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Vista: how do you remove this menu?

  • 20-07-2007 4:52am
    #1
    CyberGhost
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,554 ✭✭✭


    Does anyone know how to remove that annoying Vista Explorer menu where it says "Organize, Views, Properties,...."?
    windowsclassicbeta2xh5.th.jpg


    This guy did it somehow...
    009xt9.th.jpg


Comments

  • #2
    8T8
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,757 ✭✭✭8T8


    That looks like a photoshop mock up for a skin to me that or he is running Windows XP using a custom skin (via Windowblinds) & not Windows Vista.

    What you can do is go into control panel\personalization\theme & select Windows Classic from the list.

    Now click in explorer on the organize button and then on folder and search options and on the first tab tick the box for "Use Windows Classic Folders" this wont get rid of the tasks bar but it will neutralize it's colour band so it blends into the generic gray of the Windows classic look.

    As for removing it not sure the only certain way I know of would be to get a copy of Windowsblinds and find a Windows 2K/XP classic skin on Wincustomize & apply skin on Vista.


  • #3
    matt-dublin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,468 ✭✭✭matt-dublin


    yeah that skin is windowblinds skin for xp...

    its a vista theme


  • #4
    CyberGhost
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,554 ✭✭✭CyberGhost


    Thanks guys!

    I wonder who was the genious that suggested to make that bar unremovable?


  • #5
    matt-dublin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,468 ✭✭✭matt-dublin


    i would say you probably can remove it through the registry but the fact that your only on a beta 2 eval copy i wouldn't worry too much about it...

    Its been upgraded a little in the full release so it becomes a little more handy.


  • #6
    ethernet
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,568 ✭✭✭ethernet


    matt-dublin wrote:
    i would say you probably can remove it through the registry but the fact that your only on a beta 2 eval copy i wouldn't worry too much about it...

    Its been upgraded a little in the full release so it becomes a little more handy.
    True. All betas will be fully expired next month anyway so you won't have to look at it for much longer. It's less noticeable when you use the default theme.


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  • #7
    subway
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,131 ✭✭✭subway


    thats not windows blinds or a theme on xp.
    only vista can make the interactive part of the window see through.
    window blinds just does the borders.

    see here:
    http://www.crystalxp.net/news/img/35.jpg


  • #8
    8T8
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,757 ✭✭✭8T8


    It's rather unlikely you could remove it through the registry as the Vista UI uses a more advanced version of the msstyle format the basis for Luna the XP theme but so far all I've heard is that through some messy hacking you can bend Aero to your will but it is beyond general uses for the time being.

    Not only that but updates from Windows Update will undo any modifications you make if the files are being patched to correct bug/security vulnerability etc.


  • #9
    CyberGhost
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,554 ✭✭✭CyberGhost


    matt-dublin wrote:
    i would say you probably can remove it through the registry but the fact that your only on a beta 2 eval copy i wouldn't worry too much about it...

    Its been upgraded a little in the full release so it becomes a little more handy.

    That's not my screenshot, I googled both.

    But from what I heard it's the same for the full version.


  • #10
    mukki
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,669 ✭✭✭mukki


    subway wrote:
    thats not windows blinds or a theme on xp.
    only vista can make the interactive part of the window see through.
    window blinds just does the borders.

    see here:
    http://www.crystalxp.net/news/img/35.jpg


    he is running styleXP you can see the icon on his systray (the six bubbles in a circle), that allows transparent windows, but tis buggy as hell, so they will come and go


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