Tihiy

Run those commands (assuming you have win98 installed in c:\windows): cd \windows\revbckup attrib -r -s -h system.dat attrib -r -s -h user.dat move /Y *.* c:\windows cd system move /Y *.* c:\windows\system

Restore system files from \windows\revbckup under dos manually.

Well, of course. New topic, new site, new manuals etc. It would be nice if had more power over my topics...

I believe that Nero problems can be solved by using compatibility mode: right-click nero shortcut->Compatibility->Troubleshoot - Use compatibility mode (or "Disable LameSkin"). And yes, RP8 will solve problems for those who can't read. In the future, please, constrain from creating themes with RP questions not in RP thread.

In 2008 for sure

What's with the those threads "anyone who can answer it"??? I can answer. Ask me in RP thread or via PM. Why do you start new thread? Furthermore, your question is pointless since RP7 logo in \logo.sys and you can edit it with graphical editor like standard logo.

I'm sorry to say this, Elvis and others, but wmpband.dll won't ever work on 9x systems. [i was sure it has left the building long time ago?]

And why the heck are you asking here?! There is a RP main thread just a bit upper! They are not.

I've used both, and they're both heavily buggy. Paragon NTFS worked almost correctly, but completely hangs while initalizing on some systems (i dunno if it is related to SATA/RAID or LBA48 problems). Sysinternals works for me, but writing feature once corrupted my files, and reading is slow and can completely hang system in some cases. It may work better with some other NT/2K/XP file versions, through...

Looks very well and stable to me! When i'm trying to compile DLL under Delphi 7, there is LongBool/BOOL type mismatch in MyGetCharacterPlacementA and MyGetCharacterPlacementW. If i change them to Integer (as it should be i think), it compiles ok (137KB instead of 191KB), but crashes at startup. Is it your fault or my fault? What could cause those crashes with D7?

mslocusr.dll

Because he can I want my own forum or sub-forum too. And a nice web page. What so bad about it?

I see a way... Replace shell=explorer.exe in [boot] section in \windows\system.ini with shell=command.com for example. Copy SP2 exe file somewhere, for example into C:\ Then boot into Win98 and in command prompt which appears you can start SP2 exe. If you're really advanced, you can extract files from SP2 exe and SP2.cab inside and replace them on system one by one...

I want to say one thing: HIGHLY AWESOME! :thumbup You deserve carte blanche to ask for any LameSkin future feature in RP topic

mufunyo I've done the same, but i've hacked it to use Lucida Console, 10 font by default. I'll upload it if someone wants. NotepadEx is a really good application beside some minor problems (it does not ask to create non-existent file passed, and does not detect encodings reliably).

Dunno. If you want to require user to press Ctrl-Alt-Delete, that's weird, but probably possible with coding. But i think it is easier to reshack mprserv.dll to make it look like 2k/XP one.

ResHacker. There is "Customizing Windows" forum for such questions.

No matter how you optimize it, it will slow things down. Win98 version seems to work faster, but anyway, you must know - it uses: - MS HTML rendering engine, which is slow and buggy; - MS HTML CSS engine, which is slow and buggy; - MS HTML image engine, which is slow and buggy; - MS HTML JScript/VBScript engine, which is slow and buggy. But maybe some magical tricks possible...

Black text with black shadow?

^^ very nice. I suggest you to make active/inactive borders & title a bit more distinguishable.

Your SilverXP needs to use new undocumented LameSkin8 features which allow to change caption text shadow: [Global] ActiveShadow=0 (1 to enable - default) ActiveShadowColor=R G B (0 0 0 - black by default) InactiveShadow=0 (1 to enable) InActiveShadowColor=R G B

Yeah, wait for LameSkin8 update. BTW, there was a great Vista Standard skin somewhere in RP topic.

Well, WildBill, if you're creating TClock for community, and not just for yourself, then i have an advice... drop all features and code you don't need or want! That's how i usually do. Don't listen to anyone whining. Release really stipped down version which is stable and only then start adding features. As a programmer, i can say that your TClock3.dll code is insanely **** overfilled with features and API which: 0) Don't have sense under Win2000. 1) Duplicate functionality is already present in Win32 API. 2) Don't make sense at all. Let me explain: try hDC=GetWindowDC(hwnd) .... finally ReleaseDC (hwnd,hDC) end; How can this code fail? If NT user32.dll is trowing exception at GetDC(), it means your process is extremely badly corrupted and you should just fail hard. If you're tough, check it for <>0 and that's it. Personally, i believe object-oriented code is harder and worser to manage when you're dealing with hooks. Wrapping everything in try..except is a bad idea (in all means), better, rewrite main things in flat non-object code, you'll gain speed and simplicity. I'll suggest you rewriting your code and splitting it into several pieces: - TClock3Test.exe: why 2,6 MB has to be loaded always? You need just hook loader and icon in system tray (or clock hooked). Split them into TClock3Loader and TClock3Settings. - TClock3.dll: well, split it at least into 2 dlls: one which gets loaded into explorer.exe only and other into all processes. Get rid of hooks if you can safely hook API. Some boasting maybe, but that's how LameSkin is used: - 30 KB for skin loader, loads bitmaps into shared memory(only startup process); - 60 KB for shell hooking (30% of its code is actually for taskbar skinning); - 32 KB for process hooking (15% of its code is actually for window skinning); - 52 KB skin metrics/drawing API for every process; - 24 KB for 32-bit icons (consider this as an equivalent for font smoothing) for every process; So, it is 32+52+24=108KB and PB compiler sucks. Usually with loaded skin memory usage increase is under 2MB. You can do the same! If you don't want WB skins, use Windows XP msstyles format (it is FAR better than WB ones in terms of simplicity and standartization, and i believe it can't be restricted to Windows XP) or extracted bitmaps with ini file like i do. You can read a bit of LameSkin skin format if you like: http://tihiy.ahanix.org/lame/ Note it does not contain advanced taskbar skinning features

And now proper Zune theme: ZuneXP.zip Took me about 2 mins to port it. It'll be & improved in next RP. Also, this skin shows easy but cool trick you can use: figure where it takes start button. When you figure this out, you know how to create lightweight skins with sub-styles.

bump! Please find 5 minutes to test it. So far it is confirmed to work on Radeon 9xxx series, Intel 915/945GM.