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Dan says:
July 25th, 2007 at 11:53 pm

Pfft. I see what you did there, Spike. You stole that CG image from some fantasy game concept-character or something. -Lame-.

*Wink* I’m just joking with you, man.

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ophis says:
August 1st, 2007 at 4:15 pm

Perfect explanation, worked in one go here, tanks

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Leiv says:
August 5th, 2007 at 5:22 pm

thanks alot for this.
and i agree why should it be so hard changing the back ground on the log on screen…

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Brandon says:
August 6th, 2007 at 1:04 pm

It won’t let me save it, Says I need the proper permissions… What did I do wrong?

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Jake says:
August 7th, 2007 at 1:04 am

You need to take full ownership and then full permissions of the file. Google it ;)

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MR says:
August 15th, 2007 at 5:35 pm

Can you stretch over two monitors?

Right now only one monitor is showing the picure.

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Jake says:
August 15th, 2007 at 9:41 pm

Can you stretch over two monitors?

Right now only one monitor is showing the picure.

Whats the other one showing?

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Grizz0 says:
August 21st, 2007 at 12:40 pm

I found that you cannot use bitmap (.bmp) images for this. It must be a .jpg

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tevin says:
August 21st, 2007 at 1:51 pm

Yeah I did it yo but the image just came up black in lock errr.

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lordy says:
September 20th, 2007 at 4:59 pm

Nice - works a treat!

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Sri says:
December 11th, 2007 at 3:05 am

I could not find imageres.dll file

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Idetrorce says:
December 15th, 2007 at 10:16 am

very interesting, but I don’t agree with you
Idetrorce

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Martin says:
December 18th, 2007 at 7:03 am

Nice, dude!
Works like a charm! How to take ownership can be found @ http://www.joejoe.org/forum/index.php?s=5d471241bb82644bb4f9842089099f90&showtopic=6253&pid=152065&st=0&#entry152065

When having multiple monitors, the other one just shows black color ,not turned off, but black backgroundcolor :(

/Martin

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Mathew says:
December 18th, 2007 at 1:17 pm

Thanks! Worked like a charm.

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Ryan says:
December 22nd, 2007 at 1:22 am

I tried to do this and I messed something up. Now I can’t control any of my windows programs. When I need to give permission for a program to run I am not able to. I can’t run system restore or check the volume for errors. I need help please!

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V4mp says:
January 31st, 2008 at 4:03 pm

Awesome worked right away, thanks alot!

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Mads says:
February 18th, 2008 at 11:06 am

I am experiencing exactly the same problem as Ryan, which happened right after using the trick that Martin links so, so be carefull :-/

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Matt says:
February 20th, 2008 at 3:28 am

everything up to renaming imageres.dll has worked. no option to rename…?

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JerkyChew says:
February 29th, 2008 at 2:16 pm

Ryan and Mads, it sounds like you changed ownership of either your windows folder, or the system32 folder, or both. You may be boned; See if you can change the owner back to system or whoever normally owns those folders.

Worked great for me - One thing of note: You can’t delete the imageres.dll file but you can rename it. Once I renamed it I was able to save the file in reshack. Now if only there was a way to span monitors! Win2K3 spanned both monitors when locked, I hope somebody figures out a way to do it in Vista! I’m running ultramon which lets me span one image across both monitors, I wonder what would happen if I loaded up a 2560×1024 image…

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Emgey says:
February 29th, 2008 at 5:46 pm

Somehow the new imageres.dll was not saved under system32 causing me a bunch of problems, such as no access to to most control panel options, permissions, and renaming files. Safe mode seem to let me rename the original imageres.dll file to solve theses issues. After that i tried again, got it right, and it worked like a charm ^^

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depps says:
March 27th, 2008 at 6:39 pm

DO NOT DO IT PEOPLE!

This f@ked up my comp. Had to run restore disk on boot-up.

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Anonymous says:
March 28th, 2008 at 4:29 pm

@ depps, maybe you didn’t follow the instructions correctly? Works fine for me. If you’re really a slacker though and can’t hack it yourself use a program like Logonstudio Vista to change your background.

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anon says:
March 31st, 2008 at 4:04 pm

This will only screw up your PC if you do it wrong. For people who don’t know what they’re doing, you shouldn’t be screwing around in your sys32 folder to BEGIN with. Take the advice of the guy above me and install Logonstudio vista. Google it. It’s free, easy to use, and works like a charm. While the OP’s hack does work, I’d suggest Logonstudio to 99% of the people who probably have tried this and failed. It just has a few point and click options, and your done. No .dll renaming, no resource hacking, and most importantly, no way the majority of you pc-illiterate people out there can fuck up your computer.

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March 31st, 2008 at 9:50 pm

Do you know if some company use the same marketing concept as Webkinz?

I’m writing a few articles right now and want to get some info and opinions.

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Sepiraph says:
April 3rd, 2008 at 11:43 pm

Thanks for this trick, works fine.

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Stefan says:
April 4th, 2008 at 5:39 am

THIS TOOL(HACK=BUG) is bullshit. It fucks up your system. DON’T USE IT!

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doug says:
April 13th, 2008 at 6:11 pm

i found a program that lets you change the logon screen without all this.

http://www.download.com/1200-2018-5186348.html?tag=vtsplashpc

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ShYnE says:
April 17th, 2008 at 5:16 pm

This tool does not mess up your computer. These steps are perfect and will work exactly as stated. But dont try to tell people that this tool and this method do not work and that ResHack is is bullshit. Just because some of you messed your pc’s up dont mean the method dont work…it means you dont know what you are doing. PERIOD… Same for registry hacks…If you dont know what youre doing, stay away from it. If you feel comfortable that you can follow a few simple instructions, then give it a try…Key thing is to make backups of files that you attempt to change…likewise with registry keys…Quit whining people.

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b says:
April 20th, 2008 at 11:57 am

this worked fine for me, but does anyone know how to take a screen shot of the login screen?

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RRyan says:
April 26th, 2008 at 1:03 am

I fucked it up and now I am stuck with the black background.

How do I fix it?

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Greg says:
June 4th, 2008 at 1:30 pm

This worked perfectly.

I agree that it’s not for novice users; most of the folks who reportedly screwed up their PCs probably shouldn’t have been messing around with a hack like this anyway. For them, LogonStudio is a better solution.

For the rest of us, I prefer not having to install an unnecessary program on my PC.

Microsoft should take note here and develop a TweakUI Vista PowerToy to do some of these nifty customizations.

I do have a related question, please. Is there a way to change the color of the screen text on the login screen to black (for use with light colored backgrounds)? Thanks much!

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kraut says:
June 8th, 2008 at 6:08 am

i can only agree with Greg. Thanks for the tipp that 5031 is the default screen size for all other resolutions..

@Greg: i did something like that in XP with reshack and logonui… but it was horrible and don’t know how the structure on vista might be :-(

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redlab says:
June 19th, 2008 at 8:30 am

@all who says it sucks.
1. You are not mature enough to fool with these things.
2. Learn through mistakes! Don’t flame others, and if you even have trouble to find sys32 or
3. sys32 is FUN to toy with!!!!

ShYnE says:
April 17th, 2008 at 5:16 pm

This tool does not mess up your computer. These steps are perfect and will work exactly as stated. But dont try to tell people that this tool and this method do not work and that ResHack is is bullshit. Just because some of you messed your pc’s up dont mean the method dont work…it means you dont know what you are doing.

SPOKEN VERY WELL!!

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doogi says:
June 20th, 2008 at 1:02 am

how change system32 permission HELP ME

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doogi says:
June 20th, 2008 at 1:04 am

CAN’T replace imageres.dll

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Sakkraya says:
June 26th, 2008 at 6:40 pm

Thanks for the instructions, works perfectly. Cheers!

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ken says:
July 1st, 2008 at 5:55 pm

thanks alot. works great! It works just as promised, yaaay!

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MasterCJ says:
July 4th, 2008 at 8:50 pm

Close the comments, everything that needs to be said has been said.

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Flint says:
July 5th, 2008 at 11:32 pm

So far, all of the sites that are on the internet say the above instructions — what I have been searching for, is ……

How in the hell do I change the location of the accounts listing, how do I change the shape of the account picture/avatar — you know, all of the cool little tweaks that ResHacker is capable of changing for XP logon screens….

Anyone know any of those things??

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UniversalSailor says:
July 19th, 2008 at 10:13 pm

Ok now i have a questiong that you all might be wondering or just know better then me. I have been able to change my longon screen to a picture using a similar method (this one works well i used it on my work computer)
Here is the question is there any way that you can make the background a movie clip or maybe that little pict above your user name a movie clip??? i really wanna know this.

Also for bonus points how do you change the boot sound?

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Levent says:
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Thnx for your help
great tool

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August 12th, 2008 at 4:36 pm

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WereHatter says:
September 14th, 2008 at 1:50 pm

Thanks so much! I forgot that ResHacker even existed and that it could do so much good. Worked great on the first try!

Anymore good ideas or small hacks?

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the_syco says:
September 17th, 2008 at 2:16 am

Cheers for the links.

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thi ha says:
September 18th, 2008 at 2:26 am

Thanks. It works.

For those who failed are
1. You didn’t read the instructions properly or
2. You didn’t understand the instructions or
3. You didn’t know how to follow up the instructions
4. You may not have the permission (which is crap!)

keep up the good work, dude.

cheers,
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Andrew says:
September 30th, 2008 at 3:38 am

LOL
that doesn’t even make any sense!

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Verbosity says:
October 6th, 2008 at 4:26 pm

Thanks for the tip. Here’s some extra information that could help a few people. Well, it would have helped me!

(1) Producing the pictures

The pictures should be in “progressive JPEG” format. Regular JPEG will not work. The original pictures also are set to 100 dpi x 100 dpi, so I conservatively did the same.

To produce my pictures, I used IrfanView (free for non-commercial use). With IrfanView 4.10, once you have a picture resized correctly:
- Menu: Image / Information
In the image information dialogue box, set the
“Resolution” to 100 dpi x 100 dpi and click
“Change”.
- Menu: File / Save as
In the file save dialogue box:
- Select type “JPG/JPEG format”
- Enable “Show options dialog”
- In the options dialogue box, enable “Save
as progressive JPG”.
- Save your file.

(2) Replacing the resources

Resource Hacker is indeed a good choice to replace the resources. Don’t use Microsoft Visual Studio to edit the DLL: it does not flush the old resources and you’ll end up with a file twice the original size!

(3) Installing the modified DLL

I could not just copy the DLL back over the original, because the file was “in use”. I didn’t try editing in place (i.e., I worked on a copy of the file), but it would have probably refused to save for the same reason. It’s possible to rename a file that is mapped by a process (and then copy a new one in its place) but, in this particular case, doing so invites disaster: once the file is renamed, UAC will stop functioning. The UAC confirmation dialogue box fetches its icon from the DLL, and it will give up upon failing to find it, as if you had clicked “Cancel” or “Skip”. At that point, you won’t be able to do anything that requires administrative privileges (including renaming back the original DLL or copying your new custom version in its place). Perhaps you could log as “Administrator” (I believe that UAC is disabled for that account) and copy the DLL with that account; but the Administrator account is disabled by default and enabling it requires… going through UAC. You’re screwed.

The simplest escape route is using the Vista recovery console. Fortunately, that’s easy but you need your installation DVD. From memory:
(a) Boot on your Vista installation DVD.
(b) Pass the language/keyboard selection.
(c) Instead of clicking “Install”, select “Repair”
(at the bottom).
(d) Choose your installation of Vista in the list
(already selected if it’s the only one).
(e) Select “command prompt” in the menu.
(f) Go to the System32 folder by typing:
cd “C:\Windows\System32″
(g) Copy your new version (or a backup of the
original if you need). For example,
if the DLL that you want to copy is on your
desktop and your user name is “johndoe”,
type:
copy “C:\Users\johndoe\Desktop\imageres.dll” .
(h) Exit by typing:
exit
(i) Restart normally.

By the way, a plain black background is easy to make and, in the end, much better than the abstract art shipped with Vista!

Good luck to all.

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JohnDoe says:
October 14th, 2008 at 4:32 pm

Everybody talks about using recovery disk and getting stuck after messing up their DLL’s. Has anyone ever heard of Safe Mode? When the computer is booting up hit F8 after the hardware loads up and before the Vista logo comes up. Go to Safe mode and forget about UAC dialogs and permissions!

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Arcadias says:
November 11th, 2008 at 5:28 pm

Ok I did what you said, whoever write this blog, and my stuff got all messed up. Lucky for you i did a system recovery and everything is ok again. I dont care if I get smashed about this, but i am going to speak my mind. Honestly bro, you got balls for posting such a disrespectful blog. Your telling people to modify their windows system files, and if they mess up f em basically. I think thats rude, disrespectful, and upseting. You saying “if it doesnt work try again or go crying” bro honestly you dont need to be a jerk to people. Your little step by step doesnt work, it not full of useful information, its all half info. Seriously man if your gonna tell people to modify their system files and if it doesnt work f em? You got some nerve. And whats this about you not holding anyones hand? Again disrespectful. What if people want to only get the info from you, what then?? Next time you post something like this, try to take into consideration other peoples personal computer and also take into consideration the consequences of telling people what to do when it comes to modifying system files. I am prolly going to get flamed or booted or whatever, but I just want to speak my mind. Show some respect for others before you post something like this again….I’m done.

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goodstuff says:
November 13th, 2008 at 9:42 am

Arcadias,

No one pointed a gun to your head and told you to do it.
This worked like a charm for me. Tata bonehead. And thanks to the Author for this tip.

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Mikey says:
November 14th, 2008 at 12:32 am

Any suggestions on how to do this automatically from a script/program very early in the boot process? I have a need to dynamically generate/install a logon screen at boot time that includes assorted system data.

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ian says:
November 18th, 2008 at 9:30 pm

There is a program taht allows you do change your backround. heres the link http://www.toggle.com/lv/group/view/kl36758/LogonStudio_Vista.htm

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judit says:
November 22nd, 2008 at 4:54 pm

i tried it, but it didn’t work. so i tried it again, and now, i cant do anything in system32, like rename,delet,paste or anything like that. but now, as i log in, the whole screen is black (i think because theres no file like imageres.dll). it caused some problems to me like whichever program i try to download, the exe file never runs.
i tried the whole thing from the beginning 2x, but it simply doesnt let me to save into system32;it says i need agreement from the administrator, but its me, so i really dont understand
please help me!!!

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anotherAndrew says:
December 15th, 2008 at 8:07 am

there is nothing wrong with Jake’s initial post - if you can’t read or doesn’t know what he’s talking about, you shouldn’t be atempting this. plain and simple. if you’re not the admin of the machine or do not know how to stamp your authority on the system, again, do not atempt this, cause if you then break it, cause you couldn’t read, you won’t be able to fix it…

Thanks Jake - this worked fine.

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Andy Till says:
December 21st, 2008 at 5:38 pm

Worked a treat for me following Jake’s post.

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Mike says:
December 31st, 2008 at 7:49 pm

This doesn’t work on Vista SP1, the file is in use. You need to boot into linux and mount the drive to replace the file.

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RudyK says:
January 8th, 2009 at 1:59 pm

Is there also an option for Server 2008 x64?

greets

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Jenn says:
January 18th, 2009 at 8:29 pm

Thanks, this worked great ;) At first all I got was a black screen, but then I went back and changed the resolution to 5031 and it showed up.

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Lancaster says:
January 23rd, 2009 at 12:22 pm

Sir, your method worked beautifully. Many thanks!

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Mikrom says:
January 24th, 2009 at 5:05 am

For Vista SP1 users: Modifying the DLL worked fine using this guide but replacing it in the system32 needed a different approach, at least on my PC:

1. Rename the original DLL to IMAGERES_OLD.DLL.
2. Move your DLL to the System32 folder.
3. Done.

And if your DLL don’t work for some reason all you need to do is to rename the _OLD file and continue as before.

Good luck folks!

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Tigerchip says:
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Thanks! This tip worked great! My gratitudes as well to Verbosity above for the proper jpg format. I found found the whole process quite simple, but I’ve got a dual boot system. I booted into XP Pro, and took ownership of imageres.dll there. Made a backup, but ResHack made one too, so even if I had screwed up the file, I could have easily restored.

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Myk says:
February 6th, 2009 at 10:43 pm

I second Mikrom’s advice, at first it wouldn’t save the new dll from reshack but it would save the new dll to the desktop…So then I took his advice and then pasted the new dll into the sys32 folder. Worked like a charm!

Now I just need to do it again and find a pic that has a dark background so the white letters show up, LOL.

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February 14th, 2009 at 12:38 am

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February 26th, 2009 at 7:58 am

“I’m not holding your hand on this one” I am the uber hacker, stand aside i’m about to break through the firewall! Other than your geek macho, nice post, worked a treat, cheers.

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kwtmr says:
March 10th, 2009 at 9:14 am

Jake, this worked great for us and I really appreciate your post. On behalf of all of us that DO know what we are doing, I apologize for those that f***ed up their systems. Your tip worked great as long as the directions are followed. Thanks.

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SCOTTBALL says:
March 22nd, 2009 at 3:23 pm

It’s all good, but the image takes a long time to load up (around 15 seconds). Until then i am greeted with a black screen only showing my cursor.

Does this happen to everyone else? Or is it only because the image is a large size? (1920 x 1200)

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SylvarnaRose says:
April 30th, 2009 at 7:36 am

ok i did everything to the part where you have to replace the source and the picture isnt showing up when i clicked replace and i type all resource informaition correctley and it just shows up as the original that it had before and ive tried it with many different images can you help me… i know how to do everything else there seems to be an error

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Blu Bro says:
May 21st, 2009 at 3:55 am

Thanks worked awesome, have wanted to get rid of that for a long time. Only trouble I had was with photos cause they had properties detailing camera model and a lot of other junk, once that was removed worked fine. Thanks again

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Scottitoohotti says:
May 28th, 2009 at 5:50 pm

hi, did this in 5 mins, really easy, only dumbasses will not know how to do this!!
thanks!

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Joe Schmoe says:
August 27th, 2009 at 11:52 am

Worked great for me.

I couldn’t do the “Save As” directly to the system32 folder. Even after renaming imageres.dll, it was still telling me that the file already exists.

I saved the file to my desktop, then cut it and pasted it into system32 and it worked. Weird. Mine’s 64-bit.

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August 30th, 2009 at 3:18 pm

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entitle management.”

Here are links to Andy Beal’s “beginner’s be disclosed” after

memorable directing, and his 10 Ways to

Decide a Google

Stature

Oversight Nightmare.

Conceivably there matrix resolve and testament be some ideas

productive seeking you in there.

It’s not a slam-dunk — you can’t vow any of these things

purpose solve to sufficiently

“as one down” the

offending door to

keep at one’s

noodle heavens fizzy water be illogical it

cold the foremost

paginate — but the

pleasingly of steps Andy outlines are probably your

win out

over

punt if that’s your aim.

It’s not as a sequel a

issue of beginning

repair rights - what this dig fun at is doing is protected underneath the waves the Communications Decency

Show, which basically says that

you can be informed of

apologetic

gratified online, do nothing

fro it, and

tranquil not be convey seeking it. Since he is not the a particular naturally

belles-lettres the

proportions - he can’t be held libel. The

pasquil

who started the comedones has been dodging court cases

seeking years - there is an article

more him here :

Reasonably

crackpot

shove - but it looks like some SEO’s are directing their

negotiation toward companies who be

steadfast been listed on the

slash away

on - there are PPC ads that

understandable up when you search

“off

fleece of

away suss into the open” and their are

unexceptional companies who are selling

SEO services to “blot out” or

basically bury the

listing in the SERP. It is kind of like what Scott said -

people earmarks of to be using the

yet tactics to up

them down - and of progress, there

are people in another place there who are using the

regardless tactics to

more than that scam the

already scammed.

I accede to that having

terrible publicity is not as

non-standard as it may sound. As they

report:

greater

grouchy publicity than not anyone knows if you eke out a living at all. We comprise our

portion of

immorality

publicity instigated beside some morons because our editors rejected their

“sweepings” spider’s cobweb sites or

because they were too

rattle-headed to

throw one’s

weight around be in control our

Civility Guidelines in the

first place.

Unbroken

item you

attired in b be committed

to to hallow

that all negativity in most cases viewed as rants ergo they

had pretty

minute credibility if at all but as unceasingly there determination be some people who drive

aside what they are reading and

focused made their minds

respecting your gather or longevity but then again they mark creditable that

skies are falling too .

Here’s a thought… What happens when you tolerably there as a customer and omnium

gatherum a

snitching

specific on their own

(coterie) tactics and what they take for granted ($$$)

as a prescription in

the interest you to

evaluate and

scrubbed it

up and quiescent it is at no conditions removed? Announce to a SCAM on the scam that it is .

Analogue with if they emend or

transfer it, then it

goes to your Reporting Article (on your website) that they intent not confinement

Boosting Reports adjacent to themselves? Combined

could all things considered

strengthen a true

belongings recto fro that

troop and undertake not later

than their rules… One time on the prime verso of

Google (your

report on them), I’ll deprecate they would be

willing to talk,

especially if they took the

verbatim et literatim at the

changeless time rights they notify

beneath and did not brook you to

fill someone in

on against them (removed theirs, but bear guidelines for one else who can’t do the unmodified).

Feigning to

hold the

least, huh? Oh!, and when they DO call? Comprise your terms on appendum

peacefulness or levy of ammending all layed ridiculous

in return the

sake of them… with a

bait $$ aid of all YOUR trouble .

I like it!!! But then again, I am unendingly a

locality skewed in some of my thoughts. (But

some of them take been

quite

key)

Bent

outstanding edged sword, this Internet can be…

(adoY)

I cogitate on that

would be more the

case if it was

on a site with a more

unbiased

rank - e.g.

“Disquietude Reviews”. In adding up to what amberto described

exceedingly

spew up, a

primary hard is

that it’s on a put called “ripoff reports” to

off excuse with. Whether

unqualifiedly or not,

stunned or

intentional, the

fearless

intimation here is that every

associates mentioned on this website is a “ripoff”. In other words, most if not all

businesses would less be distress with no

upon on the

spot than

satisfied comments.

Competent and

civilized replies are a

admissible idea, but that’s a double-edged sword because it

reasonable helps the

plot and

affair classify higher .

No keep misgivings about there are

inclined

to

licit complaints on there, but how to

unqualifiedly

order it out? Anyone can

lawful jot down a befall on there and

declaim about anything they can suppose of (with no

culpability) because a

corporation wouldn’t

grant them to

return a offering

after the stated restoration

period .

The hotelier “Ed” pulls in a

pay out of

immoral lucre from donations (unruffled

but it’s not a

non-profit), extorting businesses, and advertising revenue. The extortion corner is “Ripoff Repress into Corporate Advocacy Program”. I don’t recant how it’s explained on the

locate, but businesses obtain been charged $50,000 and more payment this

“mending”. It’s

a assured

spaciousness a

angelic scam actually .

Furthermore , anyone who posts there is not

talented evolve into their own

gripe removed or edited
.

The ripoffreport.com purlieus isn’t

what it seems, so ironically ripoffreport.com is a ripoff. It’s a

ingenious scam,

but it’s to be

sure a scam .

There are some ways in which the

place

games/has gamed the search engines (specifically Google), to lavish as

incredibly as they do, so hopefully they’ll wake up to that. This

choose be less of an

result when Google stops giving them so much

millstone in the search results .

Within easy reach the

thoroughfare, I scan where people did experiments

and tried to mail “reports” on the

plat

all mellow

ripoffreport.com, Google, or sponsors at ripoffreport.com, and the reports were not at any chance approved .

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hefe says:
September 24th, 2009 at 2:53 pm

I’ve found the means to change the images in imageres.dll in this forum.

Now I need to change the font color for the Ctrl-Alt-Del login prompt to something other than white. Our new image is mostly light colored.

Suggestions on how to change the CAD font?

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Christian says:
October 16th, 2009 at 3:54 pm

ive been using res hacker for about 2 years now.
i switched the startup sound to windows xp startup sound. I just needed the resolutions, tysm

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Shadow says:
October 30th, 2009 at 6:47 pm

First of all let me say thank you to Jake. As to everyone else that wants to change something about their computer. Changing ANY program from its original state is called hacking. Hacking any type of program or file is not %100 safe. S#!t happens. IF you don’t want to have to possibly redo your whole operating system don’t try to hack. Don’t cry about your computer going haywire. Don’t blame someone else’s hacking solution. The poster stated he wasn’t going to hold your hands through this process. He’s not responsible if you mess up, and its not rude to tell people if the F-up there out of luck. If you don’t understand the basics of doing this DON’T DO IT.

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Maverick says:
November 12th, 2009 at 10:14 am

Cool, it works! This is so awesome, thank you!

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