I.E.L.D. start menu skin |
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Posted: Sat Apr 04, 2020 12:49 pm
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My brain said wake up, you need to help someone.
The brain never sleeps. From what I've read, the brain dreams, processes data from the daytime,
analyzes, distorts, deletes, saves to long term memory,
and occasionally wakes the person up with a solution to something however bizarre it may be.  |
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: clrSharp1 2 3 .skin & .skin7 upgraded for CSM 4.2.5 |
| juniper7 |
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Posted: Sat Apr 04, 2020 12:46 pm
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Thanks to you for the designs.
Clearsharp2 still looks good after all these years.
Clean & simple.  |
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: Avengers S.H.I.E.L.D. start menu skin |
| juniper7 |
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Posted: Thu Apr 02, 2020 1:48 pm
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Hi fonpaolo
I sent a private message to you. |
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: Avengers S.H.I.E.L.D. start menu skin |
| juniper7 |
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Posted: Thu Apr 02, 2020 4:59 am
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| fonpaolo Looks like you need to make 2 more bitmap masks(classic 1 and classic 2) that have the additional invisible 10 pixels at the top to match for big user picture. It's a shame another bitmap mask has to be used for the custom menu color. Years ago I may have come across a way to turn off the g... |
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: Avengers S.H.I.E.L.D. start menu skin |
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Posted: Thu Apr 02, 2020 2:24 am
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| fonpaolo Please double-check bitmap 33 size for 2 column bitmap mask. I think is a size miss-match. There seems to be some interaction between big user picture, user name (position higher) and custom background color for menu(mask does no show color). No time to check for more issues. Maybe mask for... |
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: Avengers S.H.I.E.L.D. start menu skin |
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Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2020 11:26 am
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| Hello fonpaolo I see you have upgraded your skin. I downloaded and put it in the skins folder. No luck. It only shows default white skin. :cry: Unfortunately, the skin got corrupted at some point. Any bitmap or custom icon above #30 has vanished. Hopefully, you have a slightly older working backup s... |
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: Opaque Custom Image Menu [7 style] |
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Posted: Wed Feb 26, 2020 11:02 pm
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| Just putting a link here in Start Menu Skins section in case anyone wants the same big round Apple corner style without images, It is a Windows 10 opaque charcoal and glass color skin I had put in the Classic Start Menu section around a year ago: http://classicshell.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t... |
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: Windows 8 Dark [Classic and 7 style] Windows Aero Dark |
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Posted: Sun Feb 23, 2020 7:15 pm
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| Windows 8 Dark [Classic and 7 style] It's Ivo's Windows 8 skins changed to have Win 10 dark opaque greys on the outside submenu, left column, search, and jump views. No white menus. Well, one can still force the second column white by going to "Menu Look" settings tab, and checking the box... |
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: Old'n'Style port [Classic 1/2] and [7 Style] |
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Posted: Tue Jan 14, 2020 1:56 pm
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| Old'n'Style port [Classic 1/2] and [7 Style] for CSM version 4.3.1 For display sizes 100%/96dpi,125%/120dpi,150%/144dpi This is another distinctive looking opaque start menu port borrowed from the Old'n'Style WindowBlinds theme made by weirdoo over 10 years ago: https://www.wincustomize.com/explore/... |
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: Avengers S.H.I.E.L.D. start menu skin |
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Posted: Sat Dec 28, 2019 6:13 am
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| Web site erosion Hey, you know what? About a week ago the Classic Shell site went down for a while. I could not connect, just a white web page. When I checked the next day it was working again, but I notice that small pictures on this post disappeared and can't be retrieved. The company that hosts t... |
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: Avengers S.H.I.E.L.D. start menu skin |
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Posted: Wed Dec 18, 2019 11:22 pm
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| Really? As far as I know, only the scrollbar does not enlarge in override. Maybe some displays are different. My Win7 style skin example: If I set Classic Shell override to 144dpi and exit CSM, restart CSM and take a screenshot. The menu has dimensions 635H x 867V I then reset override back to 0 def... |
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: Avengers S.H.I.E.L.D. start menu skin |
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Posted: Sun Dec 15, 2019 1:18 pm
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| Ok fonpaolo, get ready for lots of reading. High dpi expert? Not me. My monitor is a standard 100%/96 dpi old-school 1920x1080 display. It's Gaurav and others that have high definition displays, possibly even 4k size. Most of the time when porting/making my own menu for 125%/120 dpi or 150%/144 dpi ... |
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: Avengers S.H.I.E.L.D. start menu skin |
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Posted: Sat Dec 14, 2019 3:56 pm
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| I had to try one last time using the search bitmap instead, making magnifier background opaque. It can only use exactly 16 by 16-pixel size for 100% Windows display size. Each area of the image is set in stone for proper alignment. A pin bitmap works differently where whatever the image size is, it ... |
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: Avengers S.H.I.E.L.D. start menu skin |
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Posted: Sat Dec 14, 2019 2:48 pm
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| I don't think so. If it was a 7 style skin the magnifier image is inside the box and some extra visuals can be done. Your next project? :) It can get quite complicated though to get all three main/jump/search menu views to work correctly, along with different font/display sizes. If there was some wa... |
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: Avengers S.H.I.E.L.D. start menu skin |
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Posted: Fri Dec 13, 2019 5:32 pm
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| Hi Can you say it in a different way or make a mock-up picture? Do you mean if a skin is reset or used for the first time that all checkboxes in the skin options start out as all checked? Looking at the tutorial: OPTION SMALL_ICONS="Small Icons",1 will show as on OPTION SMALL_ICONS="S... |
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Forum: Taskbar Skins Topic: Christmas taskbar skin |
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Posted: Sat Dec 07, 2019 5:01 pm
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Candy-cane taskbar
I have no idea where I got this from.
It's only good for a normal 100% display size and needs to be set to tile horizontally.
Use the small taskbar image for small taskbar (30-pixel height)
Use the large taskbar image for large taskbar image(40-pixel height) |
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: Avengers S.H.I.E.L.D. start menu skin |
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Posted: Thu Dec 05, 2019 10:53 pm
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| A note about the win7 type pin bitmaps above. I actually increased the size a little so they weren't as fuzzy looking. I think 100% size has 20 pixels instead of 16 pixels. Yes fonpaolo, there are a number of bits of information left out of the tutorial. It got updated a number of times. Possibly wh... |
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: Avengers S.H.I.E.L.D. start menu skin |
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Posted: Mon Dec 02, 2019 12:08 am
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Here are a couple of pin icons from maybe win8 system in the zip.
Once extracted from Zip, open with your Pixelformer program to get the correct image size. |
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: Avengers S.H.I.E.L.D. start menu skin |
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Posted: Sun Dec 01, 2019 11:56 pm
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| Going from memory, the pin bitmap is auto provided by whatever Windows system has to offer. It changes size depending on display size 100/125/150 percent. Skin can be overwritten to use your own bitmaps, (example "Pin_bitmap=123") and include bitmap in the skin file. If one makes a skin to... |
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: Avengers S.H.I.E.L.D. start menu skin |
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Posted: Sun Dec 01, 2019 2:53 pm
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| Excellent Thankfully 1909 was no problem. Yes, a bit of a headache for me when upgrading to 1903. Made a couple of programs not work after the update. I had to go back and forth to retrieve data. Around that time I installed Open-Shell for a while until a Windows update fixed the glass color back on... |
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Global announcement Topic: Classic Shell no longer in development. Source code released |
| juniper7 |
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Posted: Sun Dec 01, 2019 9:13 am
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| Oh man! You paid too much money to watch the layers of dust accumulate on it. For me, even Win7 disk was an upgrade to an XP upgrade to a Win98se upgrade disk, etc, all the way back to Win95. I give Microsoft as little money as possible for all the trouble they gave me through the years. I read that... |
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: Avengers S.H.I.E.L.D. start menu skin |
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Posted: Sat Nov 30, 2019 11:20 pm
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| Hmmm...The taskbar mods I made are still your taskbar, which is still mostly transparent. I really don't know what the problem is with the taskbar being just a grey rectangle. Screenshot? Try anything and everything. :) Windows update problem? CSM version 4.3.1 ? Ensure the "Taskbar texture&quo... |
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: Vista Plus port [7 style] |
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Posted: Wed Nov 27, 2019 1:38 pm
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| I made the classic 1/2 column styles of the same menu skin with the Version 2 big top bar for user picture and name. It feels weird going back to the large size, but that's what XP menus looked like back in the day when it was originally made. :) What I did was if "Small icons" option is p... |
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: Avengers S.H.I.E.L.D. start menu skin |
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Posted: Sat Nov 23, 2019 2:43 pm
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| Sorry, I don't understand your last comments. If it's about the modded taskbar, it's just a personal preference, because when there are icons all across the taskbar the empty notch portion looks odd. I just filled it in a little bit for use when the "Transparent" look is used. If using &qu... |
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Forum: Taskbar Skins Topic: Avengers S.H.I.E.L.D. Taskbar Skin |
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Posted: Sat Nov 23, 2019 12:28 pm
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I modified your taskbar image a little to fit my Win 10 system.
It also adds a little more space for the clock/date |
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: Avengers S.H.I.E.L.D. start menu skin |
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Posted: Sat Nov 23, 2019 12:24 pm
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| Hi fonpaolo. It would be a good idea to add a link to your start button and taskbar skin. :) Because my regular taskbar is filled with icons, I had to modify your taskbar to fill in the invisible notch to unify it for my system. I don't have any problem with the taskbar on Windows 10 (Win 8.1 is mes... |
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: Avengers S.H.I.E.L.D. start menu skin |
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Posted: Fri Nov 22, 2019 7:20 pm
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| Hi fonpaolo I remember when you were asking if it's possible to add little images on corners and such, so they will not distort or something like that. I also thought you gave up shortly after that. Very glad you went back to it to get amazing results. It looks like many months of work. Wow! Fantast... |
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: Vista Plus port [7 style] |
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Posted: Thu Nov 14, 2019 1:31 pm
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| Vista Plus port [7 style] adni18 has kindly given permission to use a ported variation (menu only) version of his famous Vista Plus WindowBlinds theme. All credit belongs to the original creator "adni18". All menu images are owned by "adni18". I have only modified to fit the Clas... |
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: Inspirat-11 [Docked and floating 7 style versions] |
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Posted: Sun Oct 06, 2019 1:13 pm
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| Note about Gom player: Dang, it! Before I made the original post, I was using an old version (about 5 years old) of Gom player which works fine on Win 10. To make sure the Gom Inspirat skin still worked, I installed a newer Gom player version. Skin still works, but now I get one of their web site ad... |
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: Inspirat-11 [Docked and floating 7 style versions] |
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Posted: Sat Sep 21, 2019 5:50 pm
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| Inspirat-11 [Docked and floating 7 style versions] I borrowed some of the borders from a GOM media player skin called "11 Inspirat" to make this start menu skin. I've been using that GOM player skin for many years that imitates the original Windows Media Player version 11. Here are the lin... |
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Forum: Classic Start Menu Topic: Reconciling and Removing System Folders |
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Posted: Thu Sep 12, 2019 11:39 am
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| For me, both menus have the same folders, but the Metro apps show up separately in the "Apps" folder in CSM. My Win 10 is made from continuous updates (not clean install) starting from Win 8. There is one thing about icons, in that they will look different depending on what size/color bit ... |
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: NOVUM OS port [7 style] |
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Posted: Sun Aug 18, 2019 10:08 pm
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| NOVUM OS port [converted to 7 style] Use with CSM version 4.3.1 This is an old XP (start menu only) port from 2007. Reminds me of beta Vista versions, but has all whiteish columns with shadow/vignette effect. The creator Florian Egerer, goes by a number of other names, da-flow, code2, and continuum2... |
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: WIN7LIKE (Windows 7 style) |
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Posted: Thu Jun 27, 2019 8:29 pm
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| WIN7LIKE COMBO revD This skin is the same as rev C except for the changes below: Included a diagonal bars reflection image from Win7 beta build 6801. Was requested by Felix Added shutdown button look option. It has a resemblance to the other 2nd column button and static view of the beta 6801 button.... |
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: Opaque Win 7 Basic skin [Classic 1/2 styles] |
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Posted: Sun Jun 23, 2019 2:13 pm
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| Opaque Win 7 Basic skin [Classic 1/2 styles] Requirements Use with minimum CSM minimum 4.2.6 version or use most updated Open-Shell Glass color lighter taskbar image works only for Windows 10 1809,1903 I was drawn to the attention by another user "delicacy", that there was a very old opaqu... |
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Forum: Classic Start Menu Topic: Start menu color fitting my taskbar color in win7 |
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Posted: Fri Jun 14, 2019 11:27 am
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| Apart from your mare-m windows theme from overriding something, sometimes, it's the simplest of settings that can send one in circles for hours. Besides picking the correct skin, selecting opaque menu option, Menu override glass color 7F5319 /Menu glass intensity 100 /Menu color blending 0 settings,... |
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Forum: Classic Start Menu Topic: Start menu color fitting my taskbar color in win7 |
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Posted: Thu Jun 13, 2019 10:21 pm
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| It's too bad you are having so many problems. I did not encounter any problems like that, because I don't use Windows themes anymore. They always screw something up, including browsers. I'm surprised. Windows 7 is usually quite stable, and themers should have worked out all their bugs by now. Window... |
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Forum: Classic Start Menu Topic: Start menu color fitting my taskbar color in win7 |
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Posted: Wed Jun 12, 2019 12:22 pm
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| Hi delicacy I downloaded your skin and was looking at it. I don't want to do anything yet, because I don't have enough information from you. :) It's a very old opaque skin that copies the silver color Windows 7 basic version. It does not have split buttons. Would need to be updated. I'm not sure wha... |
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Forum: Classic Start Menu Topic: Start menu color fitting my taskbar color in win7 |
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Posted: Tue Jun 11, 2019 1:04 pm
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| Trying to get an exact match would be difficult and Classic Shell is not being developed anymore. Besides what Jcee mentioned, here is more info below. On Windows 7 OS in the "Window Color and Appearance", the color intensity feature seems to alter transparency as well as color boost. So e... |
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Forum: Classic Start Menu Topic: Windows 10 1903 non compatiblity with CSM |
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Posted: Fri May 24, 2019 7:21 am
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| It's a bummer day for Classic Shell . I just upgraded to Windows 10 1903, the version that has the Windows light mode menu theme (Light grey menu with boosted background color and added noise, and larger blur radius). I was not expecting that new feature to work with CSM. A big problem with CSM... |
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Forum: Start Buttons Topic: windows whistler fake start button |
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Posted: Wed May 22, 2019 6:47 am
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| I know that feeling sometimes when an image is reduced in size, the image looks worse than it should. Try all available resize options in your image editor, like bicubic, bilinear, or nearest neighbor. Newer editors may use better algorithms. Occasionally one can get better results by first enlargin... |
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: Metro Pastel Light [7 style] |
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Posted: Tue May 21, 2019 3:02 pm
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| Here is another full pastel menu using Metro 10 colors that you may not need! I forgot about the "Custom color" feature that comes with Win 10 1809. I can just make the menu brighter that way. :lol: Anyway, it's made now. Metro Pastel Light [7 style] for Windows 10 only minimum CSM version... |
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Forum: Classic Start Menu Topic: Open Shell - Jump LIsts in Win7 |
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Posted: Sat May 11, 2019 11:20 am
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I would also check the Windows 7 taskbar properties,
for some of the jump-list settings might interact with other start menus? |
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Forum: Classic Start Menu Topic: Open Shell - Jump LIsts in Win7 |
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Posted: Sat May 11, 2019 10:51 am
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| All I remember is someone in the know said in order for jump-lists to appear, the program needs to be started from within the Classic/Open shell menu. I did a test on Win 7 with Classic shell and Open-shell. Both show explorer jump-lists. I had to pick "Recent programs". Pinning explorer t... |
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Forum: Bug Reports Topic: Ugh, taskbar issue (( |
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Posted: Sun May 05, 2019 1:47 pm
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| About the xml file. For myself, I never recall having a problem. I don't trust it because others have. I can only assume what happens is a user makes changes from a non-matching version, saves then uses that on a different version again. Also, possibly xml file is edited by itself, not through CSM. ... |
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Forum: Bug Reports Topic: Ugh, taskbar issue (( |
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Posted: Sun May 05, 2019 10:31 am
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| delicacy, I did a test. I installed 4.2.0 on Win7. There are no taskbar options except one "Disable taskbar transparency" in "Menu Look" tab that turns taskbar opaque black. I installed Ver 4.2.6 which seems to be the version with the first "Taskbar" settings tab, that ... |
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Forum: Bug Reports Topic: Ugh, taskbar issue (( |
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Posted: Sat May 04, 2019 1:08 pm
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| If your CSM version does have a taskbar settings tab, double check the taskbar settings. Transparency could be at 0 ? If CSM version has taskbar texture skinning options, I would reset the "Border sizes" back to 0,0 It's happened to me that I had high border numbers for a long skinned task... |
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: Invader Port |
| juniper7 |
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Posted: Wed Apr 24, 2019 7:22 pm
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| Invader Port by Stardock and The Skins Factory that they made for Alienware many moons ago (15 years). Classic 1/2 and 7 style and added floating option as well. Yes, big file size. 100/125/150 percent sizes Use minimum CSM 4.3.0 Put the skin files in the skin folder of Classic Shell. You might need... |
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Forum: Start Buttons Topic: 8.1 Start Button Icon on Transparent Background at 125% Size |
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Posted: Tue Apr 23, 2019 12:19 pm
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| There is probably a registry setting that can be changed in Windows, but you could try using Ivo's animated start button with faster speed. Read about it in this link to learn about animated buttons: http://www.classicshell.net/tutorials/buttontutorial.html I took your image and added a 1-pixel line... |
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