Skinning your Windows Explorer background

yep use this feature for long time..
thanks for head up! :HOT:

IS there anyway that you can explain how to do this! I GO INTO SKIN STUDIO and leave withing 5 minutes because i know i will never understand it? Its to confusing. which section is this under and where to go? Do you edit the skin you are using? I just dont know what or how? Please help becuase this is something i have always wondered why wb skinners didnt do. Why should it be white? Just anyway HELP?

Are you sure you were using Skinstudio 6 and not version 5? Version 5 was confusing and I never understood it neither. Version 6 is way easier to understand than the previous one. In version 6, after you either open a skin or create a new one, this menu should show up. Click on the "Backgrounds" button on the left pane and a few options should show up, one of them being an Explorer Background image. Click on the Explorer Background and then browse for an image (make sure that it is either a BMP or PNG file. Unfortunately, version 6 expired on my PC, so I can't show you all the details. I hope this helps. :HOT: 

Actually, this does not work in XP. I have been trying since long time also posted a thread regarding this issue. Based on your screen shot it seems that you are using vista, have you really tried on XP? If it worked on XP, can you please let me how you configured it?

Thanks a lot!
Zabak

How about the "system tasks", "Other Places" and "Details" drop down window backgrounds? John

No responce to if it works on windows xp? I really would like to know? And i just startd useing skin stud 6. How to do?

I use WindowBlinds, and it at least recolored my backgrounds in explorer and whatnot in XP. It didn't apply an image, though, just an soldid color.

WB has Explorer Background options now

I had used Skin Studio before to change the windows explorer background from white to gray for any skin I wanted. Now I don't seem to remember how I did it. Can you post with an explanation on how you did it? I just want the solid color choice, not an image, like you said you where able to do. I have the most up-to-date version of window blinds and skin studio 6 professional as of June 30, 2008. Thx in advance.

SKS6 has 4 images for the explorer backgrounds. 2 for normal and 2 for transparency. If the Backgrounds are .png (transparent) then you can have transparent backgrounds in many other areas of the skin.

As far as I know, Explorer Backgrounds in XP don't work but I am not sure on that.

In the Change skin colors section go to the dropdown box at top and pick "show me system defined colors" option... then change windows background color. This will let u set any solid color.

 ;p 

XP explorer backgrounds do work as long as common tasks are showing,if not,nothing will happen.Have tried to skin common tasks as well ,now only need to skin background,see pic-

You need to go to Backgrounds-edit explorer background bitmaps,make sure active(or inactive) whichever you want is selected.Select arrow next to edit image for quick import of whatever file you want,should work hopefully(for images as windows backgrounds)

As you can see the controls are in XP specific-edit shell style bars and arrows,to skin common task area.
Pic used was Santa Fe Stucco in windows directory,SKS6 Also used.

Apologies to Night Train.



To change skin colours go to SKS6-change skin colours,in dropdown menu make sure show skin defined skin colours are showing,then select window background and change the colour.(for colours as windows backgrounds)
Save changes and you might have to change to windows classic folders in folder options to get it to work.

Thank you VERY much! It was the "dropdown box" section I did not click on. I was unaware of it. This is exactly what I wanted! Thank you for your help and your time spent reading and replying to my query.

Thanks to everyone in this thread for taking the time to reply.

I can change color explorer background in skinstudio but I can't add picture to explorer background in Window Xp. why ??? Please tell me.

Windowpaper Xp will do this for any folder and you can have a different picture for each folder. It is free and clean, if you would like to try it here is the link:WWW Link

Thank you Frankief but it only change folder, not explorer background.

Okay, so you lost me! What are you referring to as explorer background. It changes the backgound of the folders to any picture you like and I can only assume that is what explorer backgrounds are as that is what Windowblinds changes when you enable explorer backgounds!

where is that link at VistArtXPosed?

cos i don't see alink at the bottom of your article...

Thanks alot

timalan

"External Link" at top of post

Explorer skinning in WB has never worked for me on two different computers, one running Windows XP and one Vista.  I had been using Skin Studio 6 to skin my explorer backgrounds, but after I installed WB 7 on my Vista machine, even Skin Studio is unable to apply explorer backgrounds, and of course, WB can't skin my explorer backgrounds either.

Here's the text on the "About Window Blinds" tab.

Your computer has a Windows Experience Index base score of 3.7
Your Windows Graphics Experience score is 3.7

WindowBlinds version : WindowBlinds 7.0 (build 230 x86 - Vista Edition)

WindowBlinds is installed correctly on this PC
WindowBlinds appears to be activated on this PC
(Acer V223W ) 1 is attached to NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS  
(ACER X223W ) 2 is attached to NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS  

Wblind.dll         2009/11/16 11:43:20
Wbsrv.dll         2009/11/12 08:19:07
SevenConfig.exe         2009/11/12 10:16:53
Wbload.exe         2009/11/06 11:44:12
Wbhelp.dll         2009/03/24 15:04:07
Tray.dll              2009/10/21 08:13:19
Wbload.dll              2009/09/25 07:41:28
Screen.exe         2009/11/07 11:39:26