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Windows tools Ave's 3D UserPic

Author : Ave

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What is Ave's 3D Userpic


In the old longhorn 4xxx days, the startmenu user picture was more animated as it was today. Today, we get a cheap alpha-fading effect when you hover over an item: the user picture simply blends with the icon for a while.
Back in the days, the user picture was actually rotating when you had the start menu opened. This application tries to achieve that effect.
Features
What's new?
+ stabilized the thing (less crashes)

+ Now changes the icon also when you hover over other startmenu items! (took me a morning of windbg'ing)
+ some extra rendering settings

Todo
+ Cooler and more longhorn-esque animation DONE thx to bryant
+ Add support for the browse-pane (the pane you get when you start search-typing)

Known problems
+ some icons render with a smaller size. This is a limitation of the system and in my opinion a "bug". IImageList2::GetOriginalSize returns E_NOTIMPL, which means I cannot get the original icon size since MS programmers did not implement that behaviour (yet). FIXED with a workaround

Beware!
This application injects code into explorer.exe, hooks into the startmenu windows and also uses internal data-structures which may result in extra crashes. Therefore, usage is on own risk.
System Requirements
Windows Vista
 

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