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Published: 2008-09-06 03:12:01 +0000 UTC; Views: 1036350; Favourites: 611; Downloads: 561400
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Description
Here is what has been my latest obsession since the last update to Vega, stage 2 ProjectX. (made with fresh resources, the original ProjectX was not recycled)--------------------------------------------------
Download includes:
-Visual Style - any version of Windows Vista (32bit or 64bit)
-browseui.dll - requires 32bit Vista w/SP1
-and shell32.dll - requires 32bit Vista w/SP1
-Installation Instructions
After applying the Visual Style, set your color to "Graphite" and your color intensity control to about 5-10% (real low). The reason is even though the borders are made black, Vista still adds a very slight tint to the default color.
x64 System Files by ~2bfree
ProjectX 2 ObjectBar by ~sweatyfish
IconPackage Used by ~mrskope
Matching WMP Skin by ~StopDreaming:
Miranda Skin by ~Cyntar7
Legal:
Modifications are allowed. No permission needed. Credit to me as the original author required. You must share your work under the same license.
For help using Visual Styles, click here.
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Comments: 447
sweatyfish. I'm embarrased! I seem to be the only one here that wasn't able to get this to work. I am running Vista Home Basic x64 with SP1 and I've run your ProjectX VS before by patching the three dll's and placing the ProjectX VS folder in C:\Windows\Resources\Themes.
It always worked flawlessly.
However I reformatted recently and thought it was about time that I put some life into Home Basic x64. Just to be thorough, I thought I would download a fresh copy of ProjectX VS, figuring that you may have made some improvements.
When I got to your site on Deviant Art, I saw that you mentioned that ProjectX VS was now outdated and that you a new project out, ProjectX 2.
When I got to the ProjectX 2 page I saw that the download includes: "Visual Style - any version of Windows Vista (32bit or 64bit)", so I thought I was set. So I downloaded the .RAR file and opened it up and read your instructions, which confuses me, because in there you say "64 bit will come later"
But being stubborn I went ahead and tried to get it to work anyway. I did everything right and patched the two .dll files, then copied the theme folder to C:\Windows\Resources\Themes. Just for safe measure, I rebooted.
By the way, I did not use the VistaGlazz application because I figured that by manually talking ownership of the files and renaming them, that I would be doing the same thing. I hope I'm right about that thinking!
While booting back up though I got an error message and I wasn't even able to make it to the desktop. Just a black screen. Same goes for Safe mode.
So I has to use the repair option on the Vista DVD and go into System Restore and go back to before it all was installed. Then I rebooted and everything was fine.
Then I went back to your site and saw underneath your "Download includes" this link:
"x64 System Files by ~2bfree" and I thought, "hey dummy, that's it! You tried to patch the system files with x32 bit system files. These x64 bit system files are what you need.
So I downloaded them and went through the whole procedure again. Then after my reboot I did like you said and clicked Personalize\Windows Color and Appearance\Open classic appearance properties for more color options.
When the Appearance properties popped up though, I saw no mention of Windows Aero options, let alone any reference to ProjectX 2.
I even tried directly clicking on the ProjectX 2 ms style file and that did nothing. Then I even tried going through the Themes Option under Personalize. No good either.
Ok, so I am humbled now! What did I do wrong? And is this style for Vista Basic x64 or not? Obviously the system files I downloaded from 2bfree were x64 and they installed just fine. But is this not working because I run x64 Home Basic, which has no Aero?
I eagerly wait for your answer because I really, really wanted to have this installed. If it comes back that it just won't work, for one reason or another, that's fine, I can live with that. Or if I have to wait for a different version of Projectx 2, one that will work with my setup, that's fine also.
In the meantime, I'll just go back to using ProjectX VS, while I wait. By the way, did you ever make any modifications to that style? If I'm going to run it, I'd like to have the latest version.
Sorry about writing such a long report. I'm very detail-oriented, as you can tell!
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isn't that the same taskbar from BW_Thin by dimage but with a different start button?
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Nope that is sweatyfish own work definitely not my task bar
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cool, just thought it looked familiar. haven't seen much from you lately dimage! thought maybe you turned into sweatyfish haha
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ProjectX 2 For Firefox
[link]
Download :[link]
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impressive... your screenshot was with the basic theme, right? looked so, cuz with aero there's a grey band beside the menu bar goin all the way to the firefox logo on the right... me no know what the problem is...any help? thnx
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is there a specific way to the instructions or just anyway.
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I like the frames. Not liking the thin task bar or uber tiny minimize, maximize buttons. Doesn't meet the standards of Fitt's Law too well. But the frames I like. The menu highlight is not too pretty. The Favorite Links section is blah... too dark. Only thing I like is the frames really. Good effort though.
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Perhaps you will start making styles?
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Love to but don't have the time.
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Hmm, I know what you are talking about. You are thinking of how some XP themes would have the smaller portion of the start menu on the right side. And only icons would be on the right side. I don't think this is possible with Vista (not right now at least).
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Hello, I was looking a compact start menu called Royal Vista II Final in: [link] an I was thinkingn that if many Vista themes work in Seven it could be possible or I am wrong? I'm not programmer neither engineer or so but try to apply common sense and a bit of logical knowledge. Anyway, your work is really nice and you deserve the best. Kind regards and go on doing such good things.
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HEY GUYS PLEASE HELP.... i changed the shell32.dll and i restarted the computer... now it wont let me go to windows screen and it goes to this black screen +{{{{{{ plz help
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can some1 plz tell me how to use it?? =/ i have a vista ultimate 64 bit that has already been patched... TY
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Something I forgot telling you. I have Windows Vista Home Premium SP3 installed and TuneUp Utilities 2008; there's no problem installing the theme; I just entered >Visual Style< and went to the folder I unzziped it, choose the proper file and got installed at once. Thanks again. Regards.
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Hello! Really nice, like better than WVHP original, there's only one bit of suggestion.I'm just a user. I would like Start Menu being even more compact. That's instead of names of items just put icons and a tooltip for each of them; and at the bottom instead of three icons: Suspend, Block and Arrow (Close, Restart, Close Session, etc... Block) you could take off Block Button since it appears again in Arrow Icon, there you can gain more space. Hope I've been clear enough I'm not English writer, I'm from Argentina and Spanish is my mother tonge. Thanks for this piece of art. Regards.
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i dont know if im slow or somthing but im a computer programing major and i still cant get any themes on this site to work can some one help me
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Oh, and be sure to have User Account Control off.
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The only help I can give is if you look in the left pane here: [link]
Or you may be able to understand Vathanx's better here: [link]
By following the instructions, you should be able to get them to work. They are well explained and can't really provide any more help than that.
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i had the same problem with the dll's...
i used the "take ownership"-thing and shut off the UAC but still it didnt work...
so i tried it this way (it even worked with the UAC turned on):
1. right-click the dll and click on "PROPERTIES". then click "SAFETY" (i dunno if its called this because i use a german version of vista) at the top - you should see a list with the different users of the computer and below a list where the permissions for the users of the computer are listed. click on "extended" (?) situated below the second list.
2. in the new window click on "PERMISSIONS" at the top and again you see a list. on my computer i have seen that the ADMINSTRATOR only had the permissions to read and execute. so i clicked EDIT which is situated below the list.
3. a new window appears. it nearly looks the same as the prior window. click on ADMINSTRATOR in the list of this window and then on EDIT below the list.
4. in the new window set an hook to permit full access.
5. click ok then apply....
you should be able now the rename the file.
to this with both of the dll's...
- i assume no liability for damages - use this at your own risk!!!!!
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wow, really outdid yourself
viva cairo!
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I wanna have this theme, does this work on vista ultimate 32bit??, I'm downloading SP1 from Microsoft just to have this theme
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Wish I had your resources to work with for VS`s.
Amazing work. This has become my new favorite VS. It also has me having second thoughts about my current VS project lol.
Great work again.
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plz help man i cant install shell32.dll ive taken ownership on both but once i changer origonal shell32.dll to shell32.old or shell30.dll it doesent let me move to the new one in and vice verca i tried to overwrite it, no luck and move it to that folder before done whch led to the origonal being called shell32.dll and the new called shell32(2).dll and if i rename the old one to anything else it doesnt let me rename the new and vice verca because if i change new it says to overwrite and it wont do that... is there some kind of program or something to do, i just cant get it to go the other one browseui.dll can be renamed to old and the new to .dll it only seems to be the shel32.dll trust me ive had to reboot my computer to out-of-box many times i just want an answer that will work plz plz plz...
thankng you in advance for your great theme too, Justin.
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Are making sure that User Account Control is off before you start replacing files?
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what what... user account controls? dont know about that so uhhh no could you help with that.
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Great job. i need help the theme looks fine but the icons of the folders dont change i need help please?
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The icons are by mrskope. You need iconpackager to apply them. See the link in my description.
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thank you but wat do u do with the .ip file??? please i really eant it thx grea theme.
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followed your instructions to the word, installed vistaglazz. I placed the project x2 folder in themes directory, I'm stuck. when I select "open classic appearance properties for more color options" there is nothing having to with any windows aero options. It only gives me a list of color schemes to select from none of which are project x2
any help would be appreciated also this is my first attempt at modding vista im a noob so please dont flame me too bad. thanks
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The classic appearance properties window doesn't have color options, it should show multiple entries of "Windows Aero" and it should be one of those.
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If you did it right one of those color schemes is ProjectX 2. Just click on one of the color schemes named Windows Aero, hopefully you have more than one Windows Aero scheme, and click apply.
Vista for some reason will not name new visual styles anything other than Windows Aero or Windows Vista Basic. There is a fix for this somewhere on the web but I am to lazy to apply it to my PC.
Hope that Helps.
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I love this Skin, but for some reason the hacked shell32.dll kills all sound( support) on my system.
Dell XPS M1530
VISTA HomePremium SP1
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And I also have the exact same computer.
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I'm not sure about that. I'm not sure that shell32.dll has anything to do with sound.
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I like it as much as you do :/ Dunno how it possibly could affect sound system. Will do research on the matter and report by then
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very nice skin. i would use it, if i had vista ^^.
but i think XP is running much better
greets
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ehh. i havent read all the comments, so dont know if someone suggested this earlier.. but would it be possible for you to release a shell32.dll with the shell style on the top...
dont know if this is the technical term or not.. but heres an example : [link]
you can see in the explorer windows how all the extra info is on the top, instead of the bottom of each window.
i love your theme. im just accustomed to using topshell style...
so is this possible?
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I have no plans for this, sorry.
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Hi, I'm having issues with the system registries. I followed the instructions per every word, and I had the SP1 installed, but now i can't load windows. it sits at a black screen and gives me a physicall memory issue error relating to kernel32.dll. the same probrlem arrises when i try to load in safe mode as well. any solutions or do i need to find a vista disc to help repair?
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It seems that you didn't replace the .dll files correctly. This can happen if you didn't turn off User Account Control. If you can, use an Ubuntu live CD (or the other operating system if you dual boot), look into the drive with Vista installed, and fix the problem by making sure you have both system files correctly named.
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that look good, thx.
my question is: how you change the folder icons, which program
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The icons are by mrskope. You need iconpackager to apply them. See the link in my description.
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This is great, well done.
Any chance of a FF3 theme? :3
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