Use HxD's Find feature to search for 'wingdings' as shown below. Now, the screensaver needs an additional change to force it to use the Webdings font instead of Wingdings. This new value is 85 - hex value of the alien character. To illustrate this procedure, I chose the alien character, found in the Webdings font.īesides, nothing can fly through outer space quite like an alien.Īs with the smiley face modification, we will again change the Windows logo character FFh value to something new. Modifying this single byte changed Flying Windows to display smiley faces - as this photo illustrates: Taking it to the next levelĬhanging the Flying Windows screensaver to use a different Wingdings character is simple once you know where to make the change - but what if a person wished to use a character from an entirely different font? This too can be easily accomplished - albeit with a little more use of a hex editor. Finally, I found the address - 1E6C - that enabled me to transform Flying Windows to Flying Smiley Faces: In various addresses that appeared relevant, I changed FF hex values to 4A, saving and testing every change independently, reverting back to FFh if the change had no effect. Turning to HxD, I opened the Flying Windows.scr file saved on the USB stick. So based on this assumption - back again on a Windows 10 box - I opened Character Map, selected Wingdings and settled on the smiley face character, remembering its hex code value of 4A. I guessed it should then be theoretically possible to change this supposed character to another character found in the Wingdings font set.

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