Classic Shell: Forum

So with the new textured taskbars, I'm doing my best to recreate the aesthetics of Vista and 7 for my 10 PC, but I'm missing the most important component. The texture for the aero glass.
Is there any way to extract the file from Windows? I have an old Vista computer lying around that I was hoping to get the source files from. I've tried looking around the internet and there's no good, transparent version of the original glass anywhere that I can use.

It is most likely an image resource in the aero.msstyles file.

Thank you, do you know how I might be able to extract the contents of it?

You will need some sort of resource editor, like Resource Hacker for example.

Thanks again! It took a while to find the exact file, but I got it! Now I have a pretty convincing Windows 7 taskbar.


Doesn't work too well with bright colors though.

Gather you are talking about the taskbar buttons?
In case you did not see it yet, there is a taskbar section that started up :

viewforum.php?f=21

Some people have tried with original and modded images to get that look as well, me included.

Oh no, the glass effect just doesn't appear very well on bright colors. I'll get a picture a little later!