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Vista tree view: disabling fade-out of tree nodes

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Mar 15, 20262444 views
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When using a tree view (e.g. the folders list in Explorer), there are little triangles next to each node which contains sub-nodes. Unfortunately, they fade out as soon as one leaves the tree view with the mouse. This is very annoying, because one can't see anymore which folders contain sub-nodes as…

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Fix for: Vista tree view: disabling fade-out of tree nodes

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I checked aero.msstyles (the file which contains all the visual resources) and it seems that treeview expander glyphs are resource ids #804-812. I was hoping to find a transparent resource or zone which might have hold a non-hovered, transparent ver…

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