Super Windows XP SP1 CD

[LoboVerde]

1. How can I put some themes onto the cd and have windows boot up with what ever one of those themes I choose?

2. And how can this be down with icons, shell32.dll, during the install.

Gracias!

[Aaron]

Using something similar to what's shown on the UXTheme page, you can use those commands to copy your visual style theme files into C:\Windows\Resources\Themes\ (you will need to use MD first to make a directory for the custom theme name). Same goes for shell32.dll and msgina.dll and any other types.

You can set the default theme from:

[shell]

CustomDefaultThemeFile = "%WinDir%\Resources\Themes\MyTheme.theme"

But I haven't tested to see if it works with msstyles files.

[LoboVerde]

I'm sorry AaronXP what is MD?

[Aaron]

MD is a DOS command, short for Make Directory.

MD MyThemes will create a directory called MyThemes

[tapnet]

So would that be

ECHO.

ECHO Creating folders

ECHO Please wait...

MD MyIcons

ECHO.

Would that make a folder in C:/ so C:/MyIcons

If I wanted it in my WINDOWS how would I do that?

[Aaron]

Use a full path:

MD C:\MyIcons

If you wanted files to be copied over to the WINDOWS directory, put the files in $OEM$\$$\

$$ = WINDOWS

$$\System32\ = WINDOWS\System32\

and so on.