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August 24, 2010
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System Requirements
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Windows 7 x86 or Windows 7 x64
with default shell (i.e. Windows Explorer.)

Note: not tested on Windows Server 2008 R2.

Features
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1. Change your start orb WITHOUT changing explorer.exe. This prevents unnecessary UAC prompts.
2. Choose different start orb for each user.
3. DPI-aware.

Install/Uninstall Guide
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Uninstall of version 1.0: run the loader (renamed to explorer.exe), press 'Unload' button, and delete it. Current version is not compatible with ver. 1.0, so uninstall old loader before using current release.

Install of version 1.1: run the loader (w7soldr.exe in the zip, and you can rename it as you want), check 'Options' > 'Enable start orb loader' and press 'Save changes' button. Read usage section for details.

Uninstall of version 1.1: run the loader, uncheck 'Options' > 'Enable start orb loader', uncheck 'Options' > 'Shell integration' and press 'Save changes' button. This will restore all changes done to your system. Delete the loader then you're done.

Summary of Usage (Check details in readme.txt!)
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1. Extract w7soldr.exe and run w7soldr.exe.
2. Check 'Options' > 'Enable start orb loader'.
3. Press 'Browse' button to choose the location that contains start orbs you want to use.
4. Choose a start orb you want to use.
5. Press 'Save changes' button to save changes.

* Checking 'Options' > 'Shell integration' appends a menu item labed 'Start orb' on the context menu of desktop background.

* .resources files are language files. If there's no .resources files, English is displayed by default. See Localization Guide for details.
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Mood: Love ~MicroGear Oct 28, 2010
Hello!
Since the app doesn't effect explorer.exe, is it able to show 106x318 orb in 100% DPI? It is should be cool!
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Mood: Love ~Ahinigami Oct 9, 2010
Best of its kind.
Definitely a must for those who wish to change start orb appearance.

Not too sure if here is a suitable place to report a bug where the start orb is not changing.
I used litestep as an alternative shell previously so it leaves a certain reg entry that supposedly conflict with this app. Not sure if it's only my own problem. After checking my own winlogon reg entry with another windows 7, there are 2 extra line in my reg entry as shown below. After removing these 2 extra entry, this application worked perfectly.

[HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-2413146669-2555038131-3526822026-1000\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon]
"ParseAutoexec"="1"
"Shell"="explorer.exe" (I manually change this entry to "c:\\windows\\explorer.exe" but still not working, the only one working is to completely delete the reg entry ... not too sure parseautoexec since I deleted both of it together)
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