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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: Windows 98/ Windows 10 Combination Start Menu w Captions |
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Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2017 10:20 pm
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| Hi, I've now changed only the headers like you said. It seems that the options are checked on when you reset the skin still. However, the options don't work now. User picture adds a space for the user picture, but no actual user picture. I think rev2 the options are not checked, but dont work. I've ... |
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Forum: Classic Start Menu Topic: does somebody know which skin is it? |
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Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2017 8:49 pm
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Here is the screenshot of the start-menu from the video. I'm sorry about the low quality, I hope it helps.
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Forum: Feature Requests Topic: Portable Classic Shell |
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Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2017 2:15 pm
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: Windows 98/ Windows 10 Combination Start Menu w Captions |
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Posted: Mon Jan 02, 2017 5:45 pm
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| Hi, custom color is now working, thanks. I replaced user_picture with random1, and no_icons with random2. The options are now unchecked when you reset the skin, however, they don't work now. Is it possible to add transparency on this skin without adding bitmaps? To still have color_custom but with a... |
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: Classic skin with original Windows captions |
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Posted: Wed Dec 28, 2016 9:10 pm
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| Hi R.O.B., I used your start menu .skin as a base for my start menu .skin. I took out most of the captions though because I figured that you put in alot of work making these captions, and I didn't want to just leave them in there. I also made a few other captions, if you want to take a look. The sta... |
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: Windows 98/ Windows 10 Combination Start Menu w Captions |
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Posted: Wed Dec 28, 2016 9:00 pm
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| Hello all, I made a start menu that combines the Windows 98 start menu, and the Windows 10 start menu. I attached a xml file to load for the menu to work, and a classic icons.zip for the classic icons from Windows 98. Here's an image: https://s28.postimg.org/96z0h0xgt/classic10classicshell.png Credi... |
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: XP LUNA Variations (Classic 1 and 2) |
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Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2016 6:21 pm
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| This is pretty cool. Good work making it Juniper, keep up the good work. =) |
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: TSN, I see start menu [Classic 1&2 style] |
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Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2016 12:12 pm
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| What was the 2013 screenshot? I found a 2016 screenshot announcing 4k broadcasts, and it looks like your menu, here http://www.bellmedia.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/TSN4kGraphic.jpg . Actually this weekend I was watching football on tsn & I saw a graphic that reminded me of your start menu too... |
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Forum: Classic Explorer Topic: Classic Shell commands in the menu rather than toolbar |
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Posted: Fri Oct 21, 2016 8:55 pm
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| Thanks Ivo, I was wondering about this too |
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Forum: Feature Requests Topic: Windows 10 Technical Preview (9841 - 9879) Menu Style |
| redblade8 |
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Posted: Fri Oct 21, 2016 6:34 pm
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| Alright, I don't think I could slice bitmaps like that any time soon xD Yeah, links would be nice. Like if the solid icon frames or borders could have links, and you could have the content within those frames/borders clickable, or if the emblems, or sliced bitmaps themselves could be linkable/clicka... |
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Forum: Feature Requests Topic: Windows 10 Technical Preview (9841 - 9879) Menu Style |
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Posted: Fri Oct 21, 2016 1:41 pm
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| Oh, alright. For me, it seems that emblems are the only solution so far to create tiles for start menu's. Though I'm not sure what would have to happen for tiles to be fully supported. User-defined variables? That sounds cool actually. Like if you were to give a start menu skin user defined options?... |
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Forum: Classic Explorer Topic: Ribbon Disabler & Menu Bar Disabler? |
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Posted: Fri Oct 21, 2016 12:53 pm
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| Thanks, that's very helpful. I was wondering if the 'file edit view tools help' menu bar was something built-in to classic shell, or if it wasn't. I'm not sure if the menu bar is shown with the ribbon enabled? Hmm |
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Forum: Classic Explorer Topic: Classic Shell commands in the menu rather than toolbar |
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Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2016 6:33 pm
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| I think this is a good idea. Try re-posting this under 'feature-requests' and see how it goes there. Cheers! =) |
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Forum: Feature Requests Topic: Windows 10 Technical Preview (9841 - 9879) Menu Style |
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Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2016 6:29 pm
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| I was thinking that emblems could fit into the 'customize start menu' section of the start menu settings. That would make it more user friendly than using resource hacker. I can make a concept art for it too. This would be like the way that Jcee's calculator menu is done which could also work for em... |
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: TSN, I see start menu [Classic 1&2 style] |
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Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2016 6:16 pm
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| I like this skin actually. It looks fairly complicated to make as well. I watch hockey & football on sportsnet, or tsn. Good work! =) |
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Forum: Classic Explorer Topic: Ribbon Disabler & Menu Bar Disabler? |
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Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2016 6:09 pm
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| Hi, it seems that when the ribbon is disabled in windows 8, the menu bar only shows up when the classic shell explorer toolbar is turned on. Is there an option to disable the menu bar as well? Thanks! It's much appreciated. =) |
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Forum: Feature Requests Topic: A True Classic Explorer, Images, Menu Bar |
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Posted: Fri Sep 30, 2016 7:04 pm
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| [highlight=#ececec]I've tried it. Doesn't work on x64. Idk about x86 though...[/highlight] Oh, ok. It might of been x86 in the video. On windows 8 it installs, and you get a tray icon, but it crashes right away. [highlight=#ececec]Not sure about the legal stuff, all I meant was that we don&... |
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Forum: Feature Requests Topic: A True Classic Explorer, Images, Menu Bar |
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Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2016 12:33 pm
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| [highlight=#ececec]It's XP. That's the whole point - TrueTransparency and BorderSkin provide the glass borders, while Styler provides the explorer interface, and together they have you fooled [/highlight] http://classicshell.net/forum/images/smilies/icon_lol.gif"%20%20alt=":lol:&q... |
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Forum: Feature Requests Topic: A True Classic Explorer, Images, Menu Bar |
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Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2016 6:03 pm
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| Ok, thanks for letting me know. It's too bad that it doesn't work on any OS other than windows xp. :s The screenshot I found looks like vista though? Or it could of been a visual theme plus the toolbar on windows xp that made it look that way. Do you know if the source code is available? I'm not sur... |
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Forum: Feature Requests Topic: A True Classic Explorer, Images, Menu Bar |
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Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2016 11:31 am
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| Hi, thanks for the input, it's much appreciated. ^^ What does styler toolbar do? I went to google and looked for images of it, and didn't find much. Can you have an address bar below the toolbar buttons, a menu bar, and custom back, forward, and up buttons? Here's an image I found of styler toolbar:... |
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Forum: Feature Requests Topic: A True Classic Explorer, Images, Menu Bar |
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Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2016 5:43 pm
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| Hi, thanks for your reply. This is just an idea/concept art currently, so it won't work. Maybe one day, but for now it's just an idea & concept art. Thanks again for your reply, it's much appreciated ^_^ |
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: Windows 10 Start Menu With Emblem Tiles |
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Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2016 1:40 pm
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thou shall not hijack threads
thou shall not mention dank meme without link
thou shall be on topic
end. ( or begin ) xD |
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Forum: Classic Start Menu Topic: Vintage C S M settings |
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Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2016 6:50 pm
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| Classic shell is pretty awesome, it's one of the first things that I install on windows. You're right that microsoft isn't that great when it comes to removing things. The classic theme was removed from windows 8, and 10, which I used on windows 7. There was a classic theme .exe for winodws 8 & ... |
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: Windows 10 Start Menu With Emblem Tiles |
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Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2016 6:39 pm
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Hi, I'm sorry that I haven't been on here in a while, nice commandments though lol.
I'll try doing what you said about the bitmaps, thanks juniper. =) |
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: Windows 10 Start Menu With Emblem Tiles |
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Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2016 8:08 pm
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| No, I thought you were helpful. Masks are kind of like layers? I can relate to that with photoshop , enabling and disabling the view of different layers. It reminds me of when I was trying to figure out how to make a layer transparent, but it wasn't working. I just had to delete the layer underneath... |
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: Starcraft Zerg - Skin |
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Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2016 7:49 pm
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| Hi, I agree with the nameplate idea. Also, the idea about the queen of blades wielding a sword that skewers the nameplate I think is a very cool idea as well. If you did a .skin7, there's a bug with the jump list, and search pane. When you do a search, or hover over an item for recent programs/files... |
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: Windows 10 Start Menu With Emblem Tiles |
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Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2016 12:43 pm
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| Ok, that makes more sense kind of, thanks. Masking tape & the opposite of it is a good analogy. I read the skinning tutorial , I did find pattern masking, which after your explanation makes more sense though. Bitmap masking doesn't make as much sense for me though. xD |
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Forum: Classic Start Menu Topic: Vintage C S M settings |
| redblade8 |
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Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2016 11:58 am
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| That's a pretty cool find you found there. I like seeing the history of things like that. I think I started using classic shell in either 2009, or 2010. I know for sure I used classic shell 1.9.2. Is there still a 'hotkey to use instead of the win key'? Hmm ^-^ Here's a quote from an old start menu ... |
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: Starcraft Zerg - Skin |
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Posted: Sat Aug 20, 2016 3:21 pm
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| Hi, this looks amazing. I remember that I had trouble adding icons to a .ini file, and now look what you can do with a start menu. This is pretty cool. StarCraft is a very fun game, I used to love playing it. I was always Terran in StarCraft 2. I laughed at you saying neversoft because I used to pla... |
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: Windows 10 Start Menu With Emblem Tiles |
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Posted: Sat Aug 20, 2016 1:38 pm
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| Oh, I see now. I dont have windows 10 on hand, so that helps as a reference. Cool, I'll go check out Jcees new skin, thanks. I can't seem to figure out masking, I'm not sure what tinting is exactly. To tint something another color? |
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: Windows 10 Start Menu With Emblem Tiles |
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Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2016 8:30 pm
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| The taskbar sections expands out to show the user name? Or is it when you hover your mouse to the left the taskbar area slides out? I think I saw that user picture on shpkongs post. Ok, now I know what you mean by the screw head. I was just about to post on here that I found a 'plus sign' with the e... |
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: Windows 10 Start Menu With Emblem Tiles |
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Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2016 8:51 am
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| I didn't think of that, that sounds pretty cool. I haven't been on windows 10 for a while now as I went with windows 7, then back to 8, so I don't remember the side icon area exactly. xD That is pretty small, that's like 1/4 the size of one icon almost. O.o I'm going to try to add that padding in la... |
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: Windows 10 Start Menu With Emblem Tiles |
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Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2016 10:40 pm
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| Hi, thanks for your replies, it's much appreciated. I put a lot of work into my replies, maybe too much sometimes. I like to throw everything that I think of out there & try to look for input. I do understand that this is Ivo's project, and that he is a one man army as Ive said before too. I've ... |
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: Windows 10 Start Menu With Emblem Tiles |
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Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2016 4:20 pm
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| I'll try to add that padding in, and see what happens, thanks. I'll also check out what the emblem is in the metallic skin. I'm not sure how feasible an animated .png emblem would be. But if we started at links, and worked our way up, that'd be good. How does having a Nintendo emblem that goes to th... |
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: Windows 10 Start Menu With Emblem Tiles |
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Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2016 8:51 pm
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| Thanks for your input, it's much appreciated. ^^ It's definetly better than my first one, thanks! =) You're right about jump view and search being stretched. At first I wasn't sure what the jump view was, but it's in the first column for items with arrows on them. I was thinking not to go the Micros... |
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: Windows 10 Start Menu With Emblem Tiles |
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Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2016 2:21 pm
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| Hi, this is my first start menu skin that I've made. The skin is a Windows 10 looking start menu. This shows the new feature, emblems. A picture can be seen here: http://i64.tinypic.com/25gyrt2.jpg I've attached the .skin7 to this post. Credits go to: Ivo - for his awesome program. Jcee - for help o... |
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Forum: Classic Start Menu Topic: How to display emblems on the start menu?Resource Hacker 425 |
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Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2016 2:09 pm
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| Hi, thanks for your reply, it's much appreciated. I wouldn't of known what to do if you didn't tell me about resource hacker 3.6. The latest resource hacker 4.2.5 doesn't support changing the resource type for .png files. I also did what you said for keeping the emblem text the same way as Ivo had i... |
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Forum: Feature Requests Topic: Placing images on start menu & linking them ( win 10 tiles ) |
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Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2016 10:04 pm
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| XD you're right. I did say a 'windows 10 looking' start menu though, so not exactly a real one yet. I'll look into the padding, thanks. ^^ If links to emblems were added, that'd be pretty cool. I currently have 5 emblems, showing 13 different tiles, while classic shell supports up to 10 emblems. If ... |
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Forum: Feature Requests Topic: Placing images on start menu & linking them ( win 10 tiles ) |
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Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2016 1:06 pm
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| Update: Using emblems I was able to create a Windows 10 looking start menu on Windows 8! You can see a picture here: http://oi67.tinypic.com/2uqenub.jpg What I did was add enough items in the start menu to make it big enough to fit all the emblem tiles, and also under 'customize start menu' if you w... |
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Forum: Feature Requests Topic: Placing images on start menu & linking them ( win 10 tiles ) |
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Posted: Sat Aug 13, 2016 8:53 am
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| Ok, cool. Ill keep that in mind. I was hoping that it wasn't .ico's though as there are some drawbacks to using them. Thanks, maybe one day images can be added to the start menu. I was asking about emblems before because I thought that maybe they could make the start menu look like I wanted. I made ... |
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Forum: Classic Start Menu Topic: How to display emblems on the start menu?Resource Hacker 425 |
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Posted: Fri Aug 12, 2016 8:07 pm
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| Hi, Im sorry if this is a newb-ish question as Im new to skinning, but I'm using the latest portable resource hacker 4.2.5 & latest version of classic shell 4.3.0 and would like to test out the new feature , emblems. I'm not sure if it matters if I use the portable version or not. I'm trying to ... |
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Forum: Classic Explorer Topic: Still can't achieve what I want with CS; maybe not possible? |
| redblade8 |
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Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2016 6:20 pm
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Replies: 5
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| Someone made a ribbon disabler for Windows 8. It didn't work correctly with Windows 10 though, it was broken. I don't know if this is still the case however. I think there is an address bar remover program that annix made. I think this gets rid of the extra back, forward, and up buttons, but it does... |
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Forum: Feature Requests Topic: Placing images on start menu & linking them ( win 10 tiles ) |
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Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2016 4:14 pm
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| Hi, how did you do that? Are those all .ico's? How come they're all the same size? Do you know if it's possible to do this with emblems too? I didn't need live tiles ( although if you could make a .gif or .png that was animated that'd be nice to have as a tile. ) Different sizes would be nice too. T... |
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Forum: Feature Requests Topic: Placing images on start menu & linking them ( win 10 tiles ) |
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Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2016 1:31 pm
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| Hello, I'm wondering if this is now possible to make a start menu like my concept image above from the new features that were added? Recently added to classic shell: - Taskbar texture - .bmp, .png, .jpg - New skinning features for pattern textures, emblem textures, and mpre complex skin settings - S... |
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Forum: Feature Requests Topic: Network button replacement |
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Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2016 2:50 pm
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| You're right about what is broken now. I didn't know that 'setting a metered connection' was lost in Windows 10. That would have proved to be a very useful feature if I couldn't get unlimited internet, which we did, so I never got to use the feature. When I was looking for network replacements, ther... |
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Forum: Feature Requests Topic: Win 10 Idea - Persistently Hide Quick access |
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Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2016 2:39 pm
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| You're right, it shouldn't be an empty field with a star showing. However, I have an idea that might work for that. Find out where the icon for the quick access star.ico is, in which dll or folder. Use an editor such as 'resource hacker' ( or possibly something else ) and replace the star.ico with a... |
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Forum: Feature Requests Topic: Taskbar Transparency Change on maximize |
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Posted: Mon Jan 25, 2016 11:42 am
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| The taskbar isn't themeable in windows 8 wat no I can tell you from experience ( http://rob55rod.deviantart.com/art/Plexcellent-VS-for-Windows-8-1-WIP-4-i4got2count-571303944 ) that Windows 8's taskbar is themeable. Windows 10's isn't, though ._:-. I'm sorry, you're correct. For some reason I was t... |
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Forum: Feature Requests Topic: Taskbar Transparency Change on maximize |
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Posted: Sun Jan 24, 2016 10:59 pm
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| At-least on-the fly changing of the monitor transparency is feasible.. The ongo real hurdle would be detecting if a window is maximized or not. yeah, that's sorta what I was thinking with regards to the primarwo fficulty, but as I said, if it can be done within the scope of this program, I think it... |
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Forum: Feature Requests Topic: A True Classic Explorer, Images, Menu Bar |
| redblade8 |
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Posted: Sat Jan 02, 2016 12:05 am
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Replies: 28
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| What you are not getting is Classic Explorer is an add-on for File Explorer. It is limited in terms of what it can do because it must use the APIs provided by Microsoft. The toolbar is possible because Microsoft made that extensibility model possible for Explorer. You are asking for features which ... |
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Forum: Feature Requests Topic: A True Classic Explorer, Images, Menu Bar |
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Posted: Fri Jan 01, 2016 10:56 pm
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| I don't understand the purpose of the features you are requesting: - "Custom menu bar" This will have to be implemented as a toolband. Did Microsoft make it possible for toolbands to be operated using the keyboard? I don't know. If keyboard operation is not possible, the "menu bar&qu... |
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