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[TcM]

Ok so I was playing around with VB trying to make a joke program ( fake virus ) and as I dont wanted my prog to be visible in the Task Manager I named my EXE as 'svchost.exe' and you know what? Well Xp has that funny Themes and whn I named my EXE as 'svchost.exe' the prog came without and Themes!!!!!! like win 98 and 95!! I tought that this was a VB bug or so, but then I started renaming other EXE's and when I renamed them to 'svchost.exe' they all came without Theme! look below this is the installation of Ares:-



For now its ok but when I renamed it to 'svchost.exe' it came like this without themes or so:-



Lol! and I tried this on 2 PC's! with the same result! Anyone has a good theory/explanation about this? lol!

[Blaze]

I'm not sure what you are talking about. That looks like the standard theme. I'm lost.

[TcM]

Yeah lol, Im saying that if you rename ANY EXE file to 'svchost.exe' it will open in the standard theme! wihout that fancy themes!

[DevilsCharm]

I see. Does that happen when you name the files other names, say, stdhost.exe?

[TcM]

Nope, Try it, it will not change! just svchost.exe! and im not sure if there was another name but i forgot it!

[DevilsCharm]

Well, how did you figure out about this little bug? I know if I was naming files I would not have thought of that. I'm eager to know how you did it.

[TcM]

I told that in my first post! I was trying to make a joke program ( fake virus ) in VB So I wanted that my prog will not be invisible so I made the task invisible from the Application section of the TaskManager but I couldnt hide it from the Processes section of the Task manager so knowing that XP used several processes called svchost.exe, I tought of renaming my exe file ( after compiled my VB project to exe ) with the name of svchost.exe, so that the user will not recognise the process! lol and after that I opened the program ( I was still testing it ) and I saw that it popped up with the classical theme!!! and so I tought is this an XP bug or a VB bug? so I decided to rename several other exe's( that were not made with VB ) to the name of svchost.exe and they ALL came up with the Classical theme! So lol I found an XP Bug!!

[DevilsCharm]

Oh sorry, I forgot about that part. Well, if you find any other file names, make sure to tell me, because I have absolutely no use for it but would like to know anyway.

[TcM]

Yeah lol neither me! I dont care if its classical theme or not, but lol its cool to have found an XP bug! its a big thing lol!!