32bit Windows 2000 Sytem Tray Icons

[jezza333]

I dunno if many of you have discovered it already or found something better, but...

When i installed win2k a while back, i saw the icons in 16 colours in the system tray. I have just recently found a small freeware app that will change the colour depth in the tray to 32bit, for 16 colours.

It requires the .NET framework 2, and may need to be applied a number of times as windows file protection replaces the modified file.

It will detect your explorer.exe version and download/apply the appropriate patch. Works like a dream.

Cannot find the original site, so here is the copy i have had for a while

Win2000TrayPatch_1.0.zip

Oh yeah, icons that came with 2000 for the system tray will only be in 16 colours, as this is the way they have been made. I have customized mine, and it looks ok.

[Dels]

yeah this is some i search, but is this true 32bit? gee i don't need that high color res for my icon (even my desktop icon only 24bit color!), so 256color - 24bit maybe better (cause some old vga card didnt compatible with 32bit), so if someone found the 256color - 24 bit tool (24bit will be my choice ) can you share?

[jezza333]

I heard that the system tray only has 16 colours - not 256. I haven't heard of any tool that will only do 24bit, only one that will do 256, and this one is 32bit.

You could apply the patch to see if it works, because if it doesn't, the program has a restore funtion to return colours to normal.

I think it looks like 32bit to me

[Dels]

ok thanks for the file

anyway who made this?

[jezza333]

Can't remember where i got it, i'll do a search...

Edit: I found it

http://www.r1ch.net/stuff/win2000traypatch/

Edited March 19, 2006 by jezza333