oldnewwindows7
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Post by oldnewwindows7 on Jul 25, 2022 13:14:16 GMT -8
Hello dear Windows Modders,
I'm sure you aren't confused by the title of this thread, and I hope there's someone that'll be able to help me.
I want to fully restore Windows 7's Personalization Page in Control Panel on Windows 10, and with fully,
I mean Windows NOT REDIRECTING links like Color or Desktop Background to the settings, and instead to another Control Panel page, like it was on Windows 7.
I'm pretty sure that it's possible and just requires a lot of registry modding, I've seen many people who successfully restored it in their Windows 7 themes for Windows 10,
but the thing that bothers me about their ways, is that they removed the whole settings app! And my question here is, is it possible, to restore it, without deleting the whole settings app?
Thanks.
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Jevil7452
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Post by Jevil7452 on Jul 25, 2022 13:50:05 GMT -8
Hello dear Windows Modders, I'm sure you aren't confused by the title of this thread, and I hope there's someone that'll be able to help me. I want to fully restore Windows 7's Personalization Page in Control Panel on Windows 10, and with fully, I mean Windows NOT REDIRECTING links like Color or Desktop Background to the settings, and instead to another Control Panel page, like it was on Windows 7. I'm pretty sure that it's possible and just requires a lot of registry modding, I've seen many people who successfully restored it in their Windows 7 themes for Windows 10, but the thing that bothers me about their ways, is that they removed the whole settings app! And my question here is, is it possible, to restore it, without deleting the whole settings app? Thanks. It is possible, and actually quite easy. Open the themecpl.dll file (located in C:\Windows\system32) or themecpl.dll.mun (located in C:\Windows\SystemResources) in Resource Hacker, then do the following (copy-pasted from here) Find this line: <NavigateButton id="atom(DesktopBackgroundNavigateButton)" layoutpos="top" layout="verticalflowlayout(0,2)" sheet="PersonalizationHubStyle" class="ThemeElementGroup" active="keyboard" shellexecute="ms-settings:personalization-background" accname="Desktop Background"> Replace shellexecute="ms-settings:personalization-background" with navigationtargetrelative="pageWallpaper" Find this line: <NavigateButton layoutpos="top" layout="verticalflowlayout(0,2)" sheet="PersonalizationHubStyle" class="ThemeElementGroup" active="keyboard" shellexecute="ms-settings:personalization-colors" accname="Color"> Replace shellexecute="ms-settings:personalization-colors" with navigationtargetrelative="pageColorization" |
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oldnewwindows7
New Member
I'm bored.
Posts: 8
OS: Windows 10 LTSB 2015
Theme: Default
CPU: i5 8265u
RAM: Corsair 2x8GB SODIMM DDR4
GPU: Intel UHD Graphics 620 + NVidia GeForce MX130 2GB (Optimus)
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Post by oldnewwindows7 on Jul 26, 2022 1:53:40 GMT -8
What about the Right Click Menu's? They also redirect to the settings and I really have no idea how to change it.
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Post by OrthodoxWin32 on Jul 26, 2022 2:15:52 GMT -8
What about the Right Click Menu's? They also redirect to the settings and I really have no idea how to change it. You mean the desktop context menu ? |
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Post by TechSalt on Jul 26, 2022 2:22:34 GMT -8
What about the Right Click Menu's? They also redirect to the settings and I really have no idea how to change it. You can change the command for that in the registry somewhere in HKCR/DesktopBackground/Shell |
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oldnewwindows7
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I'm bored.
Posts: 8
OS: Windows 10 LTSB 2015
Theme: Default
CPU: i5 8265u
RAM: Corsair 2x8GB SODIMM DDR4
GPU: Intel UHD Graphics 620 + NVidia GeForce MX130 2GB (Optimus)
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Post by oldnewwindows7 on Jul 26, 2022 6:03:25 GMT -8
So, I did everything that you told me to do, I used ExecTI to open and modify themecpl.dll in Resource Hacker, but after copying it back to System32 it gives me an error saying "The page failed to load" (I'm on 1709 by the way). Also thank you Gumball for the context menu.
Edit: I managed to fix it by copying it over from some random Windows10to7 ISO.
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oldnewwindows7
New Member
I'm bored.
Posts: 8
OS: Windows 10 LTSB 2015
Theme: Default
CPU: i5 8265u
RAM: Corsair 2x8GB SODIMM DDR4
GPU: Intel UHD Graphics 620 + NVidia GeForce MX130 2GB (Optimus)
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Post by oldnewwindows7 on Jul 26, 2022 10:29:27 GMT -8
Do you guys think it'd be possible to restore that toolbar on the bottom of Control Panel Personalization on the RTM (10240) (the one with Desktop Background, Color, Sounds and Screen Saver)?
(It was removed after build 10061 and returned after 1607)
Edit: I managed to get everything back using Windows 10 10051's themecpl.dll
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