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Windows The green start button...

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  1. Cheese

    Cheese Doc

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    Hopefully just a quickie... does anyone know how to change the green start button to some other (nicer) colour? I've read through lots of guides to change the text etc. (using restorator) but I want rid of that green button before I start using XP proper (it's on dual boot until some new drivers are released).

    Can anyone help?

    Cheers,

    r.
     
    Cheese, 23 Oct 2001
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  2. SuperScrubber

    SuperScrubber Mad Chemist.....buwahahaa

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    Looking a bit lonely in here m8.......

    Theres lots of stuff in the windoze forum of ocuk. Tried it myself but it didnt work (didnt have much time to spend trying mind)...........not too fussed though, the bar's auto-hidden 99% of the time.......:)
     
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  3. Cheese

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    lol... I know all this, you told me yesterday! Thanks all the same Ed :D

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  4. SuperScrubber

    SuperScrubber Mad Chemist.....buwahahaa

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    I'm bored at the moment..........waiting for a QMMM ADF calculation to finish..............thought you might appreiate a reply to your post..............:p :p
     
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  5. Cheese

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    Awww... thanks for the support mate :D LOL.

    Hope the work is treating you well... any luck sourcing your monitor mate?

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  6. Lordflash

    Lordflash What's a Dremel?

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    dont knwo how to do that but i now have a black screen of death rather than a blue one :)
     
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  7. Cheese

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    lol... I've never seen a screen of death in XP in any colour *touch wood*. :D

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  8. SuperScrubber

    SuperScrubber Mad Chemist.....buwahahaa

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    ..............baring in mind that you still use ME instead of XP at the mo I'm not surprised you've not seen a BSOD yet m8............!!!! :p

    Although saying that................I've not seen one yet.................just locks up instead !!!!!! :(
     
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  9. Cheese

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    heh :D

    I used XP for quite some time with dodgy drivers I'll have you know and during that time it hung many times... but not once did I get a BSOD. So there :p

    :D

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  10. Phil

    Phil What's a Dremel?

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    I heard that the customizeable BSOD for winXP was a major selling point for it, especially over Linux, which doesn't even have a BSOD, yet alone a customizable one !
     
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  11. Cheese

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    :D don't turn this into a windows v. linux thread please... :D

    Cheers,

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  12. ChriX

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    Im using windows xp properly, have been for about a month now, it rocks.
     
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  13. Cheese

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    I like it a lot too, but I have a few driver problems atm... the 5.1 creative software makes the startup take two minutes post logging in and my flash card reader software stops it shutting down (!!).

    Still, won't be long before new drivers are around I'm sure :)

    Cheers,

    r.
     
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  14. ChriX

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    Well, I have just one problem, but its nothing like that, its just the sliders in my sound card control dont work. Well some of them arent even there, theres just a blank space...
     
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  15. SuperScrubber

    SuperScrubber Mad Chemist.....buwahahaa

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    Ditto here.............but hes got a fancy pants set of new speakers so not being able to use them fully is quite a nuisance...............I'm still trying to convince him to ditch ME once and for all thoguh :D
     
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  16. Ataraxia

    Ataraxia <b>OOH BABY!!!</b>

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    I got XP yesterday and installed it on my home machine...
    you can 'sort of' make it look like classic windows...
    right click on desktop -> properties
    in the first tab, you can change the theme of windows... there's a windows XP setting and a windows classic setting.. the classic one gives you back your grey start button
     
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  17. Cheese

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    He's right. My new speakers are fancy pants :D lol do you know how much better mp3's sound out of four speakers than two... I'm not going ot give that up easily!

    Cheers,

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  18. Cheese

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    Re: Re: The green start button...

    Yep... I've seen that option before. The thing is that I like the new windows look (well it looks like it was designed for a five year old when you first install it, but you cna soon make it look nice)... it's just that I'd like that new start button to be blue, or yellow or any of colour than sick green :D

    Cheers,

    r.
     
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  19. Kevo

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    I dont like the new look of XP ;) very thing is to rounded and cute.

    The only real reason im using XP is the startbar features that actually make it handy e.g. it puts open programs in order on your start bar.
     
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  20. Cheese

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    LOL I still don't like the new start bar :D

    Your name should be 'MrChalkMan'!

    Cheers,

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