After searching 50 pages from the previous thread, i found this: "Okay, these are the changes you need to make, remembering to back up first, and that I'm not responsible if stuff breaks: For 256-colour tray icons, change the following in explorer.exe (version 5.0.3900.6920, file size 242,448 bytes, located in main Windows directory): at x618E, change 01 to 11 at x12235, change 01 to 11 at x12246, change 01 to 11 To disable WFP, change the following in sfc.dll (version 5.0.2195.6921, file size 94,456 bytes, located in system32 subdirectory to Windows directory): at x6276, change 8B C6 to 90 90 All of these have changed since their respective previous versions, so please make sure that you have the right vesions and the like if you do try them." Thanks again to the original author of this.