[Tutorial] Customize your Shell Style – Changing colors of Toolbar and

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[Tutorial] Customize your Shell Style – Changing colors of Toolbar and Detail Pane

In Windows Vista, Microsoft has introduced new Explorer UI includes Navigation Pane, Forward & Backward buttons, Toolbars, Address bar, Search box, Detail pane etc…

Here is simple and straight guide to customize shell style…that helps to change colors of Toolbar and Detail pane.

Requires:

Resource Editor: Resource Hacker

Text Editor: my favorite Notepad

How to:

Extract a text file from shellstyle.dll, open the file in ResHacker

Changing Toolbar color

Open the text file (1.txt) in Notepad and search for string

Gradient(argb(255,4,80,130),argb(255,17,101,132),argb(255,29,121,134),3)

Actual color code for Toolbar - its gradient color, combination of three colors.

Search occurrence will be two times…

Explanation

argb(X,R,G,B )

Where X ->Transparency, R -> Red, G -> Green, B -> Blue

background="Gradient(argb(255,R1,G1,B1),argb(255,R2,G2,B2),argb(255,R3,G3,B3),3)"

Replace the code with desired one. I have replaced with this.

Gradient(argb(255,15,55,107),argb(255,50,110,210),argb(255,15,55,107),3)

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Guess this what i've been looking for, no heavy memory usage.