diezil Posted December 22, 2007 Share Posted December 22, 2007 Just been browsing around and found this cool little program :thumbsup_anim: DescriptionIn 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.ScreenshotVideohttp://youtube.com/watch?v=bEUPmDVJTgAWhat's new?+ stabilized the thing (less crashes)+ Now changes the icon also when you hover over other startmenu items! + some extra rendering settingsTodo+ 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 cannot get the original icon size since MS programmers did not implement that behaviour (yet). FIXED by Andreas with a workaroundBeware!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.'I personally think dreamscene users might suffer...!'Downloadhttp://mpj.tomaatnet.nl/Ave3dUserPic.zipOr download from here Thanks Again to AndreasV If you experience problems try installing this.USE AT OWN RISK as siad in the original message, but it works fine for me iv even added it to my startup :icon_cool: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tarun Posted December 23, 2007 Share Posted December 23, 2007 Wonder if this works for XP. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NIM Posted December 23, 2007 Share Posted December 23, 2007 Looks cool, but I'm a bit worried with the "use at your own risk" part :sweatingbullets: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diezil Posted December 25, 2007 Author Share Posted December 25, 2007 Looks cool, but I'm a bit worried with the "use at your own risk" part :sweatingbullets:I was a little put off by that at first but decided to try it since I'm still messing with Vista and dont really mind if i need to reinstall it, but if I'm honest I'm quite impressed by the application and have had no problems as of yet, the only thing i noticed was that when i first boot up my machine i have no user pic for a few moments until the program loads in which is to be expected.I dont think its XP compatible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tal Ormanda Posted December 26, 2007 Share Posted December 26, 2007 Let me know if it works >_> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foxxx428 Posted December 26, 2007 Share Posted December 26, 2007 It works, it's just a little slow is all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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