Now including also a tutorial, simmilar with those from V.2 and V.3 and a more detailed tutorial that was made by iHackit ([link]) as a support to this work. For those who have problems understanding this and who may want a more detailed instructions to make it work now they have an alternative so i want to thank him for that !!
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Here is an animated ExplorerFrame for Windows 7 (32bit and 64 bit) i made ..It works perfectly with Windows 7 SP1 too just replace those files as below :
for 32 and 64 bit bit users :
replace old file in system32 folder of windows directory..
dont forget before to take ownership of the old file,rename it to explorerframe.dll.bak and make the replace with the new file..
After this you have 2 options to see the animations (choose any of them you want) :
(1) run task manager, stop the process of windows explorer,make a new task,write explorer and hit enter or (2)go to start menu,run command and write "TSKILL EXPLORER" without the "" and hit enter..this will restart windows explorer too.
Animations can be shown on the below things :
- windows explorer icons (any preview type selected it has a different animation style) - shell texts -start menu search box (found items fall from the top of the start menu everytime u do a search)
Well its the theme im using buddy..this is what it makes likes this the taskbar..the creator though of this theme and many others got disappeared, he closed his accounts everywhere and the theme just got disappeared..its no more avavailble unfortunately..
It's the Midnight Glass theme that is not available anymore on the web since the owner removed it and unfortunately i dont have it either to send it to you.
I used to have a backup but unfortunately i broke my external HDD since then. It's been some years so the only chance for finding this theme is perhaps with some good googling.
Yeap. if you check the comments you ll see that i gave links for this theme. The links were linking to the author's profile here on da that was closed so all the links are dead. I used to have it those days as a backup so i also uploaded it to megaupload and gave out some links. Megaupload was closed too..so again all these links are dead. After that i also broke my hdd and i lost that file. I 'm not using either Windows 7 anymore to retrieve it so bad luck. If you make a google search with the name i gave you you ll see images of this theme in google's cache that will link to it but the links wont work. If you are lucky someone to have it and give it to you then it would be awesome or else you can try to make a similar one or use a similar one..