Isolating & Replacing the userpicture frame?

[John Bagnal]

Can anyone help me with this? I am trying to isolate and replace or remove the frame that surrounds the user picture on the start panel, yet retiain the user picture. The image example provided below was provided by Andreas' 3D User Pic App ( which currently does not support a 64 bit OS.) Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you all.

-John Bagnal  




System Info:

Windows Edition: Vista Home Premium SP1
Manufacturer: Hewlett Packard
Model: HP Pavillion dv5 Notebook PC (dv5-1004nr)
Processor: AMD Turion X2 Ultra Dual Core ZM-80 2.10 GHz
RAM: 4 GB Dual Chanel SDDR2
O/S: 64 Bit Operating System

[Spitzen]

I think, you have to change the explorer.exe to edit the user picture. It is located in the PNGFILE folder.

[John Bagnal]

That got it. I did the following.

Using Restorator 2007 I opened the explorer.exe from the windows main folder.

Extracted the frame image from the PNG folder("Can't miss it, it's the only image in the folder.").

Modified the PNG by simply deleting all visable information, and saving a copy.

Once I had a copy that was a blank version of the original .png, I renamed it 7013 ( the original .png 's name).

Reopened Restorator 2007.

Opened the explorer.exe again and navigated to the the same folder i previously navigated to. Right click on the original .png image and select assign to , and pointed to the replacement image.

Done.

See results below. Thanks Again