yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] zcink:
Sure sounded easy enough -- didn't say dump rom. I have some software that will take apart an .exe file. If I had the file. Its not there in the windows folder of my device.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] irus:
shell32.exe

i extracted this from the htc wm6 x7500 rom it should be the same but the res might be double cause the x7500 is 640x480 if this does not work point me to where your rom is and i will dump it and post the file :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] vphreeze:
could someone suggest a resource editor to make the changes, apparently Resource Hacker won't get the job done.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] grinminded:
i change mine to green apple. :D

u can change it using resource hacker and search for the file shellres.96.dll, open icon 288 and 289 also u can change ur wait cursor. :D

bout im using wm6.1 rom for wizard

sorry for my bad english.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] bapssystupr3m3:
i used wisbar advance to change my start icon
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] marcelvanblankers:
Could you tell me what the size of the pic must be (16x16?)

how can i extract the dll from windows folder, it says "can't copy, parameter is wrong"

and could you upload some? or your dll?

very great work
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] grinminded:
icon # 288 > 21x16 96dpi

icon # 289 > 16x16 96dpi

sorry guys i forgot to tell u that u need to cook ur rom and replace the original shellres.96.dll

i try to make a cabfile and install it in my device but no luck. :(

sorry for my bad english. :(
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Madremiha:
Hi grinminded

I start in the cooking and i would like to change this icon like that (with mine ;) )

Can you detailled to me how to do it with some pictures?

I really thank you if you can.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Madremiha:
It's again me :) What would you say by 96dPi what is this sort of value? can you post your apple Pictures? the background Must be transparent or white? wIth what software did you create your apple pictures? Wow !! lot of questions! :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tmz:
It would be sweet if some one made a cab. or a app to do this?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Madremiha:
I would like to rectify it's 21x18 for 288.

I'm trying to do it i think i understood
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Madremiha:
I have change the 2 icon by reshacker (288 &289) then i have flash my rom but is it the only things i must to do?(change 288 & 289? not other files?) because the icon has not changed... :(
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Madremiha:
With what program can i extract shell32.exe?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tmz:
There is a cab.file on the #6 post that i think it will help you.

http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=22104
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Madremiha:
I ever use resourcehacker but he can't open .exe but there is an idea at the last post about the flag.2bp file but i don't how to convert .bmp .png .jpeg or .ico file into .2bp files....If someone has an idea?

[EDIT] ok i just have to change the extension from bmp to 2bp i will try to create the rom with this.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Madremiha:
No result with this solution :mad:
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Madremiha:
No new about this tweak?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] l3v5y:
Changing the "shellres.89.dll" is the only way to change the icons.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] haam1978:
i think we should invite Marshall to this thread he has done something for waiting cursor and iam sure it will not be difficult for him to make something also for start icon , maybe someone can give him a pm to bring him here
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tmz:
Bump...Bump...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Aqrab:
up up up
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] :
it is possible, BUT not easy enough to make it working 100%.

especially interesting in NOT square icon # 288 > 21x16 96dpi :S hex cutting or what ...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tmz:
bump..bump..
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] l3v5y:
What exactly do you want?

Just saying "bump..bump.." really doesn't help anyone answer the question, as we have given answers already...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tmz:
If it was a app. That way you could make the start m what ever you want.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Ameet:
pretty cool.. can u post ur apple icon? i'm gonna use it :D its well made ;)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] l3v5y:
There is an app that does this. Wisbar advance! And since it does that well for (almost) everyone, there is very little point in re developing an app...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] helterskelter:
Exactly. And it's so easy to make a theme that only contains a skin for the startbutton it hurts!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Lolento:
Ok, I get that some people don't want to install wisbar or smallmenu due to maybe the added cost or the memory footprint required.

Here is what you need to do to change the start icon. What was already mentioned in this thread should have gotten you half way there... I've only tested this on my WM6.1 Hermes setup.

What you need: (please use search)

1) Marshall WM6 Waitcursor (any one of the many)

2) Total Commander or Resco Explorer

3) MS file signer

4) Reshack for Windows

5) IcoFX for Windows (or any Icon editor but this one is free and handles non-square icons)

What you need to do:

1.) Install Marshall's waitcursor and verify that it is working with soft-reset.

2.) Once you got Marshall's waitcursor working, open up Total Commander or Resco Explorer and go to Windows. Look for the file Shellres.96.dll.XXXX.mui (XXXX is your localization, for US it is 0409). Copy that file to your SD card or My Documents and then copy the file to your desktop.

3.) Open up IcoFX and make two icons in 32bit + Alpha format. One icon in 21x18 pix and the other in 16x16 pix.

4.) Open up Reshack and open the shellres file you copied from your PDA. Goto Icon Group and look for the MS icons. I believe it is the first and the fifth icons down the line. Replace the icons with the ones you made. Save.

5.) Sign the new Shellres file with the MS signer tool.

6.) Use Total Commander or Resco Explorer to copy the new Shellres file to windows, overwriting the old one. Then soft reset.

Be happy with your new start icon without having to install wisbar.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] socrate007:
Thank you!

Thanks man! You rock! :D
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Aqrab:
i tryed to find the MS file signer but :(
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Ather:
search on the forum for a file called " msigner "
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ckpv5:
Thank you

@Lolento

@Ather90

Thank you .... with your guide and info, now I manage to change the start menu icon.... something that I want to do for a long time...:D

Rgds
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Madremiha:
Can you share yours icons files please?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] sala91:
Can someone please change that Windows flag to Windows Vistas orb? And make a .cab of that. Please?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ssvdude:
risk masters

Risky stuff i say
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Madremiha:
In my Elf i don't have this file :

shellres.96.dll.XXXX.mui

I have :

shellres.dll.040C.mui

and another:

shellres.96.dll

[EDIT] Ok i find it in the shellres.96.dll in the icon group it's as Lolento said, the 4609 and 4617 folders.

Or as said in the start of this post the 288 and 289 icon in the folder Icon.

The only way i found to have the shellres.96.dll is to take the file extracted from your rom.

[RE-EDIT]I did it i replace with reshack the 2 icons in shellres.96.dll and i don't have the ugly start button but now i have a little problem: Not start button of nothing, the button Ok is just a square and the signal status is clinking.

Here is the 2 icons i changed and the screens.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Madremiha:
This changes did another thing: when i explore my ppc with Resco or the basic explorer all my icons folders are not a folder but the "oxios memory" icon... I don't know why, i have signed the shellres file with mssigner maybe it's that?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] fouad796:
why we need the Marshall WM6 Waitcursor to change the start menu icon ?

i mean can we do it without this app coz it make my device slow when its starting
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Madremiha:
@Lolento

When you says "Marshall WM6 Waitcursor (any one of the many)" you 're talking about MWC2, right?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mr_deimos:
No, you need marshall waitcursor skin (like this one), not MWC or MWC 2. And that's because the waitcursor skin is just a shellres.96.dll.xxx.mui file with waitcursor animation replaced with reshacker. So the cursor is still drawn by the OS in the same way as originally.

And MWC/MWC2 is a program that takes over drawing the wait cursor, so it might sometimes be slow.

But these two are completely different things :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Agamemmnon:
Here is the Downloadlink for msigner

http://rapidshare.com/files/31141050/msigner.rar
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Agamemmnon:
I make it with the instructions of lolento and it has worked wonderfully, only the graphical part i must make better and clearer:)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] nir36:
why? why answer here? why? is there not a dedicated thread for these type of things? did we not go thru this 10 billion billion times? why?!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ReYCangri:
hey agamemmnon, is there any way you can upload a cab file to make it look like that, because it's awsome, thanks!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Madremiha:
I did it again with the Tuto "at the letter"

I have install the skin of the wait cursor

Extract the shellres.96.dll.040C.mui and change the icons and sign it.

And always the same screen... Can you share your icons and your shellres file please :o
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] variosteph:
thank you!

thank you, i´m so happy right now!

because that was something that i wanted to do such a long time!:) totalcomander doesn´t work to copy the file back but resco explorer did the job!

steph
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Madremiha:
Great! can you post your icôns please , i don't know what to do my buttons are as the scréen i post in the previous page :'(
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] variosteph:
icons

in reshacker:

action-replace icon

steph
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ai6908:
It works like a charm! Lolento, thanks for the steps, and all other who shared their respective icons! You folks are awesome:D
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] KrAId:
Please Help!!

That looks awesome!

I have a Diamond(wm6.1&VGA) and i think the file i have to change is >shellres.192.dll<.

I extracted the file with the tool Rom_Extractor direct in the ppc - changed the icon with PE Explorer - signed it and copy it back to \windows with Resco Explorer.

My Problem is that i have now NO "Start-Button" and some icons are mixed e.g. the files in (resco)explorer.

I have tried it without changing the Flag-Icon -it´s the same. Maybe the "Rom_Extractor" extracted it wrong? -in the diamond the shellres.192.dll is 863kb and extracted it is 864kb!?

Hope you can help!

THX, vicky.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] l3v5y:
shellres.192.dll is the correct file for a 192DPI screen.

I'd personally use ResHacker.exe for changing the icon. Make sure you replace the icon, and keep it the correct number

the 1KB difference will be because WM and Windows XP/Vista report file sizes differently. Don't worry about that!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] KrAId:
Please Help!

Hi

thank you for the quick answer!

-but it also didn´t work with reshacker.

Same Problem: no Start-Button, no "Close-X" and the mixed File-Icons.

You can see my reshacker screen on the pic -the 292 isthe flag in 41x36 and the 293 is the flag in 32x32 -i changed both with the same size and named the ico´s 292&293. Is it ok?

THX,vicky.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Lolento:
hey,

sorry i dont have the hires device you're using but it looks like you're replacing the resource in the bitmap group. You should replace the resource in the Icon group.

You should extract the orginal icon first and then modify it in Icofx so you'll have the same size icon.

Hope this helps...but like I said, I dont have the same dll file youre playing with
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] dens78:
i find picture file in my rom, flag.2bp. what will be happend if i change that picture with another picture with same name, format and dimension. are that will change the start icon?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] variosteph:
see lolento´s wonderfull post on page 4:

Ok, I get that some people don't want to install wisbar or smallmenu due to maybe the added cost or the memory footprint required.

Here is what you need to do to change the start icon. What was already mentioned in this thread should have gotten you half way there... I've only tested this on my WM6.1 Hermes setup.

What you need: (please use search)

1) Marshall WM6 Waitcursor (any one of the many)

2) Total Commander or Resco Explorer

3) MS file signer

4) Reshack for Windows

5) IcoFX for Windows (or any Icon editor but this one is free and handles non-square icons)

What you need to do:

1.) Install Marshall's waitcursor and verify that it is working with soft-reset.

2.) Once you got Marshall's waitcursor working, open up Total Commander or Resco Explorer and go to Windows. Look for the file Shellres.96.dll.XXXX.mui (XXXX is your localization, for US it is 0409). Copy that file to your SD card or My Documents and then copy the file to your desktop.

3.) Open up IcoFX and make two icons in 32bit + Alpha format. One icon in 21x18 pix and the other in 16x16 pix.

4.) Open up Reshack and open the shellres file you copied from your PDA. Goto Icon Group and look for the MS icons. I believe it is the first and the fifth icons down the line. Replace the icons with the ones you made. Save.

5.) Sign the new Shellres file with the MS signer tool.

6.) Use Total Commander or Resco Explorer to copy the new Shellres file to windows, overwriting the old one. Then soft reset.

Be happy with your new start icon without having to install wisbar.

Thanks to LORENTO!

steph
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] dens78:
ok, i'm understand that. i think maybe that can become simple way, but no. thanks bro.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] darebak666:
great, lolento thanks!! :rolleyes:
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] kendzlic:
Does anyone have a Marshall WM6 Waitcursor they can post up for download as the website looks to be under construction? Thanks
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] egzthunder1:
just so you know, you are about to get flamed...

Use the "search" function of the forum and you will find it

Edit: I'm feeling generous today... here's the link to Marshall's website

http://www.marshallskins.ilbello.com/php5/htdocs/showCategory.php?id=34
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] kendzlic:
Thanks but that is the link I tried already. I was wanting to know if anyone had the file for download as that website is "under construction, coming soon".
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] egzthunder1:
No, it isn't!

In fact, here click on this:

http://www.marshallskins.ilbello.com/php5/htdocs/downloads.php

It isn't down, under construction, or anything like that...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] KrAId:
Please Help!

Hi Guys!

thank you lorento -i think i changed the icons!:confused:

and the Marshall WM6 Waitcursor only changed the shellres.dll not the 192.dll???

can you/someone please do it with my files? (it´s the last thing that i loved to edit!:()

-shellres.192.dll and the two .ico´s are in the zip.

THANK YOU, vicky.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] SurfHost:
Here you go, signed. Just copy it back with Resco Explorer.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] kendzlic:
Tried another computer, works now. Appreciate it man.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Madremiha:
Hi i have the same problem on my Touch because i have modified the wrong shellres file and now the only solution is hard reset .In fact when you install a wait cursor skin that create a new shellres file and it's this file you must modify ;)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] KrAId:
Hi Madremiha,

yes, but there is no wait cursor skin for the shellres.192.dll! -by the way, i think the important thing is that the wait cursor skin.cab installs 2 reg-keys(are they needed)!?

-and you don´t need to do a hard reset! -just rename the modified file and make a SR.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] N3xt2N0N3:
there is...look for it using your pc make sure u can view hidden files
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mr_deimos:
That's right, you can remove the modified shellres even without using a installer(or hard reset) - just go to /windows with total commander/resco explorer/whatever, reneme your modified shellres to something else (preferably something easy to find, like _shellres.old), do a soft reset, and surprise - the old shellres is back, and you can delete the modified (and renamed) one :)

And these reg keys are some certificates. But when signing the file with msigner, you don't seem to need them. At least everything works without these keys for me (i didn't install the wait cursor skin CAB, just extracted dll file from it and copied it to /windows manually).

The important stuff is in installation mortscript for multilanguage version. It reads your language code and enables mui support.

MUI files are usually used for program translations, and it works like this:

Each OS language has a code (for example English is 0409). If a file named <filename>.dll.xxxx.mui is found with xxxx code matching current OS language, it will be used over the default <filename>.dll

Marshall Wait Cursor skin on a English OS creates a shellres.96.dll.0409.mui file, and OS will use it instead of shellres.96.dll. The cool thing about this solution is that in case this custom mui file is corrupt (like not signed, or otherwise not usable), the system will use the default shellres.96.dll instead. So worst-case scenario is that you'll have default icons/start logo. But you'll never be left with your shell graphics messed up.

So if you want to play around with hacking the shellres, you'll be best off finding your OS locale, enabling MUI support (usually it's on) and naming your file shelres.96.dll.<locale code here>.mui

You can use the mortscript i attached to enable mui support and determine proper name for your shellres file (it assumes base name is shellres.96.dll, so you might need to substitute the 96 with your system value in case of non-qvga resolution). It's actually a slightly modified marshall cursor skin install script, so all credit for it goes to Marshall :)

Of course you'll still need to do a soft reset after placing the shellres.96.dll.xxxx.mui in you /windows dir.

warning: you'll be unable to overwrite or remove this mui file once it's used. You'll have to rename it (preferably changing not just the name, but also the extension as described in the beginning of the post) and soft reset. After that the renamed file will be and you'll be able to delete it.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] dens78:
after start icon changed, is safe to uninstal marshal wait cursor?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mr_deimos:
Nope. Both the cursor and start menu icon are in the same resource file shellres.96.dll (getting this file is the only reason installation of waitcursor skin is recommended - in most cases it can't be simply copied from your device since it's cooked into ROM). If you remove one, you'll lose the other as well. But don't worry - the waitcursor skin doesn't need any more RAM as the default WinMobile cursor so you don't to uninstall it. Actually, from this point you can safely customize your device further by replacing the wait cursor frames with your own :) But if you want to do that, i'd recommend trying the new MWC2 (it can be installed besides the waitcursor skin without any problems since it uses different ways to for drawing the cursor and disables the default WM cursor - eighter the original one or the one from waitcursor skin).
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Madremiha:
Hi thanks for the tips; i have removed the shellres file and SR my system is normal now :)

I retry to install a marshall wait cursor skin and SR the cursor is ok

I replace my file modified and SR but that don't works and the marshal wait cursor isn't loaded :(

I understand nothing

If someone post his shellres.96.dll.***C.mui and if i rename it do you think that will works?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mr_deimos:
Doesn't hurt to try, does it?

I've attached mine - custom start logo and waitcursor. Just make sure to change the 0409 (meaning English ROM) to your own locale - try running the script i posted earlier to find it.

As for your own file - are you sure it got signed properly? Did you check the msigner log file? The popup informing that signing is complete doesn't mean it was succesful. Only if there's a line "the file is signed but not timestamped" in the log, all wen fine. If not, the file isn't signed.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Madremiha:
Thank you very much !!! I'm so happy because IT'S WORKING now !!! Your icons and cursor looks very good.I had lot of problems with uninstall/réinstall of the MWCSkin and maybe my file was not good too but i had the pop up you said after signed...

So if someone has other shellres file to share, no problem, :D do it. Thanks again a lot Mr deimos and Kraid !!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mr_deimos:
I see a small misunderstanding here - the popup does not mean the signing was successful. It just means that the process is finished. To check the outcome, see the text file with the same name and in the same dir as the file you signed. Recently i'm having some problems with adding signatures. It used to work before, but now it doesn't. I get an error :

Error: Unable to open a CSP provider with the correct private key
Error: Signing Failed. Result = 80092006, (-2146885626)

I didn't investigate it yet, just used another computer for the job :P If you get an error as well, you might want to try on another machie.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Madremiha:
It's okay now !!! I had the pop up "successful" and the text file said "Warning: This file is signed, but not timestamped. Succeeded"

I put in windows SR and it's working but i must to modify a few my icon :o.

But i can't uninstall completely marshall wait cursor skin so i erase the key in registry and in a other folder, i just keep the M&M folder in windows with the Mortscript and all is okay.

Now i will try to do others Start Menu Icons and share it so if someone has ones ;)

I have a question; why we must to change 2 icons and why 21x18 and 16x16 ?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Madremiha:
So, i tried to replace only the icon 21x18 and it's working so i don't know where the 16x16 icon is comes from...

[EDIT] With which program do you create yours icon because after create my icon with gimp it's saved just in 18x18 and not in 21x18... :( (compatible vista)

[REEDIT]It's okay i did it with xnview and gimp i'll post the shellres file later ;)