Windows 10: How would one edit explorer.exe to display backgrounds win 10

Ok hello people i'm trying to is make a full 3rd person theme for win 10 i got a win 8 theme and with a lot of messing around i got some of the anime stuff to show up
Like so :



but i cant get explorer to display background witch i really want to do as im creating my own full theme but getting it to work on windows 10 is hard due to the fact explorer.exe is quite a big file and im not sure how people have patched it in the past but trying to get it to display this

example



want to be one of the first to fully theme 10 just not sure what to do to explorer.exe to get it to do it

thanks in advance 5

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black background in office docuemnts like excel from 8.1 to win 10 upgrade

I am sure I am not the only one.

In win 8.1 the office programs background are black with whtoe writing.

IE also looked the same way with pages displayed in the background

I upgraded to win 10 hoping it would go away and the problem persists.

Looking for a fix now in win 10

any ideas to make this look normal again?

thank you in advance

Harold

 

Win 10 Upgrade not working

Background

Removed/Disabled GWX background service (KB3035583) using registry edits

Trying to upgrade to Win 10 Pro from Win 8.1 Pro

Windows Update (Cntrl Panel) displays Win 10 'Reserve' button

-- Clicking Reserve button does nothing: NO response/action from website or PC

Located MS website for immediate upgrade to Win 10 Pro

Downloaded GetWindows10-Web_Default_Attr.exe (~7.5Mb)

-- Double-clicking file results in NO response from PC

-- file does NOT 'run'

What must I do to proceed with Win 10 Pro upgrade?

Your help would be appreciated! Thanks!

 

why are you trying to alter the executable instead of just swapping out the tempfile?

That being said, just do it through the commandline. here's an example BAT

Code: @echo off reg add "HKCU\control panel\desktop" /v wallpaper /t REG_SZ /d "" /f reg add "HKCU\control panel\desktop" /v wallpaper /t REG_SZ /d "C:\[LOCATION OF WALLPAPER HERE]" /f reg delete "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Desktop\General" /v WallpaperStyle /f reg add "HKCU\control panel\desktop" /v WallpaperStyle /t REG_SZ /d 2 /f RUNDLL32.EXE user32.dll,UpdatePerUserSystemParameters exit[/quote]

 

He's not talking about the desktop wallpaper. He's talking about backgrounds in the File Explorer windows.

 

Ah. I think you used to be able to do that in XP's explorer settings, not sure if you can still or not.

 

Long ago, I used to hack into Windows 3.1-WFW3.11's command.com via Norton DiskEditor to alter some of its "display comments." The success is in staying within the byte-count allocated to each "comment." I'm not sure if present-day disk cluster/sector editors can pull that off successfully within explorer.exe -- make sure you have restorable OS images before trying same.

 

A downside to editing the Windows operating system files is that the license agreement the user has to accept during installation may prevent changing the software, could be flat-out illegal.

 

*Roflmao2*Roflmao2*Roflmao2

I guess that would make myself and the hundreds of thousands of people that run and make custom Windows themes criminals then ??

On the serious side, you used to be able to do it with third party software up until and including Windows Vista, after that MS changed the code and to the best of my knowledge I haven't seen anyone be able to do it after that.

 

As I remember in Windows XP you need to go to the hidden file for each folder it would be a desktop.ini file which you open with notebook and make a referce to a background picture of a specific color. I did this on Win 8 but there is no clue as to what controls the background color. I did find this link that might help you:

This is from somebody else:

When I first loaded Win 8 this was driving me nuts, too.
I like to set the background color of my windows to something other than white. It is much easier on the eyes.
So I did a little digging in the registry.
The settings are actually much nicer in Win 8 than in Win 7. I'm surprised no one has written a tool for this yet.
In windows 7 the colors are located in a rather obscure registry key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Appearance\New Schemes\Current Settings SaveAll\Sizes\0
from there the values are not named with user friendly names. It takes some experimenting to determine that Color #5 is the window background color.
Fortunately, in Win 8 it is much simpler. The colors are stored in this key.
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Colors
and the values have nice user friendly names, so Window is the window background color and Window Text is the window text, etc.
These are string values and the color format is decimal RGB values for the color you want in RRR GGG BBB.
black = 0 0 0, white is 255 255 255, silver is 192 192 192 and what I use personally is 206 197 151.
The change does not take effect immediately. You need to restart windows first.
As always, when editing the registry directly you are on your own and should only do so if you are comfortable. I take no responsibility.
Hope this helps others,

Read the whole link here which gives even more info:

Change Windows Background color in Windows 8

Good luck tell us if it works----

 

Yeah bro , I also not found any tool to change this hex values, I also do it manually , but as you said, I find the same options in windows 7 also in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Colors
I use windows 7 this theme http://aaron-a-arts.deviantart.com/a...ATED-317882595



I tried this hex value method in windows 10 but it does not give the desired theme. Especially the white background color in windows explorer , do not change to Grey. If you have any other method please post it in forum.
(For windows 8 I used https://skinpacks.com/adobe-blue-lin...-for-win788-1/ but it also do not work in windows 10.
I think windows should implement this feature natively for windows explorer to change its background.

 

I'm afraid that is currently not possible. This feature has been removed as early as the previews of Windows 8. This would not be possible without some hardcoded hacks. In Windows 8.X its possible because of the complete UXtheme engine, that is yet to get completed in terms of Windows 10. You can compare it to sauriks Cydia and Winterboard. In pre-iOS7 it was possible to change the looks of almost anything in the system, but after iOS 7 got released with the recoded UX library, Winterboard had to be rewritten and till today, its still only possible to change the icons and other small details. Nothing major. Good luck with the theme! Looks amazing!

 

UPDATE: The method below works in general, but the windows theme reverts to the high-contrast theme if you launch Task Manager (Ctrl+Alt+Del) or initiate the sleep/standby mode. Perhaps, someone can solve these problems. The intended theme gets restored after you log off and log in again.


It is possible to set the background color to gray in Windows Explorer and in other programs (Word, Notepad, etc.) without any serious hacking. The method involves only the control panel and editing the registry.

I have 64-bit Windows 10 Home. This method also works for Windows 8.1.

1) Go to Control Panel, select "Personalization" and "Theme" ->
Edit theme -> select the first (leftmost) high-contrast theme at the bottom.
Now all backgrounds turned black and text color yellow. We will fix that in a moment.

Change the desktop wallpaper to your previous settings by selecting the option "Background" in the left panel (perhaps you had a slideshow or whatever).

2) Hold down the Windows Key and press the R key
type regedit
press Enter
Click "OK" when you see a warning

3) Edit the registry at HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Colors

"Window"="170 170 170"
"WindowText"="0 100 0"

(the above colors are gray and dark green, in that order; you can set the text color to some other dark color instead of dark green, but you shouldn't set it to black because some system and Office messages will become invisible against the black background of the high-contrast Windows theme)

4) Edit the registry at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Themes\DefaultColors\HighContrast

"Window"=dword:00999999
"WindowText"=dword:00006400

(the above colors are gray and dark green, in that order, all in hexadecimal format)

5) Reboot. All done.

6) To restore this theme after a sleep or standby period, log off the current user and log in again.

Now you will have a nice gray background color in most program windows such as Word, Notepad, simple webpages, etc. The background is also gray in Windows Explorer. If you try the above method under a standard Windows theme (not a contrast theme), then the background color will be white in Windows Exporer and gray in most other programs such as Word or Notepad (in this case, at step 4 above, you will need to edit the registry folder Standard instead of HighContrast because you are using a Standard theme). You can use black as text color under the standard Windows themes.


THIRD PARTY SOFTWARE:

Do not use third-party software to change the background color in Windows Exporer because these software packages are buggy or make Windows unstable. I tried software applications called WindowBlinds and Xplorer2, which allow you to use various background colors or patterns in Windows Explorer (actually, Xplorer2 is a replacement for Windows Explorer). Both are shareware.

I do not recommend these applications and suggest that you stick with the above solution. The detailed explanation is as follows:

WindowBlinds: Currently, WindowBlinds is not compatible with Windows 10 (August 2015). It seriously messes with Windows system processes and destabilizes Windows 8.1 64-bit (which I used to have). For example, the WindowBlinds executable process is by default set to the highest priority ("real time," same as the "NT Kernel & System" process), which is an extremely risky strategy. My work involves serious multitasking, and with WindowBlinds, my computer crashes every other day (either freezes or throws a blue screen event). It should be noted that I have a pretty powerful PC: 8 GB of RAM, a big SSD system drive, and Intel Core i7-3770 CPU. Under 64-bit Windows 8.1, I have never experienced a system crash either before or after I tried WindowBlinds (well, not never, but once or twice in several years).

Xplorer2: It is advertised as a replacement for Windows Explorer. This option is better than WindowBlinds because it does not affect stability of the operating system. Nonetheless, Xplorer2 crashes every few days (for example, when I launch the Control Panel) and has to be restarted (and the executable process has to be terminated using the Task Manager). This is tolerable but a bit annoying. Another reason I wanted to test Xplorer2 is that the search option in Windows Explorer fails to find files when your search term is inside a file name (not at the beginning). Eventually, I figured out that you need to insert an asterisk before a search term, if you want to search inside file names in Windows Explorer.

 

Thank you Do you any good alternative to explorer with gray background or Can we change its background to gray.

 

No Unfortunately, I could not find anything simple. As mentioned in my post, WindowBlinds and Xplorer2 allow you to use various colors in windows explorer, but they are buggy and I do not recommend them.

What I find satisfactory for myself:

I ignore the bright white color of the windows explorer and usually make its window relatively small. I use the easy hacks described below to create a gray background in other programs such as Notepad and Microsoft Office (Word, Excell, etc.). I reduced the brightness of my monitor to the minimum. Because I work in Word most of my waking ours, I would probably go blind without a gray background in Word.

Here goes:
This solution allows you to permanently set the background color in most programs (Notepad, Word, etc.) to gray and possibly to other colors, EXCEPT for Windows Explorer, where the background will stay white. I am assuming that you are not using a contrast theme of Windows.
1) Hold down the Windows Key and press the R key
type regedit
press Enter
Click "OK" when you see a warning

2) Edit the registry in the folder HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Colors

"Window"="170 170 170"

3) Edit the registry at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Themes\DefaultColors\Standard

"Window"=00999999

(hexadecimal format)
4) Close the registry editor and press Ctrl+Alt+Del to initiate the theme. Close the Task Manager.