How change 7 Background color in sks ?
And searchbar background in startmenu
Friday, March 11, 2011 by neone6 | Discussion: Skinning
How do I change 7 Background color in sks ?
And searchbar/field-background in startmenu....
Pretty much it 
Reply #2 Friday, March 11, 2011 2:43 PM
Thankz... By the way, did you create "Diamond" B/W theme ?
Reply #6 Friday, March 11, 2011 6:28 PM
Going by your screenshot, the "how to" is listed below. If it's the search background described in your post, what Lightstar said is correct... 
left side - Edit Vista / 7 Explorer Parts> Folders Bar> Extra Settings> Background Colour
right side - Explorer Backgrounds> Active/Inactive Window> careful though....whatever images you use will be tiled 
Reply #7 Friday, March 11, 2011 6:33 PM
Seen your stuff navigatsio...I´m honoured to be tutored by you !! Thanks a Billion ! 
Reply #9 Saturday, March 12, 2011 4:52 AM
Quoting neone6,
reply 2
Thankz... By the way, did you create "Diamond" B/W theme ?
Yes, I did, but it was a .msstyles theme, not released in WB format (yet).
PS.. The Stardock Diamond theme is not B/W Doc.
Reply #10 Saturday, March 12, 2011 8:20 AM
Tom's old school and back in the day...when you walked five miles to school...in the snow...both ways, Litestep, Aston and VS skinners used notepad and a good hex editor to do what SKS does today. Still today, when I make the occasional Aston theme, notepad++ is what I use for creating the entire theme (no "skinning" program available from them yet) so some of you pups really got it made and don't know it....
Reply #11 Saturday, March 12, 2011 9:27 AM
There used to be a company also that made an application similar to SkinStudio for designing skins in .msstyles format, but they have since gone out of business. SkinStudiio is the only fairly easy application around now that I know of for designing skins.
Hey, how did you know I walked five miles, (actually it was 6 though)? 
Reply #12 Saturday, March 12, 2011 1:06 PM
dang, forgot the uphill both ways part too.... 
I know it was made by tgtsoft but not sure about the program name. Stylebuilder...maybe??? It's been awhile since I dabbled in VS. Wonder if they're patching Windows 7???
Reply #13 Saturday, March 12, 2011 5:54 PM
Yes "stylebuilder" I checked... seems to be a good old thing. 
Reply #14 Saturday, March 12, 2011 6:09 PM
Tom's old school and back in the day...when you walked five miles to school...in the snow...both ways
dang, forgot the uphill both ways part too....
There used to be a company also that made an application similar to SkinStudio for designing skins in .msstyles format
I know it was made by tgtsoft but not sure about the program name. Stylebuilder...maybe??? It's been awhile since I dabbled in VS. Wonder if they're patching Windows 7???
Yes, there is a UXTheme.dll patch out for Windows 7, and there is an application to design Windows 7 .msstyles out there somewhere, but for the life of me I cannot rememeber its name. I tried it once, but if you're not a programmer it is really tough to figure out. I'll stick with SKS and WB myself. 
Reply #15 Saturday, March 12, 2011 6:14 PM
It was in its day, but no longer. You cannot even get a serial number to unlock it any more unless you do it illegally. Its WB like counterpart called StyleXP only worked on Windows XP SP2 and below also, and you cannot get a serial number for it any more either.
Reply #16 Saturday, March 12, 2011 6:20 PM
Ahaa...But I opened your B/W Diamond in "Tuneup utillities" with no fuzz @ all.......I really like that skin. A perfect B/W-Tech combo !
Reply #17 Saturday, March 12, 2011 8:39 PM
Oh yeah, I forgot about TuneUp Utilities, yes it will apply .msstyles themes with no problems. I think it only works in XP though, not really sure. Think I'll check that out soon.
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Reply #1 Friday, March 11, 2011 2:10 PM
As far as the search field in the start menu, in SKS click on Theme part details, then Address field, it is the Search field background in the Glassy Areas, and the defualt is 4, not 5 as listed. Not sure about the others.