How would one edit explorer.exe to display backgrounds win 10

Ok hello people i'm trying to is make a full 3rd person theme for win 10 i got a win 8 theme and with a lot of messing around i got some of the anime stuff to show up
Like so :

but i cant get explorer to display background witch i really want to do as im creating my own full theme but getting it to work on windows 10 is hard due to the fact explorer.exe is quite a big file and im not sure how people have patched it in the past but trying to get it to display this

example

want to be one of the first to fully theme 10 just not sure what to do to explorer.exe to get it to do it

thanks in advance elfenliedtopfan5

why are you trying to alter the executable instead of just swapping out the tempfile?

That being said, just do it through the commandline. here's an example BAT

Code:

@echo off reg add "HKCUcontrol paneldesktop" /v wallpaper /t REG_SZ /d "" /f  reg add "HKCUcontrol paneldesktop" /v wallpaper /t REG_SZ /d "C:[LOCATION OF WALLPAPER HERE]" /f  reg delete "HKCUSoftwareMicrosoftInternet ExplorerDesktopGeneral" /v WallpaperStyle /f reg add "HKCUcontrol paneldesktop" /v WallpaperStyle /t REG_SZ /d 2 /f RUNDLL32.EXE user32.dll,UpdatePerUserSystemParameters  exit

why are you trying to alter the executable instead of just swapping out the tempfile?

He's not talking about the desktop wallpaper. He's talking about backgrounds in the File Explorer windows.

He's not talking about the desktop wallpaper. He's talking about backgrounds in the File Explorer windows.

Ah. I think you used to be able to do that in XP's explorer settings, not sure if you can still or not.

Long ago, I used to hack into Windows 3.1-WFW3.11's command.com via Norton DiskEditor to alter some of its "display comments." The success is in staying within the byte-count allocated to each "comment." I'm not sure if present-day disk cluster/sector editors can pull that off successfully within explorer.exe -- make sure you have restorable OS imagesbefore trying same.

A downside to editing the Windows operating system files is that the license agreement the user has to accept during installation may prevent changing the software, could be flat-out illegal.

A downside to editing the Windows operating system files is that the license agreement the user has to accept during installation may prevent changing the software, could be flat-out illegal.

I guess that would make myself and the hundreds of thousands of people that run and make custom Windows themes criminals then ??

On the serious side, you used to be able to do it with third party software up until and including Windows Vista, after that MS changed the code and to the best of my knowledge I haven't seen anyone be able to do it after that.

As I remember in Windows XP you need to go to the hidden file for each folder it would be a desktop.ini file which you open with notebook and make a referce to a background picture of a specific color. I did this on Win 8 but there is no clue as to what controls the background color. I did find this link that might help you:

This is from somebody else:

When I first loaded Win 8 this was driving me nuts, too.
I like to set the background color of my windows to something other than white. It is much easier on the eyes.
So I did a little digging in the registry.
The settings are actually much nicer in Win 8 than in Win 7. I'm surprised no one has written a tool for this yet.
In windows 7 the colors are located in a rather obscure registry key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USERControl PanelAppearanceNew SchemesCurrent Settings SaveAllSizes