How do I change the left webview pane and normal / special group backg

[JenniferArden]

Hi all,

Can anyone please tell me how to change the left webview pane in XP as well as how to change the Normal / Special Group backgrounds? In left webview I would like to replace the gradient color (blue) with an image and I also want to change the text color to white. I know it must be done in shellstyle.dll but I do not know how. I have already tried editing the shellstyle.dll file but there is no image file for the left webview pane, it only goes to 112, in other shellstyle.dll files from other VS's I see there is an extra number added eg 113 and that always contains the image for the left webview pane. In Normal / Special Group background I would like to remove the white rectangular blocks in the left pane? (under "Network Taks" and "Related Taks") Please see included picture.

Thank you for reading,

Jennifer

Edited January 25, 2009 by JenniferArden

[Mordac85]

Never done this, but I believe you can set those in a Theme. It may be a somewhat advanced topic since it isn't readily obvious but any good docs on creating XP themes should give you the details.

[JenniferArden]

Hi Mordac85

Thank you for your reply, believe me i have searched everywhere for help on this topic but I can't find anything. I know it is possible because visual style creators do this lots of times and I have seen it in visual styles. I think everyone is just into Vista now as the XP Visual Styles forum is dead. Vishal Gupta from askvg.com suggested I use style builder, just received an email from him this morning, although I prefer to know myself what setting does what. I hope Stylebuilder can save visual styles in msstyles format.

Jennifer