In this tutorial, I'll tell you about various system files in Windows Vista, which can be hacked using Resource Hacker / Resource Tuner to change the look of Windows dialog boxes, menus, login screen, boot screen and many other things. So here we start the tutorial:
Approx. all Windows Vista system icons -> %windir%\System32\imageres.dll
Login Screen Background -> %windir%\System32\imageres.dll
Startup ORB animation images -> %windir%\System32\authui.dll
Startup ORB Sound -> %windir%\System32\imageres.dll
Shutdown/ lock, etc. buttons in Startmenu -> %windir%\Explorer.exe -> Bitmap -> 7051 - 7056
Windows Version Image in About Windows dialog box -> %windir%\Branding\Basebrd\basebrd.dll
Windows Version Image in Login Screen bottom -> %windir%\Branding\Basebrd\basebrd.dll
Classic Start button flag and Classic Start menu left side image -> %windir%\Branding\Shellbrd\shellbrd.dll
Control Panel Left Sidebar Bottom Image -> %windir%\System32\Shell32.dll -> Bitmap -> 632
Back & Forward, Search, Stop, Refresh buttons in Windows Explorer -> %windir%\System32\browseui.dll
Back & Forward, Search, Stop, Refresh, Progress animation, tabs, tab close, etc. buttons in Internet Explorer -> %windir%\System32\ieframe.dll
Welcome Center Images -> %windir%\System32\oobefldr.dll
Boot Screen background image in "No GUI boot" condition -> %windir%\System32\en-US\Winload.exe.mui
Windows Media Player Resources -> %windir%\System32\wmploc.dll
Above are the new system files/locations in Windows Vista which were not present in earlier versions, like XP. But if you want to change look of various dialog boxes like RUN, Progress, System Properties, Startmenu and Taskbar Properties, etc. Then you'll have to edit the same system files which you used to edit in Windows XP. The difference is, now those files don't contain the resources but their .MUI files do.
So if you want to edit RUN dialog box which was present in "%windir%\System32\Shell32.dll" file in XP, is now present in "%windir%\System32\en-US\Shell32.dll.mui" file in Windows Vista.
So in following list, I'll tell you where all those files are present in Windows Vista:
All those files are present in any of following 2 locations:
%windir%\en-US\
%windir%\System32\en-US\
To know about those various system files containing dialog boxes, menus, etc. resources, please visit following link:
List of Files to be hacked using Resource Hacker
List of Resource Locations in Windows XP, Vista and 7 to be Hacked Using Resource Hacker
All those file names and resource locations are same in XP and Vista.
I hope you guys will like it.
This article was posted in Resource Hacker, Windows Vista.
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John Marshall
Can someone help me with the words : Welcome, Logging Off and Shutting on the logon screens of vista? John
John Marshall
Is there a way to add wav files to a dialog box? John
VG
^^ Nope.
John Marshall
is there a way to add font styles and pictures to string tables? John
John Marshall
I have several dialog boxes that I am customizing in reshacker that use string tables. I would like change the fonts so that when to dialog box is displayed it shows the strings with the fonts in the stringtable. Is this possible? john
VG
^^ You can change the font of any dialog box by going to that dialog box resource and change the font name mentioned at 5th line in code. It would be like following:
FONT 8, "MS Shell Dlg"
John Marshall
Can this be done inside a stringtable? Such as :
STRINGTABLE
LANGUAGE LANG_ENGLISH, SUBLANG_ENGLISH_US
{
3009, "LED BOARD","15" <----Font name, Can this be done?
3010, "OK"
3011, "Cancel"
3012, "&Yes"
3013, "&No"
3014, "&Retry"
3015, "&Browse"
3016, "No languages found in lang.ini"
3017, "Ke&yboard Type: "
3018, "&Continue"
3019, "N&o"
}
VG
^^ No.
John Marshall
101 DIALOGEX 0, 0, 350, 227
STYLE DS_FIXEDSYS | WS_CHILD | WS_CAPTION
CAPTION "Welcome"
LANGUAGE LANG_ENGLISH, SUBLANG_ENGLISH_US
FONT 9, "Segoe UI"
{
CONTROL "", 1246, STATIC, SS_BITMAP | SS_CENTERIMAGE | WS_CHILD | WS_VISIBLE, 166, 23, 48, 77 , 0x00000020
Can I add another font here?
CONTROL "Install Windows", 1023, STATIC, SS_CENTER | WS_CHILD | WS_VISIBLE | WS_GROUP, 20, 86, 320, 16
CONTROL "The installation process consists of a few easy steps, then\nWindows will finish installing on its own.", -1, STATIC, SS_CENTER | WS_CHILD | WS_VISIBLE | WS_GROUP, 20, 109, 320, 24
CONTROL "&Next", 1012, BUTTON, BS_OWNERDRAW | WS_CHILD | WS_VISIBLE | WS_TABSTOP, 302, 210, 43, 13
}
John
VG
^^ As I earlier said you can change the font only by editing the 5th line.