Hello,

For beginning, I'd like to say that Vista Inspirat's bricopack is really a great all in one package to bring Vista appareance to XP.

I bought and installed my new graphic card ATI Radeon HD 3870 Gigabyte.  I never had any problem with the Brico Pack Vista Inspirat with my old card Nvidia 6600GT(Hardware details down page)

Since I've installed my new graphic card, I have a display problem in windows XP toolbar menus

Picture showing this display problem in XP menus (with Brico Pack Vista Inspirat 2)

Note
I've tried a complete uninstallation and a clean reinstallation of the pack (in safe mode)
I precise that there is no problem with the original Windows Xp style.
I made some tests with other applications or games without encountering problems.

According to you, from what this bug come and how to solve this problem?

I would be very thanksfull for trying to help me. Thanks by adance. Regards.

Hardware details:

>Microsoft Windows XP Home
>Boitier Thermaltake Lanbox Lite MAJ
>Carte mère MSI 7191 RS4582 M4
>Chipset intégré ATI Radeon Xpress 200
>Alimentation Corsair VX 450W MAJ
>Processeur AMD Athlon 64X2 3800+ Core Manchester (Ventirad Cooler Master)
>Carte graphique ATI Radeon HD3870 Gigabyte Zalman 512 mo de DDR3 MAJ
    2 Go de DDR cadencée à 400 Mhz Cas 3:
>2X512mo de DDR Elixir (Origine)
>2X512mo de DDR Kingston value MAJ
>Disque dur 160 Go Hitachi Deskstar 7K160 SATA 8Mo de mémoire cache MAJ
>Ventilateur 90mm Coolink SWIF 922 Basic silent en façade. 2 ventilateurs 60mm Akasa AK-182-L2B à l'arrière du boitier. MAJ
>Rhéobus AKASA Fan Control Pro FC03 pour réguler les fréquences de rotation de mes 3 ventilateurs et diminuer les nuisances sonores. MAJ
>Lecteur/Graveur DVD Samsung
>Ensemble clavier/souris sans fil Logitech Cordless rechargeable desktop
>Moniteur TFT 17" Philips 170C Résolution 1280X1024 Fréquence de rafraîchissement 75Hz
>Pad Playstation 2 avec adaptateur Mayflash

Have you tried using older video drivers. I'm sure you installed the most current drivers when you bought your card, right?

Hello,

thank you for your answer.

First I have installed the drivers that was on Gigabyte's CD.
Then I tryed with the latest ATI drivers but nothing changed

I believe the bug is in the Visual style itself.
You could try another visual-style to see if the problem still occurs.

For help in installing Visualstyles, please refer to: this topic

I've tried an other visual style by using TuneUp Styler.

There's no problem with this one.

All the 4 Vista Inspirat 2 visual styles have the same problem for displaying correctly the bar ( Display usual tasks in folders)

Do you think that there's a conflict with my GPU drivers?
Will we be able to solve this problem?
Which visual style is the closest to real Vista appareance? (The best Vista like style)

Thank you very much for your help.

Hi Formulajuan

There are thousands of Vista-Visual-Styles: VS are here, here or here.

Thank you for the links.

But now, the most difficult for me will be to make a choice!

I agree, sometimes I change every few day the visual-style  

Hello,
 
I've searched a new Vista visual style for my Windows XP but I didn't managed to find one having a closer appearance to Vista Inspirat 2, particulary in french language. (I'll post a message in the french section). I don't want to install an other software like styler... and other little customization softs.
 
I have an other idea.
Could someone, send me separately the Vista Inspirat 2 visual style? I would like to try to delete the old one (my be corrupted by ati drivers during installation) and replace them manually in C:\Windows\Ressources\Themes.
 
Thanks by advance for your answers.
If someone could send me the content of his Vista Inspirat 2 visual styles folder (With all colors), it would be perfect. Maybe, it will work normally.Why not? I want to try.We'll see.

Hello,

I have this problem too. I am using HD 3650.
You can edit the shellstyle.dll to solve this problem.

1. Open Display Properties >Appearance > Color scheme
    Change Color scheme to other scheme ( No Aero Green/Blue/Black because you are going to edit it)
2. Use Resource Hacker to Open Shellstyle.dll in C:\WINDOWS\Resources\Themes\Inspirat2\Shell\NormalColor (This is Aero Green)
3. Expend UIFILE>1>1033
4. In Resource Hacker menu, View>Find Text
5. Find "<style resid=taskpane>"
6. Under the <style resid=taskpane>, you will see there are three lines which need to change,
    Change from:

background: rcbmp(120,6,0,0,0,1,0);
borderthickness: rect(4,4,4,4);
padding: rect(4rp,4rp,0rp,0rp);

to
background: rcbmp(120,5,0,0,0,1,0);
borderthickness: rect(8,8,8,2);
padding: rect(1rp,1rp,1rp,1rp);

7. Save the file and then Compile Script
8. Change AeroBlack and AeroBlue too.

I am sorry my english is bad. Hope you will understand.

Thanks for your post! I'm sure it will help many people
Here is an easier version to follow:

1. Open Display Properties > Appearance. Change the Visual-style to the Windows XP default (the blue one)
2. Download ResHack: Download link. After download, unzip the ResHack.zip file and double-click on ResHack.exe
3. On ResHack, open shellstyle.dll which can be found in C:\WINDOWS\Resources\Themes\Inspirat2\Shell\NormalColor (This one is Aero Green)
4. Expand the UIFILE [on the left bar of ResHack], then expand 1 and then click on 1033 (or whatever you have, since it may differ with different languages)
5. Open the ResHack File-menu -> Find text [or press CTRL and F at the same time
6. Search for <style resid=taskpane>. Below <style resid=taskpane> you can see three lines of text that you will have to change.
CODEChange the:
background: rcbmp(120,6,0,0,0,1,0);
borderthickness: rect(4,4,4,4);
padding: rect(4rp,4rp,0rp,0rp);

to:

background: rcbmp(120,5,0,0,0,1,0);
borderthickness: rect(8,8,8,2);
padding: rect(1rp,1rp,1rp,1rp);

You can do this for the Aero Blue and Black too.
For images of how to do this, view the previous post

I tried your solution (detailed with complete explanations) and I managed easily to make work perfectly the visual style.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR HELP! What an efficient support forum! Problem solved

Sorry for my bad English. Have a nice day. Best regards.

What is the reason for this problem? Should this fix be made to the officially brico pack, too?

biglazy1020   thanks ,thanks, thanks

up pc looks like a cube lol AWESOME my graghics card wont even run pacman from a cereal box lol

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