Get Windows 7 like Progress Dialog Box In Xp

Windows 7 have a very nice and much different progress dialog box, It is very similar to vista one which has nice AVIs. We can get the similar one in xp by manual method there are some transformation pack from which you can get the similar one but as you all know i hate 3rd party softwares because they slow down your machine. See the below screen shot because you gonna get like this after this trick.

Isnt it nice? So follow these steps to get this:-

  • First Download AVIs, a BITMAP, and a Code.txt file from HERE
  • In the downloaded rar file, unrar it, you will get 3 AVIs, 1 BITMAP. and a CODE.txt file
  • Open “%windirSystem32Shell32.dll” file in Resource Hacker (Resource Hacker Can be found in RECOMMENDED section)
  • Now navigate to Dialog -> 1020 -> 1033
  • Now you have to replace the existing code in right-side pane with the code present in downloaded text file
  • Now press COMPILE SCRIPT button
  • Now add the downloaded BITMAP for this:-
  1. click on Action -> Add a new resource and then click on Open file with new resource
  2. Select the downloaded BMP file and click on Open. Now in Resource Name enter 404 and in Resource Language enter 1033 and click on Add Resource. its done
  • Now we have to add AVIs in it for this:-
  1. Click onΒ  ACTION => REPLACE OTHER RESOURCE click on OPEN FILE WITH NEW RESOURCE
  2. Select the downloaded Avi 160
  3. Then in Resource type write AVI, in Resource Name write 160, In Resource language write 1033,

Just replace other Avi’s in the same manner in the following way:- AVI -> 161 ->1033 with 161.avi AVI -> 162 ->1033 with 162.avi AVI -> 163 ->1033 with 162.avi AVI -> 164 ->1033 with 162.avi That’s it Restart your computer and check it. If you have any problem then please let me know.

Rahul Sharma

Rahul Sharma is a personal technology columnist and founder of TechnoArea, TroubleFixing & BloggingMayor He is a MBA guy by education and technology columnist by passion. He write's on some popular online tech magazines also.

10 thoughts on “Get Windows 7 like Progress Dialog Box In Xp

  • November 15, 2010 at 9:15 am
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    not working
    every time when i restart the settings get to default
    please give some other way

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  • November 15, 2010 at 9:15 am
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    not working
    every time when i restart the settings get to default
    please give some other way

    Reply
  • November 15, 2010 at 6:33 pm
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    You need to patch some of your Windows xp files to get this trick works.
    You need to these file UXTheme Patcher and Windows File Protection (WFP) Switcher to patch
    both these can be found in Recommended section

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  • November 15, 2010 at 6:33 pm
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    You need to patch some of your Windows xp files to get this trick works.
    You need to these file UXTheme Patcher and Windows File Protection (WFP) Switcher to patch
    both these can be found in Recommended section

    Reply
  • May 6, 2011 at 6:09 am
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    do i save it or just exit immediately ?

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  • May 6, 2011 at 6:09 am
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    do i save it or just exit immediately ?

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  • October 22, 2012 at 5:42 pm
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    bro my taskbar tabs have become short but the dialog box didn’t came

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