[Solved] Windows 98SE Display Properties Question

[Monroe]

I posted this question under the Windows 2000 thread yesterday ... I will see if I can get help here also. I installed Windows 2k Pro on a different hard drive yesterday ... I like the "Stone" look in the Windows 98SE Display Properties-Pattern selection. Windows 2k doesn't have this "Stone" look option. Where would this pattern be in the Windows folder and could it be transfered to Windows 2k? I have tried putting "stone" in Find Files and I get Carved Stone and Sandstone but not the Stone pattern. ... thanks

[Joseph_sw]

on win9x its in CONTROL.INI 's [Patterns]

[Monroe]

Thanks ... I see it in there ... will try it out later on Windows 2k, see if it works.

[dencorso]

This may be of help.

[Monroe]

Thanks dencorso ... yes, that link is really interesting, very glad you posted it. I was just asking a simple question, didn't give it much thought about how these "patterns" are actually made. Now I have a better understanding about the whole thing ... maybe will try experimenting with some new patterns. The CONTROL.INI file (thanks to Joseph_sw) has the pattern "numbers" (code) in it, so I guess that's something to start with. Learned something new again from this forum. ... thanks to all.

[Patterns]

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Bricks=187 95 174 93 186 117 234 245

Buttons=170 125 198 71 198 127 190 85

Cargo Net=120 49 19 135 225 200 140 30

Circuits=82 41 132 66 148 41 66 132

Cobblestones=40 68 146 171 214 108 56 16

Colosseum=130 1 1 1 171 85 170 85

Daisies=30 140 216 253 191 27 49 120

Dizzy=62 7 225 7 62 112 195 112

Field Effect=86 89 166 154 101 149 106 169

Key=254 2 250 138 186 162 190 128

Live Wire=239 239 14 254 254 254 224 239

Plaid=240 240 240 240 170 85 170 85

Rounder=215 147 40 215 40 147 213 215

Scales=225 42 37 146 85 152 62 247

Stone=174 77 239 255 8 77 174 77

Thatches=248 116 34 71 143 23 34 113

Tile=69 130 1 0 1 130 69 170

Triangles=135 7 6 4 0 247 231 199

Waffle's Revenge=77 154 8 85 239 154 77 154

Edited March 15, 2011 by duffy98

[Monroe]

Well, with the help of dencorso in the Windows NT4/2000/2003 section, I was able to get the Stone pattern look into Windows 2k Pro. Thanks to Joseph_sw posting about the 9x patterns being in the CONTROL.INI file where I was able to see the actual Stone pattern number code and dencorso posting the registry path where the "default" Windows 2k patterns are located ... I was able to add the Stone pattern in less than 2 minutes to Windows 2k Pro. I won't go into detail here since this is a 9x section. More information in the Windows 2000 section (link), if anyone is interested. Thanks again for the help.