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Hello guys. I've been researching for a while on the wide internet. What I've not found is this: - How do I remove the properties display on the bottom of every Windows Explorer window. - Is there any better way than resource hacking to get rid of the command band/command bar on top of the Windows Explorer window? (i.e. I want the XP style Explorer back... it's much more useful and much less bloated) Greetings 3-R4Z0R

Hello guys! I've been working really hard the last two days with my newest idea: Making Windows XP draw windows in 3D. After my research until now it seems fully possible to draw the windows in 3D, because somewhere those Windows are rendered to memory and not directly to the screen. More Info After I found this link I knew exactly where to start searching. And boy, he was right with PrintWindow() and the underlying functions. At the moment I'm researching the _GetDCEx() function, since it's there I get the Device context from which _NtGdiBitBlt() copies window content to the Device Context supplied in PrintWindow(). After getting down to the point that I know where the windows are rendered to (right now I'm researching about a window structure found by siwu), I'm going to read up about kernel-mode programming. This is needed, since the windows aren't rendered to user-space and hence aren't accessible with normal programs. It has to be a kernel-driver that stops windows from drawing windows on screen with the normal routines (still having to research about that) and by itself drawing the windows through DirectX on the screen. If there are any people here interested in joining me in my quest I would be really happy. I'm going to need somebody able of helping me with reverse-engineering all the needed functions and structures from win32k.sys (and more to come) and especially someone used to programming C++ for the kernel-mode drivers. Personally I'm not good enough at programming C++ for this task. Greetings 3-R4Z0R

One question: Dead? Think it's like that, because I haven't heard anything here since a week. Once a week I think someone should be able to get online and support his project a little bit. GreetZZ 3-R4Z0R

Back2Topic: When is XPGE going public? How's doing with the private beta? GreetZZ 3-R4Z0R

Got shocked too... Phew, 1st April. I hadn't got it if there wasn't a post that said it was April 1st. Anyway, good luck with your project And how's doing with progress? GreetZZ 3-R4Z0R

Any news? Sorry for being inpatient GreetZZ 3-R4Z0R

By now it looks gorgeous! My favourite Games are working as well Can't wait for the public beta. How long will aegis torture me ? GreetZZ 3-R4Z0R

I see, there's something going on here. But when will the first release be (next month, next year, etc.) ? I don't want you to feel stressed, I just wondered... In the screenshots, there's a startmenue, I thought, there will be no startmenue. Will it be removed? GreetZZ 3-R4Z0R

http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/ GreetZZ 3-R4Z0R

How is the progress on the project? (Please give a little summary of main features, if you've got the time) GreetZZ 3-R4Z0R Edit: Isn't it going to work on x86 processors, but only x64?

So then will the first release be soon? And: Are there any VB6 runtimes in the release? I'll need them for a gaming shell. (GameOS Shell, originally made for 9x, but will work on XP too.) GreetZZ 3-R4Z0R

Non Cleartype. Personally I hate cleartype except for the really small (<8) fonts and really big (24+) in textdocuments. GreetZZ 3-R4Z0R

What NTLDR are you using Aegis? Maybe I'll replace my standard XP version... GreetZZ 3-R4Z0R Edit: Are the VB6 runtimes in there? I'm going to need them...

@Aegis: With the start program it would be an easy one to make a little start-manager to edit all those games some may have. With 5 menu options: add, remove, edit, run and exit. Estimated size: 100kb - 500kb. Maybe even adding a little icon manager in there too which stores the icons for games in an ini file. Use NTLDR from W2k3, it's a bit faster in managing the memory. It would improve a few fps (up to 5fps, not more). @gdogg: MS-DOS = Command.com XPGE = XP w/cmd.exe as shell. GreetZZ 3-R4Z0R

@Aegis Maybe I would be able to program a little proggy for the game-management, like progman.exe. Doing some few subfolders and placing shortcuts in there. *.bat would be enough for these shortcuts. Just specify the location of some exe, add some parameters (i.e. for cs: hl.exe -game cstrike -console) and klick on OK. Then let the program generate a batch file of some KBs and add it to the main folder of the program. From there you may move it to other folders (i.e. fps, rpg, half-life, gta, etc.). Would suffice, so even a newbie would be able to use this program. Then: Integrate VM-Ware player so you may boot a normal XP for surfing the i-net and other things like this. Just put a standard VM-Ware machine (VMX-Builder) somewhere and write in readme where to put the virtual hd file. GreetZZ 3-R4Z0R