Reversibly enable and disable Classic Theme with a simple UI

nice job i like the idea now we need a taskbar.cpl using the win8.1 or old win10 explorer.exe.mui the dialogs are there but i have no idea on how to make it , if you decide to do it add a making of article ...

Suggestion : you can get any explorer.exe.mui from win8 or 8.1 www.pconlife.com/fileinfo/explorer.exe.mui-info/ take its resources and make a classic taskbar as taskbar.cpl cpls are compiled as dll's then you just replace the metroapp with the real thing which is a good idea
another thing that would be cool is to do something Vista had completely wrong they separated all the dialogs from desk.cpl and scattered them so tabbing was no longer possible but you could get them and add back the tabs in vista style which would look awesome to do it easier you need to get the resources with reshacker use some of the reactos 0.3.9 version  of desk.cpl to make it functional (they ruined the newer one) doxygen.reactos.org/dd/d4c/cpl_2desk_2classinst_8c_source.html

As you see www.askvg.com/create-shortcuts-to-themes-desktop-background-screen-saver-display-settings-and-more/ vista have more accurate classic themed things then 7 but win7 is just a continuation of vista and with reactos code to back things up things should be up and running smoothly maybe even better then the real thing it would be nice to not be dependent on metro at all because it is a dying platform that nobody really wanted

Im pretty annoyed with openshell , it refuses to load all of my classicshell skins

Well, I would love to but I have no idea how cpl's and stuff like that works. Do you have any good starting guide or something similar?

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here is a guide www.codeproject.com/Articles/3026/Creating-a-Config-Panel-Applet

then you can reshack this file with reshacker and get the dialogs code explorer.exe.mui.cpl (18.5 KB)

Its a good beginning since so much info about enabling these settings in registry are available and there is always processexplorer that shows what changes when enabling disabling settings directly as a subprocess in rundll32

Then we got the unfinished reactos desk.cpl schemes dont work properly but all the rest does github.com/mirror/reactos/tree/master/reactos/dll/cpl/desk  latest working version with all windows was 0.3.9 before they decided to gimp the os make it crash after install in virtual machines etc 0.3.9 even though an ancient build was easier to mange and many things like the cpls haven't been evolved since then just gimped up somehow that's why reactos taskbar is incredibly buggy
but it is still a good idea to look at it , here is the 0.3.9 source sourceforge.net/projects/reactos/files/ReactOS/0.3.9/   in the latest reactos  you find that many cpls work except tiimedate and desk.cpl possibly a few more

WAIT! If I use Dialog 7 in the file you gave me and map the registry manually, I can basically replicate that Dialog inside a CPL file right?

A: link is dead lol found it on your other thread and it's awesome. It just doesn't detect schemes but i'm sure we will fix that
B: it's sounds really cool to do but i don't see how this can be helpful for my program. i mean it's all cool, but my program now "just works". i'm really just looking for ways to make the utility faster and easier. but i do find this interesting though i just think we should continue this in a seperate thread.

Oh sorry this is the win2k version i should update my post to add it you get the theme schemes included helps a lot drive.google.com/file/d/122Wz40ac5o4YIVkmkwp0TcSVdxnqi5Bn/view?usp=sharing I added it to my megathread , thats where all the cool reversing metro-stuff will end up and people will be able to get back to a real desktop instead of all this fake metrostuff that killed windowsphone .

What schemes do I have to put where?

you see how the schemes are saved in the reg file thats where they are saved/loaded in the appearance bar in desk2k.cpl the vista use the same graphics for it like winxp except more options like fonts and stuff bad thing was they scattered the dialogs they were no longer tabbed it managed to annoy quite a few people but the dialogs are in vista so its probably fixable , all vista dialogs in a beautiful tabbed deskv.cpl would be perfect , then just drop in system32 freplace the metrosetting with great confidence
here is more sourcecode stephanos.io/archives/21 this is opennt might help a bit