W10 Setup MKII [WIP]

By altering a dialog from other program and replacing it with the resource for Winver from W2k, then adding in the other stuff in myself.

Basically:

Here they are.

WMP is good enough. I only use it for wma and wmv files, otherwise I use other players.

OT:

Desktop as of now:



Also sorted out Task Manager's icon. It seems taskbowfree takes the 48x48 size then downgrades it:



Now, after I fixed it:



Solved it simply by making the 16x16 size the only one.

Well, I installed Taskbowfree on Windows 8.1. It does not replace the Explorer's taskbar window, just the taskbar panel. So, the tray and start menu are unaffected.

The QuickLaunch of Taskbowfree for unknown reason has dark background and the shortcuts work wrong way (starts cmd.exe in wrong encoding!) so I disabled it, the normal quicklaunch of Windows is OK.

The active window button is underlined Win10-style (is there a way to disable it? your screenshot does not have it) There is no space between buttons (is there a way to add?). Buttons are highlited on hover (is there a way to disable it?) Overall, if it works the same way under Win10, it is a good alternative.


Do you know how to remove the black line under the active task?

UPDATE. Windows 7 compatibility mode fixes this.

UPDATE2. Even Win7RTMVersionLie compat fix is enough.

Well, the support seems active, they fixed the issue with Win8.1 detection since my last post
The test build is here: www.taskbow.com/taskbowfree.1.1.7.3.zip

Figured out a great workaround for Reactos's dodgy system tray:



Someone on another forum gave me the idea to try out a dock, and normally I wouldn't even consider using one because frankly I think they are ugly, but I did some research and found out Winstep Nexus has it's own systray. 

A little tweaking later, and it looks pretty good. More importantly, it functions great as a second systray area. Just load up Nexus first, then whatever program you want to display in the tray area, then load up the Reactos taskbar (otherwise any new programs that you launch after won't show up in Nexus because it hooks to the default W10 systray and now the ROS tray is loaded in it's place).  If you want to add more programs, kill the ROS taskbar, launch programs, then re-load ROS.

I have it hidden off to the right, where it disappears until I point the mouse in that general vicinity of my desktop.

Excuse me? I've never criticized you for using Spitfire_x86's W7 SiB skin. It's a good skin, but it's not for me. ROS taskbar suits my tastes because it's closer to the 9x taskbar, warts and all.

> using this ugly sidebar aint in my book.
Ok? You use Startisback, this would be of no need to you. I don't like the dock either, but it works, so in this case, functionality>looks.

Hey, can you link me to the Windows NT welcome program? I'd appreciate if you could do that for me! :>

how did you get that winver? explain step by step. (to prove without raging, on vista with RH, i tried modifing build number to 2195 or some number, but it always shows 6001 other than the number i input, also i can't show the "Physical memory available to Windows: X KB" [as x means the amount of P.M.] thingy. also windows 2000 SP maxes out at sp4, not sp5. also it should be Build 2195:, not build 2195; [since a semicolon is a typo, not a correct symbol. so it should be :] ).