deporitazz
10 months ago
this video is what i used as a starting point when i first got back into modding back in 2024 https://youtu.be/A-KA8RDZ-l4 a pretty good tutorial aside from explorer stuff for that I'd use these toolbars https://winclassic.net/thread/2045/ephemeralviolettes-classicexplorer-classic-throbber-extensio?page=8 as well as classic shell explorer which i think is covered in the video
deporitazz
10 months ago
for icons and various other things I'd use this https://get-ntmu.github.io/ a brand new program which aims to replace the outdated 7tsp program doesn't have the risk of bricking your system anymore and can do much much more than what 7tsp could do every pack is on the website
deporitazz
10 months ago
this is what i use as a taskbar and start menu replacement https://github.com/kfh83/ExplorerEx it's the real xp explorer built from the server 2003 source code but it requires special themes found here: https://file.garden/Zc5EyP0NHTb1qSrk/xptheme.zip and for your you restore control panel which can be done using this: https://winclassic.net/thread/1779/restoring-control-panel-applets-links
deporitazz
10 months ago
these reg keys are also needed for explorerex https://file.garden/Zc5EyP0NHTb1qSrk/Regs.zip
deporitazz
10 months ago
i use secureuxtheme and luna10 normally and then i use a few windhawk mods for classic theme + something called explorerex
yet but it's what you can expect to see when it's up. I scaled back the spectacle a lot and I'm actually using html 4.01 standards as well as JavaScript 1.2 and css 2 standards really going in for that early 2000s feel
i LOVE this... i really want to make a section of my site that looks more 2002-esque than 2007 lol. what font did you use?
it's just verdana and arial without font smoothing enabled cause it's windows xp