The Windows XP Evil Edition Theme: A work in Progress

Every good theme needs a desktop, And heres ours:

What do you see all the time other than your desktop? Your cursor of course! Here they are:

• The normal cursor
• The Working in background cursor
• The Busy cursor
• The link select cursor
• original files avaliable here
• Use control panel>mouse>pointers tab>browse to select
• right click, save file as, dir. is c:\windows\cursors or c:\winnt\cursors


• Red Anarchy Symbol For use as your icon (change in control panels>user accounts)


• The Font is kind of a bitch to deal with
  1. Unzip it to c:\windows\fonts or c:\winnt\fonts depending on your OS
  2. Control Panel>display>appearance>advanced
  3. From here, change Active title bar, icon, inactive title bar, menu, message box, Palette title, selected items, and tooltip to Diablo. You may want to increase the size of the font from 8, as the Diablo font is a little smaller than system default.
  4. NOTE: The font appears all caps, but keystrokes are registered properly. Ex. if you pressed "n" it will appear as "N", but it will actually mean "n".


• Changing the "Start" menu

This is kind of difficult (not as difficult as the original instructions make it out to be) and should only be attempted by people who are nerds, or are friends with nerds
NOTE: This section assumes you are using XP, as this is the system it was first successfully hacked on by theantiblog
PLEASE READ/UNDERSTAND ALL INSTRUCTIONS BEFORE ATTEMPTING


1. Download reshacker.
2. After decompressing to a sutiable folder, go my computer>c:>documents and settings>username>sendto (turn hidden folders on if nessicary) add a shortcut to reshacker to the sendto folder (right click/drag)
3. Now search your windows folder for explorer. Searching explorer.exe will not return the needed results, so search explorer only.
4. Find the prefetch (extention is .pf) right click>open containing folder to make sure you have the right one (should be in prefetch) and delete it.
5. ok, now right click on the other explorers (explorer.exe should be 3 or so) and go sendto>shortcut to reshacker. Open all of them
6. Go to string table>37>1033 (its the only one there)
7. Change the text from start to whatever you want
8. DO NOT CHANGE ANY TEXT OTHER THAN START
9. DO NOT REMOVE THE QUOTES

Here is an example of what the text should look like:

STRINGTABLE
LANGUAGE LANG_ENGLISH, SUBLANG_ENGLISH_US
{
578, 	"Fuck You"
579, 	"There was an internal error and one of the windows you were using has been closed."
580, 	"Restrictions"
581, 	"This operation has been cancelled due to restrictions in effect on this computer. Please contact your system administrator."
590, 	"Hiding your inactive notification icons..."
591, 	"To see the hidden icons, click this button."
}

10. after changing the text as shown, click compile script, and then save. One will most likely not save, you must first close the explorer.exe process using task manager
11. Making sure you deleted the prefetch first, hit ctrl+alt+delete and go to the process tab
12. Find the explorer.exe process, right click on it, and click end process. Say yes at the dialog
13. explorer (windows, icons, start menu) will disapear. This is normal.
14. click on file (in task manager) and go to "start new process (run)" type explorer.exe at the prompt
15. The "start" text should be replaced by whatever you changed it to. If it isn't or your computer crashes, refer to these directions again (assumedly on a different computer)




These directions are a somewhat cleaner adaptation of other directions, found here. Credit for all actual technical knowhow goes to the writer of the original directions

Alternate Directions:

1. Complete directions 1-2. Find any version of explorer (preferably the one residing in the windows directory), right click on it, and hit "send to shortcut to reshacker.exe"
2. Go to stringtable 37, and edit the data as shown in the example. You may change "fuck You" to anything you like, provided you do not remove the quotes.
3. Click Compile script, then go file>save as. Save the file as "evilexplorer.exe"
4. Now go to your start menu, click run and type "regedit.exe". Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\ SOFTWARE\ Microsoft\ Windows NT\ CurrentVersion\ Winlogon \ Shell by clicking the plus signs next to the folders of the correct name. When you reach the winlogon folder, click on the folder itself, and find the "shell" string. Double click on "shell".
5. A dialog box will appear, with alterable text in the "value data" box. This will read "explorer.exe" change this to "evilexplorer.exe" and click ok.
6. After this it is a simple matter of restarting your computer. When windows boots, it will check the registry, and load "evilexplorer.exe" instead of "explorer.exe"

Other stuff

• you can also change the description of your default browser, and email applications by editing the text in stringtable 440.
• By CAREFULLY messing around with other string tables, you can find other things to customize.

Additional Notes:

• A temporary effect can be achieved by following the first 3 steps of the alternate directions. Then, use taksmanager to end the explorer.exe process, and then run "evilexplorer.exe" This will cause windows to temporarily load the evil version of explorer, changing your start menu until your next reboot. (This temporary method has only been successfully tested on XP)

Extra Stuff

• You can use res edit to change certain menus, by editing the "String Table" section. Menus for programs that run in the systray are an example. Simply click sendto>reshacker>string table and look for familiar stuff.



• More comming later