Techno Child

This may have been posted already, but instead of going through safemode/cmd prompt you could always use Replacer. I use this all the time to swap out explorer.exe after modding it with rezhack.

Cheers

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yegs2000

hmmm. So i have some problems! lol. I modified msgina.dll so that my default Win XP Pro bitmaps are overrided with custom bitmaps with my company logo on them. this works great. however there is one i cant find i searched msgina.dll and shell32.dll for the last win xp pro logo to replace and i felt relieved after i found a win xp pro logo in shell32. so i followed the steps provided in the tutorial to change this and everything was sucessfully modified however i still get the win xp pro logo. I cant find where its at to replace it!

Any advice
Thanks!
-yegs

machkris

I want to edit the Shell32.dll in XP so that it can show the "file transfer speed" just like in Vista. Is this possible? And how?

computeridiot

I recently followed these steps to change a theme on my laptop:

1. Login as a user with Administrative privileges -or- have Administrative credentials ready (check under the keyboard for a slip of paper).
2. Navigate to %systemroot%\System32
3. Right-click uxtheme.dll and click properties.
4. Take ownership of the file and close dialogs.
5. Repeat steps 3 and 4 for themeui.dll and shsvcs.dll
6. Right-click uxtheme.dll and click properties.
7. Give yourself (or group) Full Control permissions and close dialogs.
8. Repeat steps 6 and 7 for themeui.dll and shsvcs.dll.
9. Rename uxtheme.dll to uxtheme.old.
10. Rename themeui.dll to themeui.old.
11. Rename shsvcs.dll to shsvcs.old.
12. Copy patched files into %systemroot%\System32
13. Reboot (yes, this is really required)
14. Enjoy!

...Only I accidently ignored step 12!
Resultantly after rebooting i logged in to see:

"This application failed to start because UxTheme.dll was not be found. Re-installing this application may fix this problem"

This popped up for several things, explorer.exe, dwm.exe, then my computer rather frantically told me that my calendar, desktop window manager and explorer had stopped working. The screen subsequently went black.

Is it possible to rename these changed .dll files back?

Pleasee help!

COMPUTERIDIOT