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Post by xpforever on Jun 6, 2024 10:14:24 GMT -8
I am using Luna10 which so far is the best I have seen that is available, but there is one problem, it has no address bar.  I followed the author's instructions and registering the ClassicExplorer.dll was the only remaining hurdle, one which I finally resolved by installing MSVCP, but it didn't fix the address bar problem. I tried another theme which doesn't have this issue but the look isn't as accurate as Luna10 so I'm hoping to just fix this theme. I can of course use the classic address bar but the problem is I like the modern one better (not everything about XP was good and not everything about later versions is bad). What's hilarious is if I enable the classic address bar in the alternative theme, I get both:  My ultimate goal is to have the shell look like this:  So where do I start? |
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Luximoz
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Luna, Royale, and Aero enjoyer
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OS: Windows 7/Windows LTSC 2019
Theme: Windows XP/Longhorn/Vista/7 (I switch whenever I feel like)
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Post by Luximoz on Jun 7, 2024 10:53:35 GMT -8
I am using Luna10 which so far is the best I have seen that is available, but there is one problem, it has no address bar. View AttachmentI followed the author's instructions and registering the ClassicExplorer.dll was the only remaining hurdle, one which I finally resolved by installing MSVCP, but it didn't fix the address bar problem. I tried another theme which doesn't have this issue but the look isn't as accurate as Luna10 so I'm hoping to just fix this theme. I can of course use the classic address bar but the problem is I like the modern one better (not everything about XP was good and not everything about later versions is bad). What's hilarious is if I enable the classic address bar in the alternative theme, I get both: View AttachmentMy ultimate goal is to have the shell look like this: View AttachmentSo where do I start? I'm pretty sure you'd need to modify the Luna10 theme, because it makes both the Windows Vista-style address bar and command bar vanish. You can hide the classic address bar by pressing alt to show the classic menu bar (where there's stuff like File, Edit, View, etc...) and then by right clicking this bar and by disabling "Classic Address Bar" from there the same way you'd do to disable Open Shell's Classic Explorer bar. |
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Post by xpforever on Jun 7, 2024 12:01:59 GMT -8
Alright, the last time I did this was in 2014, I used Windows Style Builder to modify the .msstyles file and change everything to my liking. Is this still the way to go?
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Jevil7452
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OS: Windows Vista Enterprise (6.0.6003)
Theme: Windows Aero by Microsoft Corporation
CPU: Intel Core i7-3770k
RAM: 32GB
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti
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Post by Jevil7452 on Jun 7, 2024 13:57:51 GMT -8
I personally had a bad experience with WSB. But msstyleEditor worked for me. For you it may be different, try both and see which works.
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Post by Leafing on Jun 7, 2024 14:15:00 GMT -8
remove negative contentmargins in navbarbase::rebar with msstyleeditor it's like -30 or something in new Luna10 and i think it's usually suppose to be -3 or 0
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Post by xpforever on Jun 8, 2024 11:21:04 GMT -8
Thanks for msstyleEditor, WSB is outdated and failed to open/save the 10 theme without corrupting it.
Thanks Leafing for the fix, that worked. I would not have guessed this on my own.
I have my Luna7 theme and Luna10 theme loaded side by side and I am ready to match all the preferences but holy shit is this unintuitive. If Luna10 is missing an image, I have to re-add like 20 different settings, manually set an image number (this should be automatic) but of course I can't just select the property I want but need to guess which class the property falls under first (Enum, Int, Bool etc.)
This is hugely inefficient, is there any way to automate this? There are entire sections I basically wanna match to my old theme. If I could just convert my 7 theme to 10 that would be great but I imagine not possible.
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