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Forum: Start Buttons Topic: Crystal Ball Start Button |
Splitwirez |
Posted: Sun Jan 01, 2017 12:23 pm
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Woah...that looks amazing. Are the source images yours? O.o
...and...any chance of one with a Windows flag of some sort on it? (I'm curious as to how you'll interpret that :3 ) |
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Forum: Start Buttons Topic: ._. Start Buttons [TAKING REQUESTS] |
Splitwirez |
Posted: Sun Jan 01, 2017 12:21 pm
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Alright, I'll see what I can do. I might have to hunt down the original MsStyles to get the raw images, though... |
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Forum: Feature Requests Topic: Making taskbar text stand out |
Splitwirez |
Posted: Fri Dec 30, 2016 5:37 pm
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scooterrodriguez wrote: That's great, Splitwirez, but how does one do that?
...by modifying an MsStyles file and using a UxTheme patch to apply it? Like I said above...? |
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: Request: someone to do the "hard work"... |
Splitwirez |
Posted: Thu Dec 29, 2016 8:37 am
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See attached. Alternatively, you could use emblems... |
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Forum: Feature Requests Topic: Making taskbar text stand out |
Splitwirez |
Posted: Thu Dec 29, 2016 7:46 am
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scooterrodriguez wrote: I want to believe. Then believe you shall. All it takes is a few small changes to an MsStyles and a UxTheme patch or alternative.
See? Text glow |
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Forum: Taskbar Skins Topic: My first taskbar skin |
Splitwirez |
Posted: Thu Dec 29, 2016 7:31 am
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juniper7 wrote: Splitwirez, the 1/3 bliss sky, is the taskbar. I think it looks ok as top large taskbar.
wait what
...but...it's the Sky...from the Bliss Wallpaper...not the Taskbar...WAT?? ._:-. |
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Forum: Taskbar Skins Topic: My first taskbar skin |
Splitwirez |
Posted: Wed Dec 28, 2016 7:48 pm
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JonahHex wrote: Another with Windows XP look.
a) That's about a 3rd of a screenshot, and not the 3rd that has the Taskbar in it b) We already have a ton of XP/Luna Taskbars |
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Forum: Start Buttons Topic: custom start button dimensions? |
Splitwirez |
Posted: Wed Dec 28, 2016 7:45 pm
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Uhh...you folks are aware there's a button size setting, correct? |
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Forum: Feature Requests Topic: Windows Chicago/93 Start Menu(s) Style |
Splitwirez |
Posted: Mon Dec 26, 2016 1:21 pm
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Simply use <no skin> to make the start menu look like Chicago's. You will need to apply the classic skin with 1 column first. ...no...that doesn't make it look like Chicago's at all...for starters (pun not intended), and beyond that, since posting this, I've realized how impractical it would be... |
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Forum: Feature Requests Topic: Microsoft Windows 10 (B1607) Anniversary Update Clock? |
Splitwirez |
Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2016 10:57 am
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powerplayer wrote: The 7 wifi bar is also there in the dlls
WAT HOW HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW |
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Forum: Chitchat Topic: AHK on top of Classic Shell...anyone know this class name? |
Splitwirez |
Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2016 10:12 am
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Ivo wrote: The class name for the user image is "ClassicShell.CUserWindow".
Thanks.
And now, I just have to figure out why AutoHotKey refuses to even touch the User Image now that I have the Class name |
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Forum: Chitchat Topic: AHK on top of Classic Shell...anyone know this class name? |
Splitwirez |
Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2016 7:16 am
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Question...if the class name for the Classic Shell Start Menu is "ClassicShell.CMenuContainer", then...does anyone know what it is for the User Image? 'cause that seems to be separate...
(Yeah, I tried the AHK Window Spy, it didn't get anything .-. ) |
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Forum: Start Buttons Topic: Windows XP Start Button |
Splitwirez |
Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2016 1:11 pm
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SebastianOnofrei4454 wrote: I was using a third party VS in the screenshot and that third party VS changes the taskbar tray arrow to be an XP one.
Huh, I was right. |
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Forum: Start Buttons Topic: [Animated] 'Mysterious' Windows Icon Start orb........ |
Splitwirez |
Posted: Sun Dec 18, 2016 12:01 pm
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WOAH NICE ORB |
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Forum: Chitchat Topic: Show your desktop and Classic Shell Start Menu |
Splitwirez |
Posted: Sat Dec 17, 2016 3:54 am
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juniper7 wrote: Is this reality, or is the probe still in our brain?
It's reality. The only person with something in their brain is me, and it's just AutoHotKey |
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Forum: Chitchat Topic: Show your desktop and Classic Shell Start Menu |
Splitwirez |
Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2016 2:58 pm
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Forum: Start Buttons Topic: Windows XP Start Button |
Splitwirez |
Posted: Mon Dec 12, 2016 7:15 pm
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SebastianOnofrei4454 How did you get that arrow in taskbar? Does it function? http://www.classicshell.net/forum/download/file.php?id=4242 That arrow is one of the only parts of the Windows 10 Taskbar which still uses an image from the Visual Style, and the screenshot clearly shows a Luna Visual Sty... |
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Forum: Feature Requests Topic: Windows RT 8.1 Update 3 Start Menu Style...? |
Splitwirez |
Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2016 4:21 pm
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It is not possible to display the start screen inside another window. It is using a completely different and incompatible technology. Start8 simply finds the main window of the menu and resizes it. It doesn't mix two menus in a single UI. Besides, that trick only worked for Windows 8. ...it's reall... |
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Forum: Feature Requests Topic: Windows RT 8.1 Update 3 Start Menu Style...? |
Splitwirez |
Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2016 4:12 pm
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Sorry, currently there are no plans to implement tiles in the foreseeable future. ...figures .__. Live tiles are impossible (without reverse engineering and rewriting a large portion of the OS). As with that other thread, I didn't think you'd try to make them Live... Even dead tiles are a lot of wo... |
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Forum: Feature Requests Topic: Windows RT 8.1 Update 3 Start Menu Style...? |
Splitwirez |
Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2016 3:22 pm
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Splitwirez wrote:
I apologize for the redundancy of this thread .-. |
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: Can anyone figure out why my RADIOGROUP isn't displaying? |
Splitwirez |
Posted: Sat Dec 10, 2016 9:38 am
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Title says it all. Working on a skin, can't get a RADIOGROUP option to display in the list. Here's the skin itself: DOWNLOAD
Can anyone figure out what's up with this? .-. |
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: Modern XP Luna skin |
Splitwirez |
Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2016 4:34 am
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Guys...I think he means more like this:
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Forum: Taskbar Skins Topic: OS Styled Taskbar Skin Compilation |
Splitwirez |
Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2016 7:31 am
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Lax1143 wrote: Do you if any one ever does Gator skin
what |
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Forum: Start Buttons Topic: Not Safe for Work/Adult Content-Woman without clothes button |
Splitwirez |
Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2016 10:30 am
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You know, that warning would likely be a lot more useful if it was in the thread's title, even if it's just a little "[NSFW]" or "[MATURE]" or something. I was a little jarred by the preview animation after opening what looked like an sufficiently-innocent thread, so I figured I'... |
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: Xp luna 7skin |
Splitwirez |
Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2016 4:38 am
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I can't multi-DPI to save my life, whether it's CSM, Visual Styles, whatever... ;~; |
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Forum: Feature Requests Topic: Disable start button hover animation |
Splitwirez |
Posted: Sat Dec 03, 2016 4:49 pm
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You can use an animated button to use the same frame for all states .-. |
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: Xp luna 7skin |
Splitwirez |
Posted: Sat Dec 03, 2016 1:15 pm
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idk if I'll ever finish it, so here's what I've got so far .-. |
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Forum: Feature Requests Topic: Override Taskbar Font/Font Size? |
Splitwirez |
Posted: Sat Dec 03, 2016 1:14 pm
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Title says it all. This request is twofold:
1. I figure it'd probably be of general use to someone.
2. If my hypothesis regarding the Windows 10 Classic Theme Taskbar text issue is correct, this would most likely fix that.
k so uh
I guess that's that? |
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: Modern XP Luna skin |
Splitwirez |
Posted: Fri Dec 02, 2016 8:31 pm
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Weboh wrote: Do you mean like this one? That's not modern, that's glass-coloured .-.
Weboh wrote: It picks up on Metro colors. No it doesn't, it picks up on glass colour .-. |
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Forum: Feature Requests Topic: Blur effects for transparent taskbar and start menu |
Splitwirez |
Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2016 6:18 pm
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SoulEdgeX wrote: Too bad. Maybe I should update my laptop to Windows 10. No, you...really shouldn't
SoulEdgeX wrote: The Aero Glass program didn't work but thanks anyways. Woah hold on, are you sure you installed it correctly? What DID happen when you installed it? |
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Forum: Start Buttons Topic: Longhorn "Spinning Earth" Start Orb |
Splitwirez |
Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2016 3:16 pm
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...honestly I can't to any decent extent...I don't have the original layered version of the animation .-. |
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Forum: Feature Requests Topic: Blur effects for transparent taskbar and start menu |
Splitwirez |
Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2016 6:11 am
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Gaurav wrote: Of if you have Aero Glass for Windows 8 installed: http://www.glass8.eu/ then blur will be available on Windows 8/8.1.
(Although the option to enable it on the Taskbar will, ironically, be labelled "Opaque") |
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: Experiment Plex Replay (Classic style) |
Splitwirez |
Posted: Sun Nov 27, 2016 10:12 am
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Splitwirez, do you have any plans to make into a Windows 7 VS? If not, can you provide a PNG of the taskbar and button so I can kind of replicate it using Classic Shell? Maybe someday. But almost definitely not until the 8.1 version is finished. In the meantime, the button and menu are in the 8.1 p... |
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Forum: Chitchat Topic: Show your desktop and Classic Shell Start Menu |
Splitwirez |
Posted: Sun Nov 27, 2016 10:10 am
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juniper7 wrote: No, Splitwirez . What's that? A theme, or start menu? If you're referring to the mention of Plexcellent Windows 10 edition, it's a Visual Style which comes with a Start Menu, among other things. However, the Start Menu itself will be the same between the Windows 8.1 and Windows 10 editions. |
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Forum: Chitchat Topic: Show your desktop and Classic Shell Start Menu |
Splitwirez |
Posted: Sat Nov 26, 2016 2:47 pm
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On your transparent plexy theme. Plexcellent. It's a nice touch to have user picture way over on left side of 7 style menu, with the large offset. https://www.betaarchive.com/imageupload/1253386516.or.354001.png Wasn't even my idea tbh...it was from an official Microsoft concept :lol: Wish there wa... |
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Forum: Chitchat Topic: Show your desktop and Classic Shell Start Menu |
Splitwirez |
Posted: Sat Nov 26, 2016 11:15 am
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juniper7 wrote: I started to figure arrows were the only way, before lights out.
Oh, okay |
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: Experiment Plex Replay (Classic style) |
Splitwirez |
Posted: Sat Nov 26, 2016 10:58 am
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Hello again, I recently found this skin from another site and I found this image... http://winaero.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/10-Plex-Replay-full-UI.png I like transparent,Windows Aero themed menus,so I got it. I never found any settings for opacity and I was wondering if there's a way to ... |
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Forum: Chitchat Topic: Show your desktop and Classic Shell Start Menu |
Splitwirez |
Posted: Sat Nov 26, 2016 5:44 am
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I don't know how to make a scrollbar like that. Wasn't hard...bit hacky, but not hard... I thought it had to be symetrical at each end. It is symmetrical. Are there overlay emblems at the ends? No, I used the arrow glyphs :lol: WAIT, THERE'S A WAY TO MAKE EMBLEMS NOT ALWAYS VISIBLE!? O.0.o The curv... |
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Forum: Start Buttons Topic: Longhorn "Spinning Earth" Start Orb |
Splitwirez |
Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2016 8:17 pm
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Welp, someone had to do it
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Forum: Chitchat Topic: Show your desktop and Classic Shell Start Menu |
Splitwirez |
Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2016 5:33 pm
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There, now there's an actual menu to see |
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: Request: someone to do the "hard work"... |
Splitwirez |
Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2016 2:18 pm
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You know, it might be a bit easier if we could see some samples of what you have in mind, be it the Rainmeter skins themselves or a mockup of the matching menu you have in mind... |
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: Xp luna 7skin |
Splitwirez |
Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2016 10:54 am
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Splitwirez If you haven't done it already, I can provide the parts for Luna scrollbar, for inside menu. It's all set up ready to go with script text included. Oh my god thank you Now I have somewhere to start whilst I learn how to do custom scrollbars for CSM Start Menus (Which is kind of a big dea... |
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: Windows 8.1 Start Menu skin matching Taskbar color? |
Splitwirez |
Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2016 12:17 pm
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Nobody here is going to make a skin which has already been made. And I'm not talking about the stock one. I'm talking about WIN7LIKE. |
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: XP LUNA Variations (Classic 1 and 2) |
Splitwirez |
Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2016 4:59 am
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juniper7 wrote: The only purple menu I could use longer than half an hour.
May I interpret that as a challenge? :3 |
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Forum: Chitchat Topic: Show your desktop and Classic Shell Start Menu |
Splitwirez |
Posted: Sun Nov 20, 2016 2:37 pm
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Start Menu hasn't changed since the last shot of Reflect, hence its absence, but meeh, VS improvements |
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Forum: Start Buttons Topic: 'Flying Kiss Lady' Start Button for Classic Shell |
Splitwirez |
Posted: Sun Nov 20, 2016 11:32 am
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'Splitwirez' & 'juniper7' thanks for the quick response........your suggestions are really helpful........i can hopefully now try to make some animated buttons for the shell............you guys can really keep this forum alive...............thanks a lot:):):):):):) Any time ^-^ And best of luck... |
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Forum: Start Buttons Topic: 'Flying Kiss Lady' Start Button for Classic Shell |
Splitwirez |
Posted: Sat Nov 19, 2016 6:32 am
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Thanks for the comment 'juniper7'.......i was just trying to make some different & entertaining start buttons which are not boring. The classic shell is highly customizable and everyone should make use of this ability. I really want to make some 'animated start buttons' but can't figure out how... |
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Forum: Feature Requests Topic: 3-D look when using custom taskbar color |
Splitwirez |
Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2016 7:10 pm
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It requires Visual Styles, but nobody said it requires DWM... :lol: (Hint: Using a Basic theme won't kill your battery AFAIK, and will still let you use the Taskbar Skinning Functionality) Right, but the classic theme is the only non-DWM visual style that I know of that lets you change colors for t... |
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Forum: Feature Requests Topic: 3-D look when using custom taskbar color |
Splitwirez |
Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2016 12:08 pm
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Ah. That's a bummer. I like the way you can customize the classic theme in different titlebar colors and everything, which is not the case if I use any third-party style besides an Aero one. And I'd rather not have Aero on lots of the time to save battery life. It requires Visual Styles, but nobody... |
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Forum: Feature Requests Topic: Suggestion: WMP Shell |
Splitwirez |
Posted: Sun Nov 13, 2016 3:32 pm
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Thanks but I mean the whole thingy through and through ... I know, but that was the only pre-WMP12 feature I know how to restore (probably because WMP12 is the first and only version of WMP I've actually used) :lol: Also...wouldn't it make more sense to call a feature like this "Classic WMP&qu... |
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