Windows System Rating

[Doel]

3am,

in this thread:
http://vistastylebuilder.com/forum/index.php?topic=1180.0

I notice that your rating only show: "System Rating is not available"
How do you disable the System Rating?

I hate that system rating index number, as it appears that it is a windows generated raster image and looks very jiggy if we replaced the panel color to a dark color. I also noticed Dave Senior has managed to overcome the problem ...
Perhaps Dave should also give a walk thru as to how he did it .. 

[Dave Senior]

For the score Background change the Bitmaps here:

C:\Windows\System32 > WinSATAPI.dll > Bitmap's  221 and 222 .

[Doel]

Yes Dave, I've got that bitmap 221 & 222 ...
Tried to replicate your image and save it with alpha channel,
only shows a white background with black outline and the index number looks very ugly ...


Managed to disable Experience index thru regedit.

[Dave Senior]

Lol,sorry,  I  misunderstood 

I  haven't done anything with the number,it's just how mine is.

[3am]

You mean why I don't have any numbers like here etc?:

http://vistastylebuilder.com/forum/index.php?topic=1242.0

Don't know. One day they just disappeared and never came back no matter what method I tried to return them

[Doel]

Yeah .. right ...
and also on your CPL-System only shows: "System Rating is not available"

Just in case you're interested in turning on/off of that Experience Rating, here is the link:
http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/124690-windows-experience-index-enable-disable.html

... and perhaps you can further explore the problem with the score number ugly looking .. 

[Dave Senior]

The  score number has something to do with having transparency in  the  image,as you can see mine's made up of solid  colors,no transparency  ,no bad looking number.

[Doel]

You might have that mixed up, at least in my case with transparency is much better than solid color.

The first two images use a red solid color and the last two use transparency ...

Thanks guys ...

[Dave Senior]

Here's the image I use  with a 1px transparent border,all messed up.
Also one using a red  solid color    .

[Doel]

Here is my bitmap ... so you can test it ...
Appreciate if you can also post the one that you're using ... I like it better than mine 

[JoCe-from-France]

I come 4 month later....
thanks to have made available your work on this.

I have noticed that, with a totally black alpha layer (and a "hex color"=44, 45, 45):
-the upper left pixel gives the shadow color of the score
-the adjacent pixel immediately on the right is the transparent color. But this color, if present under the score number, will show up through the antialiasing pixels!

illustration :

Here the shadow and the transparent color are the same (red) making the shadow transparent everywhere BUT through the anti-aliasing of the score.