Forcing any type of application to use XP theme

[Shahid_fss]

As a computer programmer, when I first made my software in windows XP environment, they were using windows 98/2000 theme instead of XP theme which make them look awful while having different design than windows. I decided to use windows XP theme and found out that it can be done without any code modification or entering special code.
The method being use to have an XP theme is very simple. We use an XML file for this purpose and it is called a manifest file (its extension should be *.manifest). It contains runtime information about the application. You don’t need to know how to create this XML file because it is some what difficult work. The easy way to gain it is to steal it (Pakistani or Dasi way). To use it in any application that don’t use an XP theme follow these steps;

1- Open the “search” program
2- Put in the search box “*.manifest”
3- Choose “My computer”
4- Click search
Windows will search all manifest files for u. You can use any of them. One of them will be “XPThemes.manifest”. You should better use this.

5- Copy it to the folder where the exe file of program exists
6- Rename it (the name should be same which is of your application. i.e If u want to use it with an application whose exe file’s name is XYZ.exe than you should rename it like this XYZ.exe.manifest)
7- Now run the application

NOTE
1- .Manifest file should be in the same folder were the main exe file is.
2- It will only work with those controls whose display property is “System” and this can be only changed by the programmer who has designed that software.
3- If you will run this application in any other version of windows the application will display the current theme you are using.

Hope u’ll try this. And if u know any trick like this plz let us know. Bye


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