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PostPosted: Mon Dec 14, 2015 12:28 pm 
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I finally gave Win8 a try again, needless to say, the pain was the same. I tested a couple start menus, but Classic Shell was it for me. But getting some nice buttons for the start was a bit of a chore. I found a few, then more that had no transparency and again Win8 let me down. SO I found Paint.net and went to work with modifying and making some new ones. This post is to share some of those, If you see one of your own work here, please claim your credit. Some titles were left intact when I downloaded and some were not. But for me, I made a set of Trekkie buttons, who doesn't love those. Three at a time, so hopefully I can get more shared




It is my hope that these will be handy for everyone, and in kind, you will all share back your goodies. Thanks to the coders at ClassicShell for the software and to all of the authors named and unnamed who have posted these images.


Legal notice: The Windows logo is a copyrighted trademark of Microsoft. No use of these items was made for profit, only used for education and experimentation.


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File comment: Trek Link
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File comment: Trek Chromotion. moves when used
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File comment: A composition piece from other images
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 14, 2015 12:31 pm 
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more Trekkies and an apple


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File comment: An apple Button I found and made transparent.
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File comment: A little more color to distinguish actions
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File comment: simple mod based on chromotion
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 14, 2015 12:35 pm 
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Some of my favs now, by other artists and or authors


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File comment: by sounddevil13
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File comment: by Kuratsuki4
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 14, 2015 12:39 pm 
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some windows basics by unknown authors


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File comment: this one I did a simple mod to my own taste, no author was listed
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File comment: floating transparent windows
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File comment: basic windows globe, everyone needs some of these
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 14, 2015 12:42 pm 
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more of this


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File comment: by stormfirerealm, made transparent and cleaned up the edges a bit
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File comment: may or may not have modded for transparent, but it is.
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File comment: the original as it was downloaded
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 14, 2015 12:46 pm 
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just a few more, Authors unknown to me


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File comment: Another one, just cool. Unknown Author
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File comment: the one that got me started, finally was able to resize for our menu. Again, not by myself and kudos to the author
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File comment: just kind of unique. Unknown author
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 14, 2015 12:49 pm 
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and finally...


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File comment: And one for the ladies. I think this one came as is, worth throwing out there.
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File comment: Swirl, never came with a name or author but it's tastey
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File comment: Superman by Rebelist
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 14, 2015 8:11 pm 
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The buttons here have transparency but the forum software only shows PNGs correctly. 32-bit BMPs (24-bit with 8-bit alpha transparency) are not shown correctly by the forum software, they show with a black background. However they work just fine in Classic Start Menu.

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