May 30, 201115 yr Im trying to replace the default Start Button Orb but if I edit explorer.exe in install.wim, the orb becomes 'invisible'.How to properly replace it and explorerframe.dll?tks
May 31, 201115 yr Author yep. All u have to do is replace 6801, 6805 and 6809 bitmaps in explorer.exe
May 31, 201115 yr I think what he wants is to overwrite the files...You have to take ownership of them Edited May 31, 201115 yr by ricktendo64
May 31, 201115 yr yep. All u have to do is replace 6801, 6805 and 6809 bitmaps in explorer.exeYeah mate, that I already know, try hiding the alpha channel. BTW how are you replacing the explorer.exe? I would suggest you to use replacer to replace the system files.Edit: You can also use this tool to change your start orb. Edited May 31, 201115 yr by nice_guy75
May 31, 201115 yr this tool changes the exe.I use this tool:http://www.coderforlife.com/projects/utilities/#expstartto replace the orb and without modifying the explorer.exe
May 31, 201115 yr Author All these programs r great, but any of them properly replace a mounted wim explorer.exe?I wrote a AutoIt script to use Start Orb Changer during FirstLogonCommands but it doesnt work everytime.I have no problem replace explorer.exe, what I cant do is to make Windows accept its customized version.
May 31, 201115 yr Author I read your post, but I couldnt find a way to run it unattended with <FirstLogonCommands>Update: Its pretty simple and it works perfectly! Althought I have no idea about how to make some parts of it transparent... Edited May 31, 201115 yr by Orsi
June 1, 201115 yr I read your post, but I couldnt find a way to run it unattended with <FirstLogonCommands>Update: Its pretty simple and it works perfectly! Althought I have no idea about how to make some parts of it transparent... Its very easy to make some part transparent mate, first of all while making your orb don't save it in bmp directly, save it as png with transparency then open that png in GIMP it a free tool, now go to channels tab in the right window/pane and then just make the alpha channel invisible and save it as bmp.That is it.Note: the orb might look ugly but don't worry it would work fine.
June 1, 201115 yr Author I found another way. You can edit the image in Photoshop, create an alpha channel and save as a 32bit BMPTks guys, everything is perfect now
June 1, 201115 yr I found another way. You can edit the image in Photoshop, create an alpha channel and save as a 32bit BMPTks guys, everything is perfect now You are lucky, PS gives problem in most of the cases so only I suggested GIMP. Anyways, "All's well that ends well".
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