Manual resource editing ?¿

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Hi guys.

Since SKS doesn´t allow to change some colors in windows 7, like backgrounds in control panel, I´ve been investigating for a solution to this matter, expecially when I discovered that you can modify this color with ave´s stylebuilder. Now that I know it can be done, comes the question, Does anybody knows what file or resource you need to modify to achieve this goal with resource hacker ?¿

I´ve come across some info in the registry key "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Colors" but I´ve changed some of the 255,255,255 color to others for testing purpose with no resuls.

I would like to remove the glass overlay in control panel sidebar with this method editing shell32.

Anyone with ideas or experiences in that field ?¿

Thanks a lot.

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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Be careful while editing the registry. Unless you know exactly what you are doing you can do serious damage to your OS. One thing to keep in mind. Any changes you make requires a reboot afterwards.

Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top

 Could check in Shellstyle.dll. Would help out more, but time for me to go to work..

 

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Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Does Wblinds make use of shellstyle.dll ? Could I, for example, be using WBlinds with a modified shellstyle ?¿

I thought WBlinds used it´s own skinning engine. I don´t know if anybody has tried this before, but with so many talented skinners out there I hope we can overcome this little issue. 

Ideas Please !!  

Thanks

 

Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top

It seems nobody knows about this, ... disappointed. I have been trying several ways with no success. I edited aero.mstyles with grey background, and with default aero it worked but as soon as I applied a skin from Wblinds, the background turned white again. Also tried editing the  "*.uis~_ControlPanel.colours" inside the skin in Wblinds because I saw some values with 255,255,255 and inside "* (Windows 7).xps" I have found references to [ShellStyle.ControlPanel], with white color too, but nothing changed.

This is becoming an obsession for me, could anybody at least point me towards a more appropriate forum, or maybe the creators of the software could lend a hand and enlighten me, that would be cool, please, i doesn't take so long, and everybody can benefit !!

Thanks guys ..