![]() ![]() In celebration of the release of Windows 10, I'm going to be updating the skin to include a few new variations, including: ![]() I would love to figure out a way to use a 3D border with visual styles, but I don't want to use a bitmap to achieve this to keep consistency between the start menu and the user's color/window metric settings. Once again, I'm always open to feedback, so let me know if you have any. I was just sick of getting saving errors/glitches with Resource Hacker. Instead, I'm using Microsoft Visual Studio to compile it as a resource-only DLL file. I am no longer using Resource Hacker to update/change this skin. Except for one other change that probably won't affect the users who download this skin. FINALLY added the Windows Server 2008 without Hyper-V captions (that certainly took long enough). The flat border with the classic theme can still be enabled in the options. 3D border is now enabled by default when using the Windows Classic theme. For example: 'Custom 1' is now called 'Custom 1 (Classic)' and 'Custom 2' is now called 'Custom 2 (Vista), ect. Custom Skin variations now have names attached to them. Added a Metro custom variant, which will use your start screen colors if your using Windows 8/8.1 Time for another update! Here's a list of changes: And again, feel free to give any other thoughts or feedback. If I'm missing any captions, please let me know and I will do my best to add them. If anyone can send me a link to an ISO file of it, that would be great. I still need to find the Windows Server 2008 without Hyper-V captions. NOTE: When replacing the old skin with this one, you may have to re-select the caption you want manually due to the fact that resources in the skin have been moved around. This skin alone now has 100 different variations to select! Custom captions have been moved to the bottom of the skin variations list to make it easier to add more custom caption variations in the future (just in case I decide to do so). I'll update with the original caption as soon as I can (for those of you who want to see what it looks like, see here). Added a variation for Windows 95 Beta, which currently uses a placeholder image. This does not affect the 'Windows Codename Chicago (Thin)' variation. This is not a bug, and it is in fact by design (see here). The icons in the Windows Codename Chicago variation now overlap the caption. For example, Windows 95/98/Me/NT use Microsoft Sans Serif, Windows 2000/XP/Server 2003 use Tahoma, and Windows Vista+ use Segoe UI. Each caption uses an appropriate font for the username. Better support for displaying the user name/user picture. ![]() Removed the 'No caption' option, as it is kind of pointless for this skin. Renamed the skin from 'Windows Classic' to 'Windows Classic Captions' Ok, so I've got an update for you guys! The download will be in the first post of this thread. on Fri 11:58 pm, edited 22 times in total. Feel free to give me any feedback or suggestions. Keep in mind this is still a work in progress, so there may be issues with it. But with this skin, you can have it look exactly like whichever version of Windows you'd like (which is a lot). For example, making the caption say 'Windows 2000 Professional' won't make it look like the original Windows 2000 caption, as the fonts and colors will likely be off. With the default classic skin, there is no way to have the fonts be completely accurate. Now if anyone is wondering what the point of this is (seeing as how the default classic skin will already let you use custom text) it's actually quite simple. So I made a skin based on the default classic skin that contains the original classic start menu captions for every version of Windows (including beta versions). However, I though a thread like this would be more appropriate under the User Content forum. ![]() In this thread I was working on a skin that contained every caption for every version of Windows. ![]()
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