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Post by s34642542 on May 8, 2018 9:06:54 GMT -8
I've looked around the site and it seems there may be ways to solve this. Someone mentioned using an AutoHotKey script, but that it doesn't work with the newer Classic Shell versions. Are there other ways to fix this? To be honest, this is the only thing stopping me from using this theme on my actual 8.1 installation (picture is from a VM). If the AHK thing can be made to work with the most up-to-date Classic Shell, could someone tell me how exactly I'd use it? Many thanks. Really appreciate that there are a lot of people out there who feel as passionately about the classic theme as I do. Attachments:
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Post by anixx on May 8, 2018 10:49:26 GMT -8
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Post by s34642542 on May 8, 2018 11:12:30 GMT -8
I followed those instructions exactly and literally nothing happened, even after restarting. It didn't turn on the classic theme or anything. |
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Post by anixx on May 8, 2018 21:16:18 GMT -8
I followed those instructions exactly and literally nothing happened, even after restarting. It didn't turn on the classic theme or anything. Are your sheduled tasks getting runned after boot? You can see in scheduler the last time the task was run. |
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Post by s34642542 on May 9, 2018 1:50:17 GMT -8
I followed those instructions exactly and literally nothing happened, even after restarting. It didn't turn on the classic theme or anything. Are your sheduled tasks getting runned after boot? You can see in scheduler the last time the task was run. It turns out they weren't. When I manually activate them from task scheduler, the theme mostly works, but the taskbar is white. Not sure how to fix this problem. If you actually install ClassicTheme.exe, then you get the option to configure the theme and this fixes the whiteness problem, but you can't do that using this method, can you? Just to clarify - I've attached images of what the tasks look like for both Classic and Classic2, for their trigger and action tabs. Could you please let me know if I've set it up correctly? I'm not really an expert on these things. EDIT: Just wanted to say that I've fixed the white taskbar issue. It turns out that in the Personalisation page, you want to put everything to the left except the intensity bar, which you want to put to the right. I have another issue though. When I boot up my VM, the theme doesn't automatically apply. If I log out then log back in, it applies. How do I make it so it applies after booting up? Attachments:
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Post by Splitwirez on May 9, 2018 5:58:00 GMT -8
Easy fix: Just download the SetWindowCompositionAttribute tool from the Aeroglass 8.1+ website (it's listed as "Command line tool to change window's composition attributes"), then run it twice, first with these commandline options: SetWindowCompositionAttribute.exe class Shell_TrayWnd accent 0 0 0 0and the second time, with these: SetWindowCompositionAttribute.exe class Shell_TrayWnd blur false |
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Post by s34642542 on May 9, 2018 6:36:02 GMT -8
Thanks, but I actually fixed that one (see the edit to my previous post).  Do you know why the theme doesn't apply when I boot up the VM, but only when I then log off and log back in? |
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Post by s34642542 on May 9, 2018 7:38:28 GMT -8
Okay, I have a new problem. I finally did this on my actual 8.1 installation (instead of in a VM), and despite doing everything the same, the 1 pixel problem is there. It also doesn't work unless I manually kill explorer.exe and restart it... Any thoughts on this?
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Post by anixx on May 9, 2018 11:35:51 GMT -8
Okay, I have a new problem. I finally did this on my actual 8.1 installation (instead of in a VM), and despite doing everything the same, the 1 pixel problem is there. It also doesn't work unless I manually kill explorer.exe and restart it... Any thoughts on this? The 1-px bug is quite an artificial problem due to a mistake in the code when Classictheme.exe is in the installed mode. If you face it, it means you did install it insteas of running via task scheduler. Uninstall it first, then follow the steps on the link. |
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Post by s34642542 on May 10, 2018 2:44:57 GMT -8
Okay, I have a new problem. I finally did this on my actual 8.1 installation (instead of in a VM), and despite doing everything the same, the 1 pixel problem is there. It also doesn't work unless I manually kill explorer.exe and restart it... Any thoughts on this? The 1-px bug is quite an artificial problem due to a mistake in the code when Classictheme.exe is in the installed mode. If you face it, it means you did install it insteas of running via task scheduler. Uninstall it first, then follow the steps on the link. It's true that I did install it, and that's when the issue came up. After removing it, it went away. I didn't know how else to actually change the style of the classic theme though. Without installing ClassicTheme.exe, I couldn't find a way to configure it, so it was stuck in this really ugly looking format until I did that. |
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Post by anixx on May 10, 2018 8:32:16 GMT -8
Just to clarify - I've attached images of what the tasks look like for both Classic and Classic2, for their trigger and action tabs. Could you please let me know if I've set it up correctly? I'm not really an expert on these things. From your screenshots I see you did everything differently from what the manual said. Where in the manual it said you should schedule the tasks to run on user's logon? The first task should be run instead of userinit process: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon] "Userinit"=schtasks.exe /run /tn "Classic" And the second task is called by the first one. Do everything exactly as the instruction said, do not invent things. |
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Post by s34642542 on May 11, 2018 8:59:24 GMT -8
For each step that said "import the following reg file", all I did was save the text in notepad as <name>.reg, then run that file. For the tasks, I went into task scheduler and created a new task. From here, I named it "Classic" for the first one and in the Actions tab, I picked "Start a program" and put in the text you specified in the post. I did the same thing for "Classic2". I'm not sure what I've done wrong, but like I said, I'm not familiar with this stuff at all. For the user logon part, I did that because I misunderstood what "The both should be set up to run only for logged in users." meant. How do you set it to run only for logged in users?
And finally, how do you access the configuration page for the classic theme if you don't actually install it? Because I can't seem to find it and it seems to be required to make the theme display like it should (i.e. like Windows 2000 style).
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Post by anixx on May 11, 2018 20:40:03 GMT -8
There is a .cpl file in the archive.
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Do you know why the theme doesn't apply when I boot up the VM, but only when I then log off and log back in?