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the shutdown event tracker is enabled by default in server 2003 it hardly constitutes as an easter egg, its just so that windows knows why you shut it down

for reference, the original source is here: http://anti-tgtsoft.com/repository/uxtheme/

because then all the shell calls would be run through media center

or you could just add a startup entry for ehshell.exe it would be a lot simpler, but less efficient

logon, yes '03 uses the classic logon screen and xp uses the new logonui screen boot, yes the progress bar is a shade of grey instead of blue / green the main branding bmp is also predictably different desktop, kinda by default '03 doesn't use themes so you're in classic mode the start menu default places and pinned items are also different my computer doesn't show my documents or common tasks and the details view is the global default overall, yes there are quite a few changes hardware acceleration is disabled drive mounting is disabled ieharden and shutdown event tracker are both enabled need any specifics ? just ask

you can take out the guess work of whether its all users or local user by viewing its location via folder properties.

all that you really need in an xp icon is 32bit versions of the 16x16, 24x24, 32x32 and 48x48 if you're using large icons mode the only time you need to go into lower bit versions are when your graphics card cannot support them.

this could also be a backlight issue, if the image is still shown but extremely faintly. what angle are you using the screen at ?

i've been trying to do this for some time (glad i'm not the only one to be honest) setting a mixed case value in winnt.sif [unattended] TargetPath= always produces a version in capitals

seems obvious, but have you set audio acceleration to full ? its default value can sometimes create symptoms like the ones you describe.

or you could convert it to an inf file and integrate it into nlite.inf

i doubt its real, its more than likely a big collection of hotfixes like all the supposed XP SP3 betas that are floating around

could you upload your last session ini file so we can see which changes you have made ?

media fire used to be one of the best, unlimited file size, no wait times, minimal adverts, excellent reliability but they seem to be getting worse with every upgrade now your limit is 100MB, popups and banner ads and its rarely ever online

this is more down to searching better, use quotes and other operators

did you replace the right images ? theres progress bars for 3 variants: pro, home and other and overlay images, there are even more the way i make sure i get them all is to replace every image of the same size with my modified version

yes, but it involves changing the ID so it thinks its XP which can get pretty messy i havn't found a simple way of getting the logonui method but i am looking

if you have a single core processor then you edit ntoskrnl.exe, if you have a multiple core processor then you edit ntkrnlpa.exe the logon screen is disabled by default so editing logonui won't actually do a lot to change the header flag you must edit msgina.dll. the smaller of the two images is seen in the majority of places (boot, about windows) and the larger of the images is found when you are entering logon details.

shouldn't you add a source to this ? it's hardly your discovery

i've been going through a lot of things in windows recently and seeing what i can do to update them and what not. however this has still eluded me. what i'm looking for is the hex locations in shell32.dll (i'm pretty sure that they are in there because thats where the dialog is stored) for the colours on the pie charts showing drive space. i have included an original screenshot and could upload a concept if you're interested: i have already determined the decimal and hex strings for the new and existing colours: Original: Free-Top: 255 000 255 | FF 00 FF Free-Low: 128 000 128 | 80 00 80 Used-Top: 000 000 255 | 00 00 FF Used-Low: 000 000 128 | 00 00 80 Modified: Free-Top: 027 169 027 | 1B A9 1B Free-Low: 001 087 001 | 01 57 01 Used-Top: 015 099 255 | 0F 63 FF Used-Low: 001 049 140 | 01 31 8C all i need to do is find their location from the many instances of them. happy hunting

it should tell you the date and time in 'about windows' (winver.exe)

1. i was sure it was in there so i had a check in nlite and cannot find it.. strange 2. windows should choose the best match during setup. if two drivers are very similar then it could cause problems 3. run regmon while making the change, jump to the reg key, export it and convert it to an inf and then manually add it to nlites inf

for windows xp, look in shell32.dll for server 2003, look in msgina.dll

ok, you said that the files were already on the CD... just weren't copied so put in your supposedly 'xp ultimate' cd browse to i386, copy these files to your root C:\: OSK.EX_ MSSWCH.DL_ MAGNIFY.EX_ and MAG_HOOK.DL_ then run these 4 commands in cmd: expand C:\MSSWCH.DL_ %windir%\System32\msswch.dll expand C:\OSK.EX_ %windir%\System32\osk.exe expand C:\MAGNIFY.EX_ %windir%\System32\magnify.exe expand C:\MAG_HOOK.DL_ %windir%\System32\mag_hook.dll aw, now i'm worried about posting a useful reply

actually the radeon 9200 will not get aero, it is missing pixel shader 2.0, i had a 9250 which didn't get aero. the lowest radeon card that will support aero is the 9550.