Classicshell Full themes MEGATHREAD

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Classicshell Full themes MEGATHREAD Aug 26, 2019 17:12:29 GMT -8

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Post by powerplayer on Aug 26, 2019 17:12:29 GMT -8

Due to complaints of spamming and stuff i decided to move all my themes here and update these thread when i make new material in order to keep things organized and less bloated :

First you need to install classicshell ClassicShellSetup_4_3_1.exe (6.9 MB) Openshell does not load the skins properly

01. Modernclassic Metro.rar (373.04 KB)

As stated on the picture above just drop the folders in classicshell folder then run the xml in the theme folder (that goes for all my skins )

02. I played this operating system roleplaying game called kingsway and decided to make the startmenu looking like the game here they are side by side

kingsway.rar (33.96 KB) a game within a real OS

posted on Jan 14, 2019 at 9:23pm Im deleting the original thread to reduce bloat

03 Macos7 made on Dec 24, 2018 at 4:43am Think different use a maos startmenu lol macos7.rar (26.3 KB)

04 Winhn

Originally i made this way back in the xp days so when i found an image of my own modded xp i decided to port it to classicshell
winhn.rar (10.0 KB)

05 Win9x

Feeling retro yet? time to downgrade startmenu to good old win95 win9x.rar (32.0 KB)

06 Xpde Remember that early 2000's Xp window manager they did on linux? Well i ported it over xpde.rar (74.3 KB)

07 Reactos

What if reactos really worked? simulate with this startmenu reactos4.0.rar (173 KB)

08 Beos
Remember that 90s OS that never took off?
i honor its memory with a startmenu
beos.rar (627 KB)

09 Win 3.1

Strolling down the memory lane early 90s nostalgia
win3.rar (42.2 KB)

Finally a few modern start buttons

And the windows 8 startbutton

And the Large versions for superbar

And a pixel perfect win95 start button

Lately i made 95 theme for openshell

Win95.rar (95.47 KB)

For Openshell
allskinsandthemes.rar (8.2 MB)

Install openshell and startisback + then add this registry file to get all the modernclassic settings openshellstartisback.reg (82.0 KB)

Thanks to classic4ever i got this updated win95 skin win95b.skin (197.0 KB) Thanks dude!!!!

Last Edit: Jul 18, 2020 9:16:41 GMT -8 by powerplayer

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Classicshell Full themes MEGATHREAD Jul 5, 2020 1:01:02 GMT -8

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Post by classic4ever on Jul 5, 2020 1:01:02 GMT -8

Hi powerplayer,

Continuing from this thread

www.winclassic.net/thread/552/win-10-pro-1909-redesign?page=1&scrollTo=4679

- I'm just trying to make the main menu as slim/thin as possible.

I extracted the bitmap with reshacker, filled the caption area with rgb 212 208 200 but left all borders as original:

ibb.co/d4749nW

After replacing the bitmap with reshacker and reloading the skin in openshell the border shadows became bright. Padding the menu to the left of the bitmap (Main_padding) leads to flat black menu borders. Maybe I overlooked something?
If I use the original bitmap everything looks fine.

- In "customize Start Menu", if I remove an item (even a separator) the content underneath moves up and leaves back a semi transparent (!) empty space (212,208,200) after saving and loading a new .xml.

- I saw the other threads but even if I use classicshell instead of openshell as recommended there because of not properly loading skins I get this empty space. Btw this win95 skin is my favourite.

Best wishes

edit: Ok, I forgot to set the bitmap opacity (alpha channel) in Photoshop to 100% and now the colors and borders are fine. Then the first value in Main_padding must be always binary, e.g. not "2" but "02". So only the problem with the empty space under the search box is left.

edit2: I got it. First I have to remove (customize) all unneccesary items from the startmenu, then edit the skin "Main_bitmap_slices" and reduce the third value (3 digits) until the empty space is gone. If I add an item again in the menu, the menu expands.

Thanks a lot for this skin, looks like many many years ago now.

ibb.co/8zPcZfd

Last Edit: Jul 5, 2020 7:14:18 GMT -8 by classic4ever

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Classicshell Full themes MEGATHREAD Jul 5, 2020 14:17:58 GMT -8

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Post by powerplayer on Jul 5, 2020 14:17:58 GMT -8

Jul 5, 2020 1:01:02 GMT -8 classic4ever said:

edit2: I got it. First I have to remove (customize) all unneccesary items from the startmenu, then edit the skin "Main_bitmap_slices" and reduce the third value (3 digits) until the empty space is gone. If I add an item again in the menu, the menu expands.

Thanks a lot for this skin, looks like many many years ago now.

ibb.co/8zPcZfd

send over the finished version of the skin if you get it fully working with my theme that would be pretty cool in the meantime check out my themes and skins pack at the bottom of my main post added win10 beta skin.
One more thing i thing we need to remove the show user picture option and the show user name from the skin cause maybe the resize thing was made with these in mind (i modified the nt workstation skin + colors in the skin to get this menu so i agree its not perfect yet)
maybe even add win9x specific enhancements to it while keeping it small then we keep on making it look like the rest of the old windows-versions sounds good?

Last Edit: Jul 5, 2020 14:37:33 GMT -8 by powerplayer

powerplayer Established Member Focusing on new things Posts: 772	Classicshell Full themes MEGATHREAD Jul 5, 2020 17:44:45 GMT -8 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by powerplayer on Jul 5, 2020 17:44:45 GMT -8 windows98skin.skin (118.26 KB) anyway here is a win98 skin made it today pretty lightweight one without any bloat and it renders things correctly providing your using caption.
	Last Edit: Jul 5, 2020 17:46:06 GMT -8 by powerplayer

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Classicshell Full themes MEGATHREAD Jul 6, 2020 18:08:32 GMT -8

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Post by classic4ever on Jul 6, 2020 18:08:32 GMT -8

Hi powerplayer,

Yes, sounds good. We should keep the original classic menu skin with 3d-separators and 3d-borders and add only the themes of the different old windows versions. Did I get you right?

Link sent (pm).

Btw: I modified the hilight colour from grey to classic blue (rgb 10,36,106 or #0a246a) and hilight text colour to white, like in XP for example.

Your are right, user name and picture stretch the main menu horizontally after my modification, one has to increase the earlier mentioned padding. I never used them and would leave it away for standard.

If someone wants them nevertheless, I wrote which values have to be changed. Maybe there's a better solution, still need more time to tinker.

I'll check the other skins later, thanks for the update.

Best wishes

classic4ever New Member Posts: 10	Classicshell Full themes MEGATHREAD Jul 6, 2020 18:22:20 GMT -8 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by classic4ever on Jul 6, 2020 18:22:20 GMT -8 Strange, for me the main menu from your new skin has no 3d-borders and the separators in main- and submenu are not 3d, just lines. I'll look into it tomorrow. btw: The caption works. Good night

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Classicshell Full themes MEGATHREAD Jul 7, 2020 16:12:42 GMT -8

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Post by classic4ever on Jul 7, 2020 16:12:42 GMT -8

Hi powerplayer,

I checked your skin collection (for openshell) and must admit, my tinkering has ended.

Skin "Win98Plus! Retro" and "Classic Special 7" are absolute awesome. Maybe "Win98Plus! Retro" is slightly better because of the better looking font, the smaller menu size and the wide customizable caption. Plus it follows the system colours!

Optional username and picture show up clean without stretching or empty spaces, borders and separators are 3d, no need to edit any data.

Thanks for your efforts to keep the good old stuff alive!

Cheers

Last Edit: Jul 7, 2020 16:16:49 GMT -8 by classic4ever

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Classicshell Full themes MEGATHREAD Jul 7, 2020 17:21:54 GMT -8

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Post by powerplayer on Jul 7, 2020 17:21:54 GMT -8

Jul 7, 2020 16:12:42 GMT -8 classic4ever said:

Hi powerplayer,

I checked your skin collection (for openshell) and must admit, my tinkering has ended.

Skin "Win98Plus! Retro" and "Classic Special 7" are absolute awesome. Maybe "Win98Plus! Retro" is slightly better because of the better looking font, the smaller menu size and the wide customizable caption. Plus it follows the system colours!

Optional username and picture show up clean without stretching or empty spaces, borders and separators are 3d, no need to edit any data.

Thanks for your efforts to keep the good old stuff alive!

Cheers

yea but these skins that are with a bunch of stuff added to them take more space and thus the startmenu becomes slower with them i rather have a small lean startmenu cause it gets much quicker response overall , glad you like my skinpack also i use startisback with classic3 theme thats why i color the bitmaps in my skins accordingly to it unless we can modify classic3 theme to use win10 system color or respect all the system colors.

Classicshell Full themes MEGATHREAD

Post by powerplayer on Aug 26, 2019 17:12:29 GMT -8

Post by classic4ever on Jul 5, 2020 1:01:02 GMT -8

Post by powerplayer on Jul 5, 2020 14:17:58 GMT -8

Post by powerplayer on Jul 5, 2020 17:44:45 GMT -8

Post by classic4ever on Jul 6, 2020 18:08:32 GMT -8

Post by classic4ever on Jul 6, 2020 18:22:20 GMT -8

Post by classic4ever on Jul 7, 2020 16:12:42 GMT -8

Post by powerplayer on Jul 7, 2020 17:21:54 GMT -8