TUTORIAL: List of Files to be hacked using Resource Hacker!

[Vishal Gupta]

!!! WARNING !!!

Playing with system files using resource hacker can be Dangerous for your system and it can make your system not working.

So use it at your own risk!

Guys!

In this tutorial I'll try to list the files, which can be edited using Resource Hacker to change the look-n-feel of Windows!

Following r some screenshots of System Properties window, Processing Dialog box and Shutdown dialog box of my system:

System Properties window


Processing Dialog Box


Shutdown Dialog Box



Continue Here...

[~Phenom~]

Its fantastic man.
The Phenom is loving it , will try it for sure.

[//siddhartha//]

That's Ok but how do you change bootscreens when you hack using RegHack?? And also give details on changing other properties..

[Vishal Gupta]

To change the XP boot screen using Resource Hacker u hv to edit "%windir%\System32\NToskrnl.exe" file in Resource Hacker.

Its a tricky one coz u hv to change some images in the Bitmap folder but images will be just black and u hv to edit them in Photoshop with a special pallet installed.

The complete tutorial is given here

PS: The easiest method to change Boot screen is Tuneup Utilities 2006.

[QwertyManiac]

Thats ultimatum editing vishal ! One doubt - how do u change the orientation of the progress bar ? any easy 3rd party s/w other than ResHack to do that ?

[theraven]

u can change progress bars using windows blinds !

[Vishal Gupta]

I used only Resource Hacker for all this editing!

To change the orientation of Progress bar:

Open "Shell32.dll" in Resource Hacker and nevigate to:

Dialog -> 1020 -> 1033

and here u can change the height, width or nething of the progress bar

I'm attaching the screenshot too:

[kato]

Dude i really liked the way wat u did with the progress bar. Please can u show how to change the look of start button

[dIgItaL_BrAt]

Brilliant post man!
i've already spent 2 hours customizing my system thanx to this.

[vijay_7287]

extra ordinary stuff dude

thx dude !!!!

[Vishal Gupta]

Originally Posted by kato

Dude i really liked the way wat u did with the progress bar. Please can u show how to change the look of start button

If u r asking about changing the Start button text, then

Just open "%windir%\Explorer.exe" in Resource Hacker.

And nevigate to:

String Table -> 37 -> 1033 (For Windows XP Theme)
String Table -> 38 -> 1033 (For Windows Classic Theme)

And change the text, saying "start" to nething u want (U can type the word containing more than 5 characters also )

PS: In 37 -> 1033, the text will be like:
578, "start" (In first line)

And in 38 -> 1033, the text will be like:
595, "Start" (In third line)

[alib_i]

one more question ..

how did you change the position of buttons in shutdown dialogue box?
and where is the 'cancel' button in it .. how did you remove/hide it ?

okk.. that's two questions

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alibi

[Vishal Gupta]

To change the look of Shutdown dialog box, open "%windir%\System32\MSgina.dll" in Resource Hacker and nevigate to:

Dialog -> 20100 -> 1033

Here u can change the position, text, size of the buttons and to remove the cancel button simply select the button and press delete

Here are the contents of Dialog -> 20100 -> 1033 in my "msgina.dll" file:

20100 DIALOGEX 0, 0, 208, 122
STYLE DS_SYSMODAL | DS_SETFOREGROUND | WS_POPUP | WS_BORDER
CAPTION ""
LANGUAGE LANG_ENGLISH, SUBLANG_ENGLISH_US
FONT 8, "MS Shell Dlg"
{
   CONTROL "hv 2 go", 20104, BUTTON, BS_OWNERDRAW | BS_NOTIFY | WS_CHILD | WS_VISIBLE | WS_TABSTOP, 36, 85, 22, 20 
   CONTROL "c u later", 20103, BUTTON, BS_OWNERDRAW | BS_NOTIFY | WS_CHILD | WS_VISIBLE | WS_TABSTOP, 93, 85, 22, 20 
   CONTROL "just coming", 20105, BUTTON, BS_OWNERDRAW | BS_NOTIFY | WS_CHILD | WS_VISIBLE | WS_TABSTOP, 150, 85, 22, 20 
   CONTROL "go 2 bed", 20106, BUTTON, BS_PUSHBUTTON | BS_NOTIFY | WS_CHILD | WS_VISIBLE, 30093, 30049, 22, 20 
   CONTROL "", 20108, STATIC, SS_OWNERDRAW | WS_CHILD | WS_VISIBLE | WS_DISABLED, 22, 110, 50, 8 
   CONTROL "", 20107, STATIC, SS_OWNERDRAW | WS_CHILD | WS_VISIBLE | WS_DISABLED, 79, 110, 50, 8 
   CONTROL "", 20109, STATIC, SS_OWNERDRAW | WS_CHILD | WS_VISIBLE | WS_DISABLED, 136, 110, 50, 8 
}

[alib_i]

Thanx .. I'll try it


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alibi

[ashisharya]

cool man! thanx for ur marvellous tutorial

[Vishal Gupta]

OK! Guys

I just made some changes in my "Shell32.dll" file to change the look of Progress Dialog Box

I'm attaching some screenshots of my new Progress dialog box:

How did u attach the calendar? and how come your site points to www.thinkdigit.com

[khin007]

nice one yaaar .. superb

[Kniwor]

one useful post in long time, thanks

[wizrulz]

CAn u please also elaborate and post the codes and the changes u made...it will help someone like me who doesnt knows how to plays with registry..

[superuser]

ya man pls post the details

[Vishal Gupta]

Attaching the calendar

Open Shell32.dll in Resource Hacker and got:

Dialog -> 1020 -> 1033

In right-side pane, right-click on the Dialog box and select Insert Control and click on the button saying Dec 16 and then OK.

Now u can move it or resize it according to ur requirements!

This can be done in ne dialog box in ne file!!!

[wizrulz]

Can u post for the codes, methods, tweaks of the screnshots u have posted???.....please

[Vishal Gupta]

OKie, here u go buddy...

Code for the Progress box, which I posted earlier:

1020 DIALOGEX 20, 20, 266, 160
STYLE DS_FIXEDSYS | DS_MODALFRAME | DS_NOIDLEMSG | WS_POPUP | WS_CAPTION | WS_SYSMENU
CAPTION ""
LANGUAGE LANG_ENGLISH, SUBLANG_ENGLISH_US
FONT 8, "MS SHELL DLG"
{
   CONTROL 701, -1, STATIC, SS_BITMAP | WS_CHILD | WS_VISIBLE, 0, 0, 400, 48 
   CONTROL "", 103, STATIC, SS_LEFTNOWORDWRAP | SS_NOPREFIX | WS_CHILD | WS_VISIBLE, 7, 67, 170, 10 
   CONTROL "", 102, STATIC, SS_LEFTNOWORDWRAP | SS_NOPREFIX | WS_CHILD | WS_VISIBLE, 52, 143, 210, 10 
   CONTROL "", 104, "msctls_progress32", WS_CHILD | WS_VISIBLE, 7, 95, 250, 30 
   CONTROL "", 105, STATIC, SS_LEFT | SS_NOPREFIX | WS_CHILD | WS_VISIBLE, 7, 80, 250, 10 
   CONTROL "", 106, STATIC, SS_GRAYFRAME | WS_CHILD | WS_VISIBLE, 0, 135, 266, 1 
   CONTROL "Current file:", 2, STATIC, SS_LEFT | WS_CHILD | WS_VISIBLE, 7, 143, 40, 10 
   CONTROL "", 0, "SysDateTimePick32", DTS_SHORTDATEFORMAT | WS_CHILD | WS_VISIBLE, 177, 65, 80, 14 
}

Just open "Shell32.dll" file in Resource Hacker and nevigate to Dialog -> 1020 -> 1033 and overrite the code with my code...

PS: As u can see there is an extra entry for CONTROL 701 in my code, this is for the PIC, I used in my progress box. So u hv to also add a pic named 701 in BITMAP...

[wizrulz]

Imagine me standing and clapping....good work.....keep posting those ones dude....thanks in advance

[mehulved]

Vishal have you applied vista transformation pack or are you using vista or have you editied the close button yourself? The close button on your last screenie looks like the one I saw in Vista screenshots.
BTW, nice thread you've made.

[sujithtom]

Cool info. I first thought u were using Windows Blinds!

[Vishal Gupta]

Its only a Visual Style, named "Aero Style (Glass - 50xx)"...

[mehulved]

The close button there resembles the vista's one so much so I was wondering.

[Vishal Gupta]

Yeah! The visual style is very nice! It totally resembles to VISTA...

I didnt like ne visual style except the Royale but when i got this VS, I hvnt used neother till today