I know this may seem a bit newbish and all and I apologize if it does.
Lately I've been trying to customize my Inspiron a little more. Up to now I've gotten the most common features such as the windows theme, background, and cursors for simplicites. Recently I've taken it up a notch and used a BIOS image loader posted elsewhere on this forum to get a custom bios image and I've also modified the xp boot screen and msgina.dll files to cover the boot phase and the classic logon mode in xp. Other than the occasional third party app, which is out of my control anyhow, the Quickset app comes to mind as something that sticks out like a sore thumb now. It's EXTREMELY useful for the obvious visual feedback of the Fn keystrokes. But the 'gui' (if it can be called such a thing) on the various popups, as stated above, sticks out like a sore thumb.
I've ran the quickset.exe file through resource hacker. Basics like the 'wifi on/off' popup images I have found and are easily replaceable. The problem though is on the volume/brightness popups where they have their own crude 'rounded' gui. (reference image below). Those 'dialogs' are listed in resource hacker, but there's no easily findable reference to the actual graphicsl part of it and nothing recognizable comes up in the list of bitmaps or icons.
I'm just curious if a) Anyone has done or attempted this and has any insight, b) has enough knowledge to track this kind of thing down, or c) Knows of a more pleasant looking replacement so quickset is not required to be kept around (I don't quite care about superfluous features like nagging about a dying battery, disabling the wired NIC on battery power, or having the extra 'power profiles' forced on me. I would be perfectly happy with just feedback of wireless toggle, brightness adjustment, volume adjustment, and crt/lcd toggling. Though I doubt there's any third party apps available with this functionality.)
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Lately I've been trying to customize my Inspiron a little more. Up to now I've gotten the most common features such as the windows theme, background, and cursors for simplicites. Recently I've taken it up a notch and used a BIOS image loader posted elsewhere on this forum to get a custom bios image and I've also modified the xp boot screen and msgina.dll files to cover the boot phase and the classic logon mode in xp. Other than the occasional third party app, which is out of my control anyhow, the Quickset app comes to mind as something that sticks out like a sore thumb now. It's EXTREMELY useful for the obvious visual feedback of the Fn keystrokes. But the 'gui' (if it can be called such a thing) on the various popups, as stated above, sticks out like a sore thumb.
I've ran the quickset.exe file through resource hacker. Basics like the 'wifi on/off' popup images I have found and are easily replaceable. The problem though is on the volume/brightness popups where they have their own crude 'rounded' gui. (reference image below). Those 'dialogs' are listed in resource hacker, but there's no easily findable reference to the actual graphicsl part of it and nothing recognizable comes up in the list of bitmaps or icons.
I'm just curious if a) Anyone has done or attempted this and has any insight, b) has enough knowledge to track this kind of thing down, or c) Knows of a more pleasant looking replacement so quickset is not required to be kept around (I don't quite care about superfluous features like nagging about a dying battery, disabling the wired NIC on battery power, or having the extra 'power profiles' forced on me. I would be perfectly happy with just feedback of wireless toggle, brightness adjustment, volume adjustment, and crt/lcd toggling. Though I doubt there's any third party apps available with this functionality.)
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