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Win2k has 16-bit colour in the tray icons. You can enable 32-bit colour if you hex the explorer.exe. I've used this program before: https://web.archive.org/we
by KindOne 5y ago
Win2k has 16-bit colour in the tray icons. You can enable 32-bit colour if you hex the explorer.exe.
I've used this program before:
https://web.archive.org/web/20120824125326/http://www.r1ch.net/stuff/win2000traypatch/ https://web.archive.org/web/20120824125326/http://www.r1ch.n...
Note: It will timeout when it tries to download the database.
If you want to manually patch it yourself, open explorer.exe in a hex editor and edit this:
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Original: 57 6A 2C 6A 40 C7 44 24 18 01 00
Modified: 57 6A 2C 6A 40 C7 44 24 18 19 00
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Original explorer.exe MD5: 59cf2b7dced9111f48f51b4b570e672d
Modified explorer.exe MD5: 9ac937ca2217cf5a9b71cd6e9014f0e7
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Windows will overwrite your changes since it has file protections. You can fix that via:
http://smallvoid.com/article/winnt-wfp.html http://smallvoid.com/article/winnt-wfp.html
If you are curious as to what this changes, you can look at this file in the leaked Win2k source code:
private/shell/explorer/traynot.c line 991