Tweaking the Run Box (Windows Resource Hacking)

Posted Saturday, July 24, 2004 5:56 PM by CumpsD
Time for a new article, but not about C# this time.

This time it's about Resource Hacking, more particulary, we'll customize the Windows Run box so it will look something like this:



If you're interested, take a look at the article: Custom Run Box (Resource Hacking).
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# re: Tweaking the Run Box (Windows Resource Hacking)

Saturday, July 24, 2004 1:07 PM by Omer van Kloeten

Sweet mother of God. :D
Is there an impact on the amount of time it takes for the dialog to load?

# re: Tweaking the Run Box (Windows Resource Hacking)

Saturday, July 24, 2004 1:13 PM by David Cumps

None at all :)
WIN + R and it's there immediately ;)

There's a lot more you can tweak in shell32.dll, I replaced most of the icons in there as well. I am using them for more than a year now and suddenly they jumped back to the default due to a Windows Update (which apparently replaced my shell32.dll), but boy, I wasn't used to those anymore, quickly back to my own :p

# re: Tweaking the Run Box (Windows Resource Hacking)

Saturday, July 24, 2004 4:12 PM by -

What visual theme are you using? That's a nice looking start button as well.

# re: Tweaking the Run Box (Windows Resource Hacking)

Sunday, July 25, 2004 5:03 AM by Meurice

wheeeeeeeee

it works, nice tutorial!!!!!!

# re: Tweaking the Run Box (Windows Resource Hacking)

Sunday, July 25, 2004 7:28 AM by David Cumps

The theme is watercolor, but it's with a hacked uxtheme.dll

(http://www.neowin.net/articles.php?action=more&id=54&perpage=1&pagenum=4)

# re: Tweaking the Run Box (Windows Resource Hacking)

Sunday, July 25, 2004 6:45 PM by Jochen

Nice tutorial, works perfect here!!

Thank you!! :) btw, I like the theme too =) with the nice, tight lay-out :)

# re: Tweaking the Run Box (Windows Resource Hacking)

Sunday, July 25, 2004 11:10 PM by Eric Newton

I'm sad that Windows Forms removed "Resource Hacking" of this kind, but I'm hoping that XAML/Avalon will re-enable it.

Heck, I've got Macintosh games with the "Resource stored sounds" completely hacked to the point of utter silliness yet so funny to play.

A game of Links where the ambient bird sounds were replaced with funny comments from friends. An app with a dialog box with controls completely reordered just to fool with anybody who might wanna do something serious with a computer :-)

# re: Tweaking the Run Box (Windows Resource Hacking)

Monday, July 26, 2004 11:53 AM by BertG

Love the tutorials, keep them comming