Windows Animations

[Omkar™ 0]

Ever wondered while copying GBs of data from one place to another on Windows, staring at the file copy animation dialog (which actually give newbies the 'feel' of copying ~ for Xperts, the HDD LED is good enough! ) - and at other times, when you've added a new disk drive (USB Mass storage, or such sort) when on slower systems, opening My Computer shows that (darn) 'Searching for items' animation?

 

Well I was thinking of seeing something better than that puffed-up yellow torch looking around for items in there! Anyone having eXplored Windows® directory structure could tell me where Windows® keeps these animations? And what type are they? AVI (Sure hope so!) I'd like to spice up the visuals and replace these with some (more) geek animations... Having customized everything else (tight from the cursor to Window Title Bars) ~ this is the only thing that somehow 'doesn't fit in'...

 

I wonder if this is possible? If you do look into it, please let us know!

[ethergeek 0]

Ever wondered while copying GBs of data from one place to another on Windows, staring at the file copy animation dialog (which actually give newbies the 'feel' of copying ~ for Xperts, the HDD LED is good enough! ) - and at other times, when you've added a new disk drive (USB Mass storage, or such sort) when on slower systems, opening My Computer shows that (darn) 'Searching for items' animation?

 

Well I was thinking of seeing something better than that puffed-up yellow torch looking around for items in there! Anyone having eXplored WindowsÂŽ directory structure could tell me where WindowsÂŽ keeps these animations? And what type are they? AVI (Sure hope so!) I'd like to spice up the visuals and replace these with some (more) geek animations... Having customized everything else (tight from the cursor to Window Title Bars) ~ this is the only thing that somehow 'doesn't fit in'...

 

I wonder if this is possible? If you do look into it, please let us know!

I'm pretty sure the file copy animations are stored as resources inside the explorer.exe or user32.dll binaries themselves. You can replace them via dll-hooking, which is what Windowblinds does.

 

As for me, the scrolling list of files from xcopy is good enough animation for me

[xboxrulz1405241485 0]

I'm sure it's a live render via some DLL file and not some like AVI files. I don't actually mind the default animations. Hell, as long as my files get copied, I'm happy. Else, I'll have to crack open DOS (which is hellish, I rather do UNIX).xboxrulz

[Quatrux 4]

I also wanted to change much of that stuff, to change icons and etc. So years ago I were using WindowsBlinds, but I don't really use it today, as I don't care for them as I used to. ;]

[wutske 0]

You might try Xpize ( http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ ), it replaces the 'old' icons by newer ones. If you're lucky, it replaces your animation by something you like .

[iGuest 3]

Wow your ALL wrong. %windir%system32Shell32.dll using res hacker you'll see the AVI resources, some people have replaced them with "blank" AVI's (transparent bmp's or png's) and just used really cool progress bars.so what did you have in mind?-delta9

[iGuest 3]

Get resource hacker ... its free. you can replace and export icons, avi files and much moreresource hacker http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

[polarysekt 0]

Get resource hacker ... its free. you can replace and export icons, avi files and much more

 

resource hacker

http://www.angusj.com/resourcehacker/

 

-delta9

wow... definately seems easier than cracking open an installation of MSVC++ : )

 

 

by the way... i checked it out... and you helped me find something i've been looking for recently...

 

XN Resource Editor

http://www.wilsonc.demon.co.uk/d10resourceeditor.htm

 

 

now i can easily use MSVC++ Express 2008 ... not that i develop anything for windows really.... but interesting...

Edited December 5, 2007 by polarysekt (see edit history)