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

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

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

This may be of help.

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, 201115 yr by duffy98

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.