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Re:Remembering Windows 3.1 themes and user empowerment by nitrogen on Friday January 22, 2021 @01:38PM (#25874610)
the ability to remove someone else's brand from my computer and replace it with my own.

In Windows 2000 and earlier, before system file protection, it was possible to use a resource editor and/or a specially crafted BMP file to change system icons, boot animations, start menu imagery, login screen, etc. With a hex editor you could change any UI text, too. I had a heavily customized W2K alongside my heavily customized Linux (even started working on my own graphical boot animations and graphical login for the text console as part of a media-focused distro project I had joined).

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Re:Remembering Windows 3.1 themes and user empowerment by fl0wenol on Friday January 22, 2021 @05:10PM (#25876920)
I remember doing the same for Windows 2003. Got a little more difficult with the theme engine and having to use cmd shells running as SYSTEM but the end results were so satisfying. Sigh
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