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Simple. Ever since this thread was created I had to chuckle about the name. It's just so poorly chosen; you keep reminding me of House all the time! Yesterday I finally couldn't hold back anymore. Btw, it seems like you're a bit fresh to the concept of internet forums (despite your postcount)-- don't expect people (or at least people like me) to be interested in joining a different forum JUST for one guy with one project. It sounds a bit to me like the old days in school with secret 'clubs' and 'clubhouses', every once in a while someone would try to form his own 'club' and be like "If you want to play with me you'll have to leave this club and join mine". Subsequently nobody would go with him and after a few days he'd come back cause being alone in his own super rad 'club' wasn't such fun after all... Anyway, moral of the story is: MSFN is the place to be when it comes to unofficial 98SE projects and I see no reason to go to this super rad "Windows Projects Community" of yours. Why did you create such a redundant forum anyway?

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I really hated the Metapad that ships with the Auto-Patcher, so I downloaded NotepadEx, changed the icon to the Vista Notepad icon and replaced all occurrances of "NotepadEx" with "Notepad" in a hexeditor. So it basically looks like vanilla notepad but with some extra features. In case anyone wants it: http://rapidshare.com/files/66506716/NOTEPAD.EXE.html I find that it blends in very well with RP7.

I've just upgraded to the Lameskin preview, and updated my Vista Standard skin to work with it. Here it is: http://rapidshare.com/files/64900217/Vista_Standard.zip.html

Your ability to apologise extensively like this is admirable. Good work. It's 6am here though, and I'm going to be cranky in the morning (technically it IS already morning), but I'm not intending on taking it out on anyone (except inanimate objects). Maybe that's an attitude to strive towards?

Actually, that was just a screenshot, as I never really finished it, and thus didn't feel a need to release it. However, I've been using it like this for ages and it doesn't really look unfinished, so here it is: http://rapidshare.com/files/64736368/Vista_Standard.zip.html It's an RP7 skin though, I haven't upgraded to RP8 preview yet. Enjoy!

Flapper, I would bite the bullet and install Win98SE on your laptop. You can then load it with Auto-Patcher and 98SE2ME, and most of your problems will be solved. If you then for any reason feel you want to modify your system further, I can also recommend KernelEx and Revolutions Pack (but that will upgrade your system "beyond" 98SE's main functionality).

Red = 8 bit Green = 8 bit Blue = 8 bit Total = 24 bit 2^24 = 16777216 = 16.7 million possible colours Red = 8 bit Green = 8 bit Blue = 8 bit Alpha = 8 bit Total = 32 bit Alpha means transparency channel (2^24 = 16777216 = 16.7 million possible colours) + (2^8 = 256 possible shades of translucency where 0 is transparent and 255 is opaque) So basically, with 32 bits you can have millions of colours in gradual variations of transparency. This opposed to indexed transparency where a colour can be either opaque or transparent, but nothing in between, causing jagged edges.