[how do i create a theme myself, that can run w/o 3rd party softwares]

how do i create a new theme fromscratch, i mean i want to put bitmaps and jpegs every where in sthe start menu program and the task bar etc, how do i do it, which file to crack opemnn, the shellstyle.dll

how do i tell this file to show a bitmap in the start menu bar, edit UIFile???

i just need simple guide, i already knwo alittle bit and a LITTLE more will help alot

[Live Messenger Emotions Location?]

But these are the DT2 and ID2 file formats

how to edit them

my questio is however different

While chatting with my friends, they exchange giffs and images with a reso greater than 96x96, i tried to use the interface Microsoft has provided to add your own emoticon but that reduces the size of your image back to 96x96?

How the others are doing it, how can i add a emoticon witha reso gr8er than 96x96

are we supposed to use some application software to crack open these DT2 ID2 extension files?????

what is FileMon?

[What Anti-Virus do you Use/Recommend?]

whats so special in this NOD32 which i am hearing for the first time wheres Norton, McAfee, Symantec were considered big names in my city

can soem1 provide NOD32 intro and its edge on others

[logonui is changed by my win xp]

thanks guys all of you for posting

[logonui is changed by my win xp]

short version is that windows system restore is restoring the file

you can use this utility to replace the file for you

http://www3.telus.net/_/replacer/

there are ways to manually do it but this ones kinda nice cause it has undo features and such

can u tell me the manual way

is the software (the easy way u mentioned) a freeware or trial

[Windows Classic Logon Screen]

what is unattended windows????

[logonui is changed by my win xp]

I changed my home pc's logonui, it changed easily, that xp is i think Windows XO SP2

Now when i pasted the same file (4.something MB) in my office system32 folder, it changes back after sometime

please help, theres no extra software installed???

[Edit the Win XP Welcome Screen]

Here's a great resource that will help you!

link

And by the way... we have a whole section for logonui and bootscreens. Look around a little next time before posting.

Google, c'mon, please help & please don't get angry for what i did, i know i did wrong to ask a very famous question that according to you is itself a category on these forums, i m not here to create spam

But i was so impatient, & i am human, to err is human right

You sent me Google link to look for it myself, i did that ALREADY & thats how I found YOU, MSFN.org, i made a mistake to make you nagry, you made even bigger, now i am trying to find where is that category/section. Currently i am looking in Win XP Visual Tweaks, may be its not there, if you are online & ready to HELP, please guide if i am searching the wrong place

[Edit the Win XP Welcome Screen]

How to change the Win XP Welcome Screen background (one with the pics of all users on the PC as buttons)?

I want to do it my self that is either edit the graphics after locating the files or editing the registry (HKEY USERS ....)

Please don't tell names of freewares that do all.

[Introduction to me]

In the name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful

My name is Mohammad Abdul Qadir, I am male, 23, from Karachi, Pakistan

I am a software engineer (C Tech - SC Securities), you can see my work here: http://www.scstrade.com

I am graduate, BS from PAF-Karachi Institute of Economics & Technology, I am currently enrolled in my MS (Software Engineering) from SZABIST. I am also busy in my IS1 (Interoperability with SOA)

Topics of Interests:

Business Agility with SOA

BPM

Enterprise Integration & INteroperability