The Unofficial Star Trek Computer Theme author: Gene W. Michelsen e-mail: SHIndustries@Skantech.com 4:03 PM 5/25/96 This is a different kind of Star Trek theme for Windows 95. It was made totally around the computer featured on Star Trek. The icons are actually 32 X 32 BMP files renamed to ICO files. Using a paint program it is easy to resize a graphic to the right size. The sound files have been taken from various sources, but mostly the best web site I've seen for Star Trek (Thanks to Rob Chen) along with the wallpaper and graphics for the icons, from Halodeck 3: http://www.starbase21.com/holodeck3/ Also, thanks to Jean Gionet and the help he has readily availible about creating themes. You can find his web page at: http://www.cyberbeach.net/~gionet/win95/themes/ To install simply extract all the files to a temorary folder and run the INSTALL.BAT file. It will place all the files in a folder named Star Trek Computer. Run the batch and it will show you the parameters. This seems to be the safest way to install a theme. It also makes it very easy to get rid of. That is if you feel the need! Just delete the entire folder. Thanks to: Derek (Lanzer) Liu for the slightly modified "install.bat" file of which I liberally five fingered the code and modified myself! Here is a list of files you need for the theme: Star Trek Computer.jpg Star Trek Computer (High Color).Theme *.ico (All files with the ico suffix) *.cur (All files with the cur suffix) *.ani (All files with the ani suffix) *.wav (All files with the wav suffix) Computer new mail.wav Computer new mail.wav - I use for New Mail Notification. If you installed Exchange then you should have this sound option. I installed Exchange and then took it out... It left the sound option behind. This works with MS Internet Mail & Newsreader beta program that just came out. For some reason this will not self install in the theme. You will need to do it manually from the Sounds option in Control Panel. Place each icon on your desktop in places that make it look like they belong there. If your icons snap back to the side, you have the automatic placement turn on. Simply right click anywhere in a free area on the desktop and select Arrange Icons/Automatic (if it's checked). Then arrange the icons the way you want. The file Internet.ico I have assigned to my web browser. I use MS Internet Explorer and I used the new Powertoy from Microsoft Tweak UI to turn off the Explore the Internet icon on my destop. I then made a shortcut to Internet Explorer on my desktop renamed it and changed the icon by right clicking it and selecting Poperties/Shortcut/Change Icon. I have also made Logo screens for startup and shutdown. These will install also with the batch file and your present logos will be saved with a bak extension. The startup one (Logo.sys) is not animated, but to see how this is done check out Karl McMurdo's web page: http://www.nucleus.com/~kmcmurdo/win95logo.html He has a slew of animated logo screens there and instructions on how to make your own. I have included info five fingered from his page that tells you how to install the logo.sys manualy. The text file is called "Logo Install.txt". To install the other two simply do the same things to the files Logos.sys and Logow.sys in the Windows folder. After running Install.bat, or if you copied all the files by hand because you don't trust me to get them into there proper places (Hey, I'd be afraid too! But, I have checked this on my computer and it works for me!) You can setup the theme by going to the Desktop Themes menu in Control Panel and clicking on the down arrow next to the Theme box. Scroll down to Star Trek Computer (High Color).Theme and click it. The Install.bat file will put all the theme stuff in C:\Program Files\Plus!\Themes\Star Trek Computer if you have these folders, or C:\Windows\Star Trek Computer if you don't. I know that some of you decided to place Plus! in some other place so this will give you more flexability. The theme is forgiving and will find where you have setup your files (at least that has been my experiance). It reads the Windows settings to find your files in the folders you assigned to Plus! and Windows. I have changed the wallpaper to a JPEG (and I know this will annoy some) to keep the Zip file smaller. The last one I made was 2.8 meg! Also, if any of you coders out there would like to try your hand at a screen saver... I had this idea of a the computer screen animating... Look for my ReBoot! theme at: http://www.inwap.com/reboot.html ...It was my first. Mine is 'Theme 01'. If you have any comments or suggestions please email me at: SHIndustries@Skantech.com Enjoy! Gene W. Michelsen --- Legalese... Star Trek and all of it's asossiated stuff is owned by Paramont.