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BoS 1.1 - Skinnable, customizable desktop replacement - now with AOL Instant Messaging |
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| Submitted on: 6/1/2000 9:05:59 PM
By: Brian
Level: Advanced
User Rating:
By 16 Users
Compatibility:VB 5.0, VB 6.0
Users have accessed this code 10764 times.
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| | | BoS is a complete desktop replacement. It replaces your desktop icons, taskbar, system tray, and start menu with customizable, translucent versions. BoS also has AOL Instant Messaging built in, and a lot more. BoS inculdes four skins: BoS Standard, Green Shades, Red Shades, and BMac. Additional skins can be downloaded with the integrated skin downloader! *** Note: BoS is for Windows 98 and Windows 2000 only. Be sure to put Alphablending.dll in your \windows\system directory. Alphablending.dll will not register with rcreg32 ***
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6/2/2000 12:16:44 AM:Bryan
This code is great...
But there is
more room for improvement.
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6/2/2000 5:47:23 PM:WILKSEY
Hey, Great Work, Could U Please Email
me, I Need to ask an important
question, it's a bit too long to write
here. Thanx
-Wilksey-
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6/3/2000 10:03:41 AM:Danny Moss
This fu***ng code is the blooody best.
keep the good work up. Also i need help
on my Project. Please Mail me
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6/3/2000 9:53:44 PM:!nnovation Software
oh, never mind. i didnt edit that BAS,
sorry:-)
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6/6/2000 1:33:11 PM:Brian
You can't select "VB6 Only" on Planet
Source Code.
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6/6/2000 6:47:05 PM:BS
If you want to make it the shell on
windows 2000, change explorer.exe in
the registry
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6/6/2000 6:49:22 PM:BS
The key to change is
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Microsoft/Wi
ndows NT/Current Version/Winlogon
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6/9/2000 5:28:10 PM:WÏ©kÊÐ_WΣ£ÿ
It is new and a little better but it is
far from complete it still has alot of
bugs. But I like it. I was wondering if
you could send me the source code for
the installer so I can make my own
thanx.
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6/13/2000 7:47:23 AM:Dane Jones
I was wondering about the origin of the
Alphablending.dll, were did you get it?
did you write it? Is it a C++ compiled
DLL? Were can I get further information
on it? Can I freely distribute it with
my own applications?
Why do I get
these errors:
Run-time error
'48':
File not found:
Alphableeding.dll
&
LoadLibrary("C:\
Windows\System\AlphaB~1.dll")Failed.
Ge
tLastError returns 0x00000485
I'm
running win95+ie5.....
Thanks for
your time
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6/13/2000 4:30:12 PM:wonka
All I get is file not found:
AlphaBlending.dll
I can't register
it using regsvr32, either.
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6/23/2000 2:20:03 PM:opello
Wouldn't this work on Win95?
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6/23/2000 2:22:03 PM:opello
Also, could you post the compiled
version? Because my VB6 LE won't run
anymore =( ... TiA!
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6/23/2000 8:18:22 PM:Brian
The compiled version is 2.2 megs. PSC
times out after I send about 600K, so I
can't send the EXE.
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6/25/2000 8:40:15 PM:WÏ©kÊÐ_WΣ£ÿ
Brian when will the next version come
out.
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6/28/2000 1:50:41 AM:Brian
BoS 1.2 will be released on August 1,
and will include lots of new features
including a Talking AIM client with a
profanity filter, a resizable start
button, a CD player, a DUN connection
manager, icons for the taskbar buttons,
and a lot more.
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7/5/2000 11:34:52 AM:Philip Neil
This is awesome.. But I am doing an
even better one so watch out
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7/6/2000 8:46:08 AM:Philip Neil
Hey I am trying to make my own but it
wont be as good as this.. Brian can you
tell me how to get the icons from the
bmp to the program you wrote the pics
in so perfect. I am using micrografx
and it fills part of the pic which
makes it look bad.. Or can you please
send me the icons/bmp's
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7/7/2000 12:28:48 PM:Philip Neil
Hey brian. Awesome code. Can ya send me
the code to get the windows desktop
icons in the form. I would really
appreciate it
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7/8/2000 9:13:57 PM:Cozmik X
Not Bad at all... this is a great
code!
But I have a problem when
running it. The Btoday screen forces
itself to always relocate to the side
of my screen... I don't know why it
does this... It's fine at first but
when I click on one of the tabs it does
it
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7/9/2000 9:16:42 PM:Yusuf
Whenever I try to unextract the zip
file, it does nothing. When I try to
make a checkout dir it says
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7/9/2000 9:23:12 PM:Yusuf
Whenever I try to extract the zip file
it doesnt do anything when i try to
make a checkout it says it cant make
the folder "C:"... why is it trying to
make a folder named "c:"??? Please
e-mail me y_simonson@hotmail.com
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7/10/2000 4:54:35 AM:Khalil
Very promising project! I hoep it will
keep improving ...
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7/10/2000 11:26:58 AM:cozmik x
wow, I just fixed a few things in it
and this code kicks a-s-s. and the
cooler part is you did it in VISUAL
BASIC! This rocks, I hope to see more
improvements in the future. Later,
Cozmik X
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7/11/2000 8:40:35 PM:Yusuf
Hold up dude. Are my unextracting
probs cause i got win98 instead of NT?
S***!
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7/11/2000 8:42:54 PM:Yusuf
O wait... it does work with 98...
him... then what is wrong...?
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7/12/2000 9:25:38 AM:Alex Ionescu
Yet again, this thing is too
bloat-ware.... Tell me, how many people
are going to download a 3MB shell (2.2
MB compiled msvbvm60.dll
alphablending.dll). And the shell
itself is 2.2MB, meaning that it loads
slowly in memory, and uses up a whole
load of ressources. Alphablending in a
shell is rather useless, unless you're
an excellent coder.. Even MacOS X is
having problems with transparency and
all that... Anyways, once the code gets
to about 400kb, and has a much faster
start menu, a better desktop and a
systray handler, then I will consider
it
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7/13/2000 1:44:47 AM:Super Postman
Alex, go ahead and make something
better than this...then i will consider
yours.
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7/15/2000 1:45:51 PM:Yusuf
nevermind about the zip prob... i got
PKZIP and it unzips perfectly with
that... this junk is awesome! Where's
the code that resizes all the windows
so that BoS's desktop is always on
top???
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7/17/2000 11:11:07 PM:Mack 10
Great job!
Could you please submit
this to a new great VB site at
http://www.dev-center.com
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7/26/2000 1:53:57 PM:Drarok
hmm doesn't run properly on my system!
i have the resolution one about
1024x768, which i have to change, and
then the windows arrange themselves
wherever they want!
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7/28/2000 2:23:53 PM:Chris Rose
Hi, i am curerently working on a
project for logos/sms/phone book
manager 4 nokia phones and i need
someone to help out with good looking
splash screen/other area's graphics.
If you think that you can help then
please email
me:
chris_1024@hotmail.com
The
grapx need to be good and i am flat
broke so i cant give you anything
except fame when ur name comes up in
the corner of the splash screen seen by
millions every time they turn on there
pc.
Chris
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7/29/2000 9:01:29 PM:Morphius
I've Found that BoS works on Windows 95
only if you have "msimg32.dll" and
"alphablending.dll" in your system
folder, the msimg32 translates the
alpha blending.
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7/30/2000 8:39:41 PM:Michael L. Barker
Doesn't work well at all on W2K. Also
try and not hard code your paths.
Like:
Public Const DesktopPath =
"C:\Windows\Desktop"
You should use
API get the the paths.
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7/31/2000 8:02:14 PM:Marcelo
Its better than those 100 betas u
posted, but still, what you are doing
is re-building explorer.exe
funcionality, and lets face it, if
anyone was to waste memory with another
shell, they wouldn´t do it for a
slower, memory hungry one, that does
exactly, or actually, not even as good
as the standard one? hehe, just my way
of looking at it...
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8/2/2000 9:28:24 PM:WÏ©kÊÐ_WΣ£ÿ
When are you going to release the final
version of BoS, and when will your site
be back up. 1 other thing you need to
make a program that will let you make
skinz like winamp has instead of having
to make them by hand
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8/17/2000 4:14:01 PM:jason
there is a major problem with this
program at least on my comp.......every
time i load it it puts my programs that
i have open at the top of the screen
and i can't do anything with
them.....it also causes half my screen
to mess up please help
me.....hasent78@hotmail.com
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8/17/2000 4:42:10 PM:jason
Nevermind i think i got it.....but
there is one thing that could be fixed
that is that when normal windows is
started there are things in the task
bar near the clock....or programs that
are running...with bos these programs
don't show up in this area....this
would be amazing if that could be fixed
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10/7/2000 10:57:09 AM:Sauron
This code looks greate!!!
I am going
to download it and vote for it right
away!!!
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3/22/2001 8:49:59 PM:Jamie Lindgren
This sounds very great although I
wouldn't try it myself because I don't
want to screw around with my desktop
anymore than I already have. lol
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10/3/2002 3:34:39 AM:
Simple Question:
Why don't you offer a
compiled version with either PGP sig or
CRC ?
I want to try, but wasting a few
hundred bucks for VB5 or 6 just because
there is no compiled version is a
strange thing to me.
Please provide a
precompiled version too, nobody can
expect everyone in the world who
downloads this replacement has a
compiler on it's machine.
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10/3/2002 3:38:04 AM:
Why don't you provide a precompiled
verion ? Please do so.
I am eager to
kick explorer as shell, but I feel like
it is expected that everyone in the
world who want's to try BoS is forced
to waste a few hundred bucks to buy the
compiler from M$.
If I missed
something (compiler for free) please
say so.
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4/27/2003 4:08:45 AM:80 SpitFire 08
Where the sh*t can i get
alphablending.dll
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