[How To] Change the Homegroup Background

[Mr GRiM]

This tutorial will show you how to change the Home Page background on your custom theme.

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Full credits for this go to Panda X and 3am on the Style Builder Forums [Only registered and activated users can see links. ]

This edit needs to be done in your themes shellstyle.dll (the one in the shell folder that is in your themes folder)

You will need a resource hacker to open the shellstyle.dll then you will have to extract the UI file to your desktop then open the UI file using Notepad++

Search for <if class="bp_pane"> and that will show you the gradients:

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background = "themeable(gradient(argb(229,236,244,255), argb(252,252,252,255), argb(247,249,253,255), 4), window)"

Now all you need to do is change all of the argb colours to match your theme, you can do it as a gradient or just make all of the colours the same to make it a solid colour.

To find the corect rgb colour just open your theme in WSB and find the colour you set for the explorer background in Explorer & Shell > Explorer > Items View > ItemsView > FillColor

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So for my Zero-G for example will look like this

background = "themeable(gradient(argb(229,63,66,70), argb(252,63,66,70), argb(247,63,66,70), 4), window)"

Now once you have edited the UI file you need to save it and then add it back into the shellstyle.dll and save.

And the end result

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[faizalotai]

thanks for the tutorial Mark..

[NAHOM]

Sounds very interesting and good. I will try it thank you bud

[Mr.CLay]

Hello Mr. Grim Can i Change the Background of my MS office 2010 in default? bcoz my Ms office background is black?.

[Mr GRiM]

Please make your own thread or post in the relevant thread or forum, this is a tutorial for theme builders, not a place to ask questions on unrelated subjects.

To change the background in Office you need to either change the page colour in the application or change the window color in the advanced appearance settings in the color personalization menu.