- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ADDING 256 COLORS TO SYSTRAY - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - compiled by: paranoidxe complete credit goes to: DR.HOIBY (www.dr-hoiby.com) NOTE: THIS ONLY COVERS AMERICAN VERSIONS OF WINDOWS. NOTE: in order for this information to be useful you need a hex editor, in which you use it on your explorer.exe located usually in C:\Windows or C:\WINNT. Hackman recommended: http://www.technologismiki.com/en/index-h.html - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - USING HACKMAN TO FIND OFFSETS... - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ::this is based on 7.01:: launch hackman, open explorer.exe press ctrl + j, enter the offset to go to...don't bother to include the 0x in front of the offset. (i.e. 0x0219 would be just 0219) [WINDOWS 95 OEM] go to the following offsets: 0x0C496 - change 01 to 11 0x0E6CF - change 01 to 11 0x1E86F - change 01 to 11 [WINDOWS 95 OEM SERVICE PACK 1] go to the following offsets: 0x37C2 - change 01 to 11 [WINDOWS 95 OEM SERVICE PACK 2] go to the following offsets: 0x3895 - change 01 to 11 [WINDOWS 98 SECOND EDITION] go to the following offsets: 0x4B6B - change 01 to 11 0xB4D2 - change 01 to 11 [WINDOWS 2000 GOLD 5.0.2920.0 EXPLORER VERSION] go to the following offsets: 0x19E5 - change FF 74 24 18 to 6A 11 90 90 [WINDOWS 2000 GOLD 5.0.3103.1000 EXPLORER VERSION] go to the following offsets: 0xCFA3 - change 01 to 11 0x1DE3 - change 01 to 11 0x14749 - change 01 to 11 0x1475A - change 01 to 11 [WINDOWS 2000 SERVICE PACK 1] go to the following offsets: 0x1D51 - change FF 74 24 18 to 6A 11 90 90 [WINDOWS 2000 SERVICE PACK 2] go to the following offsets: 0x01DDB - change 01 to 11 0x0CFD3 - change 01 to 11 0x0147E9 - change 01 to 11 0x0147FA - change 01 to 11 [WINDOWS 2000 SERVICE PACK 3] go to the following offsets: 0x01CD6 - change 01 to 11 0x0D7DC - change 01 to 11 0x14CE1 - change 01 to 11 0x14CF2 - change 01 to 11 [WINDOWS 2000 Service Pack 4] go to the following offsets: 0x088E6 - change 01 to 11 0x14E1D - change 01 to 11 0x14E2E - change 01 to 11