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  1. 09-16-2011 #1


    GamerLCD

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    Changing start menu background color


    That green is kinda of iffy. Is there a way to change its color.
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  2. 09-18-2011 #2


    Delold

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    Well... Vishal Gusta posted a nice article about customizing Metro UI

    How to Customize or Change Start Screen Green Background, Start Button, Tiny Start Menu and Other Metro UI Stuff in Windows 8? - Tweaking with Vishal
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  3. 09-18-2011 #3
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    Quote Originally Posted by Delold View Post
    Well... Vishal Gusta posted a nice article about customizing Metro UI

    How to Customize or Change Start Screen Green Background, Start Button, Tiny Start Menu and Other Metro UI Stuff in Windows 8? - Tweaking with Vishal
    And if you are too lazy for all that, check this.

    8102 with purple bg by ~thepanda-x on deviantART
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  4. 10-08-2011 #4


    gt1991

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    A tool for the purpose..


    http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials...lor-image.html
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  5. 10-09-2011 #5


    Jaydon

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    The only issue with changing your shsxs.dll and uxtheme.dll files is that sometimes they break themes in other programs. This happened to me, but luckily I backed them up so I could restore them. Be sure to do this if you play with your .dll files.
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  6. 10-09-2011 #6
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    Mantra > Make sure to backup files {and create a System Restore point} before fiddling with anything...
    Last edited by JMH; 10-11-2011 at 01:36 AM.
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  7. 10-10-2011 #7
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    I second JMH and cant stress enough. Backup, backup, backup. You will wish you had
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  8. 10-11-2011 #8
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    Quote Originally Posted by gt1991 View Post
    A tool for the purpose..


    http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials...lor-image.html
    Lovely tool
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  9. 10-24-2011 #9


    gt1991

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    Another tool I recently came in touch with to Apply Themes, Enable some other Features as well like disabling the Metro UI etc.
    Windows 8: Windows 8 BluePoison official download page: Windows 8 downloader / sbloccare tutte le funzioni nascoste di Windows 8
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