TUTORIAL: Change Look-n-Feel of Windows XP Start Menu

[Vishal Gupta]

Guys!
In this tutorial, I'll tell u about a few things, which can be used to change the look-n-feel of XP start menu.
After following my tut, u'll get ur Start menu look as shown in following screenshot:




http://www.askvg.com/folder-list-and...windows-vista/

[Tech Geek]

nice tut
repped you

[salilrane]

xcellent work vishal......

[ashisharya]

gr8 info......

[Vishal Gupta]

thnx guys for ur valuable comments and the reps.

[wizrulz]

i dunno how u come with so good tuts....but i must say everytime u make it better.....i am literally standing and applauding...feel it...
repped u..

[Vishal Gupta]

Buddy! that was a wonderful comment
Its really so nice of u
thnx for ur appreciations and reps...

[Quiz_Master]

Hey Vishal you are genius. Keep them coming.

[mrmani]

Great Job guys... keep cont....

[anandk]

a real nice one vishal, abhi tuze kya rep karega thanx.

[Vishal Gupta]

thnx a lot guys for such precious comments

[Ron]

Hey Guru............
Great Tut.......................
Sorry unable to rep u as "You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to Vishal Gupta again.".....................

[Vishal Gupta]

Ur valuable comments are better than the reps
It means a lot for me that u spent ur time in reading my tuts.

[Siddharth Maheshwari]

tHANX ViShAl
cAN u tell me how to link images in a resource file say .dll to a menu or dialog box and can u provide me a site which tells how to create a .dll file.
And thanx for the reply in the Q&A section u r great
Vishal Gupta = God of computer

[Vishal Gupta]

thnx buddy for the appreciations.
Regarding to the image linking, I'm not sure if its possible. I never tried it so can't tell u much. But I'll try it whenever possible.

[iceeeeman]

Great Job Vishal... keep cont....

[Siddharth Maheshwari]

Can u tell me some free sub-domain provider sites
Plz give me ur yahho messenger name and id so that i can add u.I think u will like to be my frnd although i know u r a very busy person.

[Tech Geek]

Originally Posted by siddharth_2463107

Can u tell me some free sub-domain provider sites
Plz give me ur yahho messenger name and id so that i can add u.I think u will like to be my frnd although i know u r a very busy person.

you could have created a separate thread for it
can you give me your i'd VG

[Siddharth Maheshwari]

Originally Posted by Tech Geek

you could have created a separate thread for it
can you give me your i'd VG

I didn't nderstood what do u mean by i'd VG

[Abhishek Dwivedi]

hey vishal grt job...need a lil help...i tried replacing all programs but couldnt...can u post the reg file to do so...plzz....and aslo where cani change the name of recycle bin...del MY PICTURE & MY MUSIC folder...plzz tell....

[Vishal Gupta]

Originally Posted by Abhishek Dwivedi

hey vishal grt job...need a lil help...i tried replacing all programs but couldnt...can u post the reg file to do so...plzz....and aslo where cani change the name of recycle bin...del MY PICTURE & MY MUSIC folder...plzz tell....

thnx buddy, Its my pleasure that u liked it.

I hv attached the REG file, which will do the following points automatically:

5. (a.) Disable "All Programs" option from Start menu
5. (b.) Change "Favorites" path to "Programs" folder

NOTE: I'm assuming that u hv Windows installed on C: Drive, if its installed on some other partition, then simply change C: to that drive letter in the file.

To change the name of Recycle Bin, just goto:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}\ShellFolder

and in right-side pane, change value of Attributes to 50 01 00 20. After applying this trick, u can rename the Recycle Bin.

[Abhishek Dwivedi]

that worked...lol....well i just got a cool new virus in ma PC...well i was just trying to FTP a site and got it...nevermind....the problem is that this virus has
done this:

1. when i open cmd.exe ...windows restart
2. Regedit.exe is banned...well no problems in that...i can edit regestry though registry editor
3. flocked folder option
4.there a a few stupid files with a icon of a folder at C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Local Settings\Application Data
i wana delete them...used UNLOCKER...tune up...didnt work...i dont wana user anti virus...can u help a lil...thatnx buddy....

[Chetan1991]

It,s really a good one!!and the visual style made by you is really awesome.Is there any way we can enlarge the icon in windows like in Vista??

[s18000rpm]

very nicely done Tutorial.

Thanks again Mr.Vista

[infra_red_dude]

ok one question: how do u remove the icons before my computer/music/run/search etc by hacking explorer.exe?

[casanova]

Nice tut Vishal.
Does VistaVG =VistaVishalGupta

Originally Posted by Vishal Gupta

5.) And this one is my favorite trick.
I use this trick to remove "All Programs" menu from Start menu bcoz it doesnt look decent and manytimes it gets automatically selected while selecting other entries in Start menu. So I change "Favorites" path to "Programs" folder, so that we can access our program shortcuts. So just follow these steps:

So true

[Vishal Gupta]

thnx to everyone.

@infra_red_dude
It has to be done in he theme (.msstyles file).

@casanova
Yeah! u can say.

[ax3]

nice 1 ...............

that is wow

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