i think many people have done this before but how about starting sharing it?

this is what i have done with my old win2k pc (give it some xp classic feel)

and

NOTE :

- hacked the toolbar and change the animated globe to xp logo, but found some problem with big icon and the search,back,forward button

- hacked the start button flag into xp flag

- hacked desktop icon via shell32.dll (completed)

- hacked monitor item in system properties

- more...

PS : sorry for dither, its jpg, icons in desktop showed in 16bit color

if anyone want this too, i can share it after i finish retouching the missed part

RELEASED :

i think i will share it to everybody here :

for the present my pack consist of :

- shell32.dll (xp icon),

- ntoskrnl.exe (xp like boot logo),

- msgina.dll (new logo for login box, xp like),

- sysdm.cpl (monitor image in system properties)

- explorer.exe (taskbar menu and some string in windows explorer)

- browseui.dll (xp toolbar icon, missing some and dither in big icon)

- display.cpl (monitor for wallpaper, screensaver, setting dialog)

i have repack (but i lost the installer version) of my w2k gui hack, this is very experimental so don't expect to much for this release, hope you have interest on it and fix it

http://rapidshare.de/files/18715215/Pack.7z.html

packed with 7zip hope you know how to extract it

known bug :

- explorer taskbar lock feature doesn't function(explorer.exe)

- sometime you can't right click on taskbar(explorer.exe)

- missing back,forward,search and etc icon in explorer/ie toolbar (browseui.dll) i think it placed somewhere else

- the big icon toolbar are dithered with pink line (browseui.dll)

- bootlogo seem doesn't right to display, need to resave and recompress to rle (ntoskrnl.exe)

- monitor in display properties seem wrong (desk.cpl)

- missing msgina.dll file , but i have included the new ntlogo

- other...

PS :

- have add a new nt logo and bootlogo

- test it with vmware or virtual pc before test to your main installation

THIS IS VERY EXPERIMENTAL I DON'T GUARANTED YOUR SYSTEM CRASH OR WRECK YOUR PC

AND THIS PACK STILL IN DEVELOPMENT BY ME AND DIRTWARRIOR, IF YOU CAN MAKE THIS PACK BETTER CONTACT ME

Edited April 25, 200620 yr by Dels

take a look at http://wint.virtualplastic.net and http://virtualplastic.net

Edited March 16, 200620 yr by demlak

yeah i got the reference of list file that can be hacked from that 2 sites

Edited March 16, 200620 yr by Dels

now progress :

- toolbar icon fixed (the big ones) and now recheck

- flag background change from black to white and animated (from winxp)

- trying to fix the dithering start menu logo

- new boot logo (ntoskrnl.exe) that looks liked winxp boot logo

- hacked sysdm.cpl and desk.cpl completed now want to hack other .cpl files

- taskbar menu got "lock taskbar" menu (but i dunno how to implement it as it doesnt require on win2k)

- try to change the text on start menu into Windows 2000 Revolution

- new windows logo on login and shutdown dialog

- trying to implement LameSkin, a feature from win98rev

- trying to repacking up

*screenshot added later

You could, i suppose, take a leaf from vista:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\DriveIcons]

; Download drive
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\DriveIcons\E]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\DriveIcons\E\DefaultIcon]
@="%Systemroot%\\system32\\shell32.dll,106"

; Windows drive (idea nicked from vista)
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\DriveIcons\H]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\DriveIcons\H\DefaultIcon]
@="%Systemroot%\\system32\\shell32.dll,39"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\DriveIcons\R]

; Ram drive
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\DriveIcons\R\DefaultIcon]
@="%Systemroot%\\system32\\shell32.dll,12"

gee i really need the forcing command for overwriting files that still on use

copy /f?

del /f then copy?

edit : check the 1st post

Edited April 25, 200620 yr by Dels

Hey thanks I will look into it.