Guest nellie2 Posted October 20, 2003 Report Share Posted October 20, 2003 You must be able to.......... anyone got any recomendations?? I've done the blue and I've done the silver.... don't really fancy the green. Any ideas?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doug Posted October 20, 2003 Report Share Posted October 20, 2003 What's wrong with :Gang greenrevolting redbillious blueyuck yellowputrid purplelithsome lillac'orrible orangecringing crimson? :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted October 20, 2003 Report Share Posted October 20, 2003 You must be able to.......... anyone got any recomendations?? I've done the blue and I've done the silver.... don't really fancy the green. Any ideas??I'm using silver now!I never did like it but now i do :blush:Can you skin XP? Well, yes...http://www.wincustomize.com/http://www.themexp.org/You need to download a little proggy, which i think you do have to end up paying for :( But you can skin XP.I did try Windows Blinds but hated the actual program, but the skins are nice, especially the Nvidia one.You can also change the login screen and the boot screen -_- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest nellie2 Posted October 21, 2003 Report Share Posted October 21, 2003 Thank you Powerless. I don't really want to pay for anything...I don't really want a theme as such because don't like it when your mouse pointer turns into a dinosaur or whatever.I will have a look at those tonight, but shall stick with the silver I think until I find something 'more me'!!! :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted October 21, 2003 Report Share Posted October 21, 2003 If it ain't broke why fix it. The more unnecessary rubbish you download, the more problems you risk causing. Now stop being a silly blonde Nellie, and be happy with sea sick green. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest nellie2 Posted October 21, 2003 Report Share Posted October 21, 2003 I haven't got sick green I have sparkly silver..... I just wanted something a bit more individual andsome and you will never learn anything new if you aren't prepared to experiment now will you? ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest spikeychris Posted October 21, 2003 Report Share Posted October 21, 2003 How about a bit of reverse engineering. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest nellie2 Posted October 21, 2003 Report Share Posted October 21, 2003 Oh do tell....... I'm intrigued! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest spikeychris Posted October 21, 2003 Report Share Posted October 21, 2003 Sorry Nel, I don’t use skins or screen-savers or backgrounds etc, I’m very boring that way. There is though the option of reversing the engineering that will allow you to. It will invalidate your warranties and is not supported by Mr Gates, infact he hates it. Reverse Code Engineering (RCE) is a away of changing the Way software works within the win32 environment. You can learn how the software was written and how to change it. Obviously this goes against all the M$ ethos but it’s a giggle if you get it right.Think of the MBR, you can disassemble it and re-write it to work for your needs, the Master Boot Record (MBR) is the sector at cylinder 0, head 0, sector 1 of a hard disk. An MBR is created by the FDISK program. When your machine boots and runs the POST INT 19 is used to read the boot sector, it first tries the floppy disk, why? If you haven’t got one or you boot from HDD or CD. INT is also used in Ctrl Alt Delte so POST has to run again??Boring bit: >> memory at location 0000:7C00 is all it needs. There are ways of changing (RCE) the code so that it will work the way you want ie: move this 0000:7C00 FA CLI disable int's0000:7C01 33C0 XOR AX,AX set stack seg to 00000000:7C03 8ED0 MOV SS,AX0000:7C05 BC007C MOV SP,7C00 set stack ptr to 7c000000:7C08 8BF4 MOV SI,SP SI now 7c000000:7C0A 50 PUSH AX0000:7C0B 07 POP ES ES now 0000:7c000000:7C0C 50 PUSH AX0000:7C0D 1F POP DS DS now 0000:7c000000:7C0E FB STI allow int's0000:7C0F FC CLD clear direction0000:7C10 BF0006 MOV DI,0600 DI now 06000000:7C13 B90001 MOV CX,0100 move 256 words (512 bytes)0000:7C16 F2 REPNZ move MBR from 0000:7c000000:7C17 A5 MOVSW to 0000:06000000:7C18 EA1D060000 JMP 0000:061D jmp to NEW_LOCATION Sorry for the above but this just shows how you can reverse engineer anything, skins will be the same.Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Grim Reaper Posted October 21, 2003 Report Share Posted October 21, 2003 is it just me or can anyone else see gobledegook??no offence chris, i just seem a little out of my depth! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest nellie2 Posted October 21, 2003 Report Share Posted October 21, 2003 hmmm!!! :blink: I'm actually running on the NTFS file system, so fdisk didn't go anywhere near my HDD last time I formatted. Which was just last week actually..... did you see the pics of my build?? Riveting!! :lol: I quite like the silver theme actually......... it's sort of growing on me! :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest spikeychris Posted October 21, 2003 Report Share Posted October 21, 2003 Good point but GRUB MBR is used in Windows XP Recovery Console. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest spikeychris Posted October 21, 2003 Report Share Posted October 21, 2003 Apologies for the techno drivel, Click here for a far easier and less pompous way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest nellie2 Posted October 21, 2003 Report Share Posted October 21, 2003 I have to be honest here..... all this has gone ever so slightly over my head!! B) But it is dead interesting and I have come up with some weird and wonderful sites while googling some of the things you have been going on about!!! :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest nellie2 Posted October 21, 2003 Report Share Posted October 21, 2003 Thank you for the link..... and I don't think you are pompous at all!! I asked a question, you answered it........ I just didn't understand it much that's all!! :D :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest spikeychris Posted October 21, 2003 Report Share Posted October 21, 2003 Think our intercourse has overlapped. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redhat Posted October 21, 2003 Report Share Posted October 21, 2003 Absolutely no need to pay for software, heres a lil WinXP patch that will do the trick :) http://www.lightstar1.com/install.htmFollow the instructions. themexp.org is the site I use. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest spikeychris Posted October 21, 2003 Report Share Posted October 21, 2003 Doh :rolleyes: your 08:04 PM post was not there when I posted my last. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest nellie2 Posted October 21, 2003 Report Share Posted October 21, 2003 nevermind Chris............. a good bit of verbal intercourse all the same!! :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted October 21, 2003 Report Share Posted October 21, 2003 Forgive my ignorance but what do you mean by the "skin"? If it's the colour scheme as defined by "Display Properties" and "Appearance" when you right click on the desktop and select "Properties" then I've never really noticed it until now - when you brought the subject up.Am I being very boring in saying that I use my computer for more inspiring things than concern for the colour of some minor part of the display?I most certainly wouldn't risk messing up my machine in attempting to change it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest nellie2 Posted October 21, 2003 Report Share Posted October 21, 2003 Well it is the whole appearance really -pops- It is the sort of thing I start messing with when I get bored.I'm not that bothered about messing things up because if I do then I can just reformat and start again. I keep all important stuff backed up. I think I might just keep things as they are for the time being though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redhat Posted October 21, 2003 Report Share Posted October 21, 2003 Did ya not see the link I posted above?!? that does the trick for free... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest nellie2 Posted October 21, 2003 Report Share Posted October 21, 2003 Yeah I did............... I just got a bit chicken is all!!! B) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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