Plex Reloaded for 4074

[nighthawk]

Tired of Slate or Jade? That grey taskbar and sidebar starting to bore you? No problemo.

Plex Reloaded

Visual Style & Patch for Microsoft Windows Code-Name Longhorn Build 4074

This document was written by Nighthawk and was last modified on Sunday, July 25, 2004.

This visual style & patch was created by Nighthawk.

Are you a fan of Longhorn before the “Slate” visual style was introduced, when everything was nice and blue? Well, now you can give Longhorn 4074 a blast from the past! I have made a close recreation of Plex for this build. It’s not exact due to the way things are coded, but its close enough.

Included in the downloadable package are:

• Longhorn/Plex M3 “Swish” Wallpaper

• Visual Style

• Imageres.dll (Used for the sidebar & new taskbar)

Download: Plex Reloaded 1.0

Plex Reloaded thread

Installation

Installing the Wallpaper & Visual Style are fairly easy..

1. Download the package at the top of this page and extract it to any location of your choice.

2. Navigate your way to the folder you extracted the files to.

3. Copy the “Plex Reloaded” folder to %SYSTEMROOT%\Resources\Themes

4. Copy the Wallpaper (BlissM3.JPG) to %SYSTEMROOT%\Web\Wallpaper

If you want to also skin the new taskbar and sidebar, you will need to do the following:

1. Browse to %SYSTEMROOT%\i386

2. Delete or Rename “imageres.dll”

3. Browse to %SYSTEMROOT%\System32

4. Rename “imageres.dll” to “imageres-slate.dll”

5. Extract the “imageres.dll” file from the downloadable package and place it in %SYSTEMROOT%\System32

6. Open Task Manager (Start, Run, Taskmgr.exe). End all Explorer.exe processes.

7. In task manager, go to File, New Task. Type Explorer.exe in and press OK.

Your new style taskbar & sidebar should now match the theme.

NOTE: If you want to switch to Jade or Slate down the road, you will need to rename the Plex Reloaded imageres.dll to imageres-plex.dll and rename imageres-slate.dll back to imageres.dll, and then restart explorer.

Screenshot:

Hope you enjoy it.

Keep an eye on the thread on Next L3vel, as I may post updates in that thread.

[XL-DJK]

How can I access the WIM file on the Setup CD of Longhorn? and what files make up the visual effects?

[likuidkewl]

How can I access the WIM file on the Setup CD of Longhorn? and what files make up the visual effects?

As of right now there is no tool to get at the .WIM files, this should be out around the same time as the SMS support, because right now you can make WIM files with SMS 2003 SP1, but you cannot edit already created WIM's

HTH