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Ciastex

CPCookieMan wrote:

voyager8907 wrote:

What would I use if I wanted to make some mods to Longhorn Build 5048?

As I have learned here it is not a program that you use. I personally have made a few changes to Windows XP using reshack.

Basic Editing Tutorial:
1. Copy the installer CD contents to your hard drive for editing.
2. Extract MSGINA.DL_ NTOSKERNEL.EX_ and SHELL32.DL_ with the command "extract [INPUT.DL_] [OUTPUT.DLL]" This is the same command for EXE.
3. Open the extracted files one by one and poke around, maybe replace some stuff with reshack.
4. Save the files
5. Get compress.exe from Google
6. Use compress.exe with the opposite syntax of the extract command to recompress.
6. Make the finished product into a Windows installer ISO with nLite (NT5 Based) or vLite (NT6 Based).

It's not too hard, except for the fact that I don't know how to recompress yet. Most of the easy stuff to edit is in BMP format, you can pull it into Photoshop or GIMP... Heck, you could pull it into Paint.

CPCookieMan

Oh my god... Did you hear about built-in makecab.exe utility? Simply go to folder where extracted file is, and type "makecab file.ext". Where file is your filename and ext is the extension. It will make "file.ex_" cabinet if your file is not file.ext but, shell32.dll it will make "shell32.dl_", you know what I'm trying to say? Because all of those files are cabinets. Also, use ModifyPE.exe for updating checksums, to avoid system errors. Find it with Google

CPCookieMan

voyager8907 wrote:

Do you extract with Command Prompt?

I personally used PowerShell, but command prompt should work just fine.

CPCookieMan

voyager8907

CPCookieMan wrote:

voyager8907 wrote:

Do you extract with Command Prompt?

I personally used PowerShell, but command prompt should work just fine.

CPCookieMan

Cool.
I am looking to start a Longhorn 5048 mod.
I say 5048 because I want the theme it has.
It is better than Aero or Luna.

CPCookieMan

voyager8907 wrote:

Cool.
I am looking to start a Longhorn 5048 mod.
I say 5048 because I want the theme it has.
It is better than Aero or Luna.

This one right? http://www.microsoftcollectionbook.com/ ... ofessional
Looks pretty close to Aero to me...

CPCookieMan

Barabba

maybe he meant metal skin
it has its magic but gets annoying soon as it was never high quality

ssvam

Use Microsoft Windows AIK.

voyager8907

Barabba wrote:

maybe he meant metal skin
it has its magic but gets annoying soon as it was never high quality

The only problem I had was it was very sluggish in Virtual PC 2007.
And I did mean the metal skin.

Barabba

VPC is piece of sh..

voyager8907

Barabba wrote:

VPC is piece of sh..

Yeah.
I'm never using it for longhorn ever again.

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