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Vista Style Builder
June 26th, 2008
by Andreas

The last couple of weeks, I have been working incredibly hard on a tool to create Vista Style Builder. Vista Style Builder supports everything that is needed to create Visual Styles for Vista:

  • Import and export images
  • Change, add or remove properties
  • Import and export STREAM images
  • Compile into a totally new MsStyles-file

In this post I will highlight some details of Vista Style Builder (VSB) which show how much easier this application makes it to edit MsStyles.

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Posted in Software, Tips/Tricks/Hacks, Windows | 73 Comments »

Adding custom buttons to the Explorer command bar
June 7th, 2008
by Andreas

With Vista, Microsoft redesigned Windows Explorer a lot. One of the biggest changes was the removal of the customizable toolbar. Up to Windows XP, adding or removing the buttons that were displayed in Explorer was a simple chore.
With Vista, this customization ability is gone; the toolbar is replaced by a so-called green shaded “commandbar,” and none of it can be customized unless you are willing to take a dive into the registry.

In this post, I will show you a way to add custom buttons — like in the above image — to the commandbar by adding items to the registry. Unfortunately, not all buttons (e.g. New Folder) are possible via this way.

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Posted in Tips/Tricks/Hacks, Windows | 19 Comments »