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Post by meow on Jun 19, 2020 10:24:19 GMT -8
You can get centered title text in windows 7.
1. Get a windows 8 cd.
2. Boot into it.
3. Delete the windows 7 resources folder.
4. Extract the windows 8 one into windows 7.
5. Reboot into windows 7.
6. Done.
Aero does NOT work so don’t ask how to enable aero.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 19, 2020 11:32:51 GMT -8
You may want to back up the Resources directory, then, because if you do it this way, you end up overwriting Windows 7's Aero visual style with Windows 8's, which isn't compatible with 7 (this also goes for Vista's and 7's - they couldn't be used interchangeably either). Which also explains why DWM pretty much breaks.
You may be better off by:
1) Downloading a third-party visual style from somewhere (deviantArt, for example) that has these changes incorporated into it, or
2) Getting Windows Style Builder and manually modifying Aero.msstyles to have the titlebar text centered, or if you don't want to spend money,
3) Getting Resource Hacker (or something similar) and modifying the visual style in that way.
This way, all that's needed is to patch the theme engine's files (i.e. through means of a UXTheme Patcher, like Universal Theme Patcher) to get third-party visual styles to work, without breaking DWM.
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Post by meow on Jun 19, 2020 12:15:13 GMT -8
You may want to back up the Resources directory, then, because if you do it this way, you end up overwriting Windows 7's Aero visual style with Windows 8's, which isn't compatible with 7 (this also goes for Vista's and 7's - they couldn't be used interchangeably either). Which also explains why DWM pretty much breaks. You may be better off by: 1) Downloading a third-party visual style from somewhere (deviantArt, for example) that has these changes incorporated into it, or 2) Getting Windows Style Builder and manually modifying Aero.msstyles to have the titlebar text centered, or if you don't want to spend money, 3) Getting Resource Hacker (or something similar) and modifying the visual style in that way. This way, all that's needed is to patch the theme engine's files (i.e. through means of a UXTheme Patcher, like Universal Theme Patcher) to get third-party visual styles to work, without breaking DWM. I don’t really care about aero, but these are good options if you do still want aero. What would be better is if someone would modify 8’s theme to work on 7, or porting 8’s DWM to 7 to have a working theme. Without DWM, it looks like Windows 8 7850. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 20, 2020 0:38:19 GMT -8
I don’t really care about aero, but these are good options if you do still want aero. What would be better is if someone would modify 8’s theme to work on 7, or porting 8’s DWM to 7 to have a working theme. Without DWM, it looks like Windows 8 7850. There's plenty of Windows 8(-inspired) visual styles for Windows 7 already. Probably also some modifications of Windows 7's default style with minor modifications (like a centered caption). Simply 'porting' DWM from one version of Windows [back] to another is practically undoable, as you'd either need the source code (it's closed source - so that's not happening), or replace so many system components you're better off installing the older / newer version of Windows. |
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