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AERO THEORY RC-2 (Release candidate 2)

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Author: Allen W. (aka downtheoRy)
Site: [link]
Site 2: [link] (W.I.P.)
Last Update: 8:50 AM 3/29/2008

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UPDATED CHANGES:

Changed the opacity of the lines surrounding the taskbar. Had to tone them down a bit.
They were waaaayyy too prominent even for my taste. Hopefully I nailed the perfect balance this time.

INCLUDED IN THIS ARCHIVE:

27 desktop wallpapers - As stated before these are not my wallpapers.
And if the actual artists / authors want me to remove them from this release
I will do so without hesitation. Otherwise, I can just give proper credits.
As soon as I find out who did what.

Service Pack 1 Vista

NOTES:

Make sure to patch your uxtheme.dll files with the included patched files in order
to use Aero Theory RC-2. Otherwise you will encounter problems trying to use it.

And concerning using the wallpapers.
Pick the one you would like to use out of the "walls" folder in the Project Aero Theory directory.
Then rename it to "wallpaper" and then re-apply the theme and voila!

Hope that everyone enjoys this release of Aero Theory, there will be more!

HOW TO PATCH YOUR VISTA SP1 UXTHEME FILES:

1. Login as a user with Administrative privileges -or- have Administrative credentials ready (check under the keyboard for a slip of paper).
2. Navigate to %systemroot%\System32
3. Right-click uxtheme.dll and click properties.
4. Take ownership of the file and close dialogs.
5. Repeat steps 3 and 4 for themeui.dll and shsvcs.dll
6. Right-click uxtheme.dll and click properties.
7. Give yourself (or group) Full Control permissions and close dialogs.
8. Repeat steps 6 and 7 for themeui.dll and shsvcs.dll.
9. Rename uxtheme.dll to uxtheme.old.
10. Rename themeui.dll to themeui.old.
11. Rename shsvcs.dll to shsvcs.old.
12. Copy patched files into %systemroot%\System32
13. Reboot (yes, this is really required)
14. Enjoy!

Creds for this: [link]

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BUGS:

The only bug that I know of through my own personal testing is the start menu
"All Programs" button having a white outline around it.
That kind of ruins the look I was going for on the start menu, but as soon as I figure out
how to fix it, I`ll update this release with the fixed menu.

I aplogize for any inconveniences.


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CREDITS:


THANKS TO:

Torched7 for letting me use his awesome shell style "Radiation Shell v2"
[link]

InvaderJohn for letting me use his modified STREAM image
[link]

Awesome work everyone!

And to everyone who has helped me get this far.