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 4/10/2007 12:03 AM
 
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 Modified By Vishal Gupta on 8/19/2007 10:41:29 AM

Guys,
Here is an interesting news. As we see lots of interesting new features in Vista, like Flip 3D, Aero theme, etc. But the User pic in Top of Start menu is similar to XP one and also its a static one. So here is the news.
Andreas V at AeroXperience has made a little application, which runs in background and replaces the original User pic in Start menu with a rotating 3D User pic. It looks awesome. I hv checked it in my Vista.
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http://mpj.tomaatnet.nl/Ave3dUserPic.zip





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 Modified By defender on 4/10/2007 1:25:40 AM

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 4/10/2007 12:05 PM
 
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Really interesting tutorial!!!!!!
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 4/10/2007 2:39 PM
 
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I'm glad that u liked it. Its really gr8, I'm using it and it looks awesome.
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Yes it is really awesome.
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 5/1/2007 2:39 PM
 
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hey, it didnt work on my vista ultimate ? tried twise, on both oczns xplorer stopped working and rebooted. with the picture disappering.
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 Modified By Manan on 5/26/2007 6:03:16 PM
interesting app another way to show off

@anand works in my ultimate

also doing this disables all othe icons tht appear when u take ur cursoor on them

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 5/27/2007 12:13 AM
 
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^^ Indeed.
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 5/27/2007 12:52 PM
 
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cool ....thnx
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 6/24/2007 4:26 PM
 
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Really awesome vishal , thnx

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 6/24/2007 9:25 PM
 
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^^ welcome.

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 6/25/2007 2:07 PM
 
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SImply stunning .. Keep up Mr. Vista

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thx..vishal!
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 7/13/2007 4:19 PM
 
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My pleasure.

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 7/14/2007 11:39 PM
 
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the hack is noy working in ultimate... its like windows explorer has stopped working....
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 7/14/2007 11:41 PM
 
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typing mistake... i meant ... *** not working ***
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 7/15/2007 12:48 AM
 
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^^ Its working here in my Vista Ultimate.

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 7/16/2007 12:46 AM
 
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dont know... why the error ... "windows explore has stopped working" coming up every time... if sum1 could figure out the errror do lemme know.
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Ave's 3D UserPic Version 2 (update)
longhorn style getting closer

Description
In the old longhorn 4xxx days, the startmenu user picture was more animated as it was today. Today, we get a cheap alpha-fading effect when you hover over an item: the user picture simply blends with the icon for a while.
Back in the days, the user picture was actually rotating when you had the start menu opened. This application tries to achieve that effect.

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Video
http://mpj.tomaatnet.nl/clip0001.avi

What's new?
+ stabilized the thing (less crashes)

+ Now changes the icon also when you hover over other startmenu items! (took me a morning of windbg'ing)
+ some extra rendering settings

Todo
+ Cooler and more longhorn-esque animation DONE thx to bryant
+ Add support for the browse-pane (the pane you get when you start search-typing)

Known problems
+ some icons render with a smaller size. This is a limitation of the system and in my opinion a "bug". IImageList2::GetOriginalSize returns E_NOTIMPL, which means I cannot get the original icon size since MS programmers did not implement that behaviour (yet). FIXED with a workaround

Beware!
This application injects code into explorer.exe, hooks into the startmenu windows and also uses internal data-structures which may result in extra crashes. Therefore, usage is on own risk.

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http://mpj.tomaatnet.nl/Ave3dUserPic.zip

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