Editing Explorer.exe

i was wondering how i can edit explorer.exe without it corrupting?

im trying 2 edit a heap of the Menu's, Dialog's and String Table's (as reshacker puts it), to sumfin a litte more OSXish. I started editing the shell32 resources, and that hasnt been a problem, but explorer.exe is really pissin me off

i can change things without a problem, but when i save it, the copy becomes corrupt.

i think Iceman or flyakite are the guys 4 this since they've done it b4, but if anybody else knows it would b greatly appreciated.

Thanx in advance

-The Unknown

#25319

I don't know why it happens... but it happened to me during many file saves. What I did was I would make maybe 5-10 changes, save it, open it back up in ResHacker and click on one type of resource in each folder. Like, open up the dialogs portion, and click one resource, if it doesn't give any corruption warnings, then you're good. Then I make a copy of it and keep it next to the one I'm editing. Then keep editing the original, that way, if at some point it doesn't work, you at least have the saved a good copy with all the progress you made up until that point.

Hope that made sense.

#25324

makes scense... hopefully it will fix the problem. when i get home ill try it out and let u know

#25327

what program are you using to edit the file?

#25346

reshacker what else

#25420