Hi !

When i have Win98 and a util like Tweak IT you can enable Plus Icons (not themes) (the Icons on Desktop and Folder Icons become better looking (but same sort of Icon).

When i upgrade Win98 to 2000 this option is enabled in Win2k too.

When i have a clean Win2k installation the option is not enabled (Tweak it does not run in Win2k)

Now the Question: How can i enable this Option in Win2k ?!?!

Thanks Snoop

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win2k build 2195
ASUS P2B
bios revision 1.12
2 x 4 GB, 1 x 18 GB DDYS
128 ram
TNT2 Maxi Game Xentor 16
Adaptec 29160
SB Live Value
Realtek ethernet PCI
Teles ISDN 16.3

Right click the desktop, select properties, effects, then check show icons sing all possible colors

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ASUS P2B-F (BIOS 1012)
128 MB PC 100 SDRam
Diamond Viper 770 32Mb TNT2 (Det. 5.16)
Quantum Fireball CR 8.4Gb HDD
Tekram DC-310 SCSI Adapter
Panasonic CW-7502 SCSI 8x4 CD-R
Mitsubishi Diamond Data 32x IDE CD Rom
Creative Sound Blaster PCI 64 (ES 1370)
Logitech Wingman Extreme Digital 3D USB
Epson Stylus Color 400
Dynalink V1456VQE-R External 56k V.90
Daewoo 710b 17"
Windows 2000 2195.1
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Thanx ... that was not the option i mean ... the icons look a little better. But not so how i mean it.
The Desktop Icon becomes like 3D or so .. don´t know how the discribe it. But it most be a registry entry or so ...

c ya Snoop

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win2k build 2195
ASUS P2B
bios revision 1.12
2 x 4 GB, 1 x 18 GB DDYS
128 ram
TNT2 Maxi Game Xentor 16
Adaptec 29160
SB Live Value
Realtek ethernet PCI
Teles ISDN 16.3

Go to the "Effects" tab of the Display Properties dialog. Click on an icon across the top, then click "Change Icon"...

or you can install tweakui for win2k ..the w9x version obviously works also

There is a W2K TweakUI avalible at http:\\www.tweakfiles.com (sorry but the site was down when posting this and I could give you the exact download URL) , but beware! apparently it runs out at a random date!! eeeek@MS.

Cheers!

Just found out that TwaekUI for W2K is only a pre release of the util and runs out in August.

I think what you mean with the Plus Icons is the standard icons on the desktop are replaced with some funky smoother 3D looking ones. This happens because the default icons used in win 98 are contained in Shell32.dll and many utilities including the plus pack added a new dll called cool.dll and changes the icons so that they come from there instead of shell32. It also requires that you have enough colours and show icons in all available colours turned on

There will be new MS TweakIT soon just hang on.

There is a version of Tweakui without time limit. Saw that on the first page:

TweakUI (non expire version) Posted Tuesday, September 12, 2000
John Savill of Windows 2000 FAQ has posted a non expire version of TweakUI.
http://www.windows2000faq.com/download/tweakui2k.zip