Click Save theme if you wish to name your theme. To change themes, just choose a different theme in the main section or in the My Themes section. To delete a theme, right-click on the theme and click Delete. Then click Yes on the confirmation window. You cannot delete the active theme. If you don't like any of the themes on your PC and you are connected to the Internet, click Get more themes online and follow the directions.
A KeynoteSupport. You may have noticed that when your monitor remains idle for a certain period of time, a screen saver - or moving image - activates. It used to be harmful to monitors to sit idle with the same image on the screen.
This may still be a concern if you use an older CRT cathode ray tube monitor, but the flat screen and laptop monitors are not susceptible to this problem. Windows 7 comes with a very small selection of screen savers. First, open the Personalization window by right-clicking on a blank area of the desktop and clicking Personalization. Now click Screen Saver at the bottom of the window. The "Screen Saver Settings" window displays. Click the down arrow under Screen Saver and make your selection.
Click Preview to see the screen saver in action. You may also choose how many minutes should pass before Windows 7 displays the screen saver. If you choose 3D Text, click Settings. Type your text, font, rotation, and other options.
Click Display Settings to see the screen saver. When satisfied, click OK. You can ask Windows to cycle through photos you have stored in the Pictures folder or another folder by choosing "Windows Live Photo Gallery. If you dislike the sounds that Windows makes when you do certain things, you can change them or turn them off.
These changes are made from the Personalization window. The easiest way to get to the Personalization window is to right-click on a blank area of the desktop and click Personalization. Now click Sounds at the bottom of the window. The Sounds tab of the little "Sounds" window will display. If you selected a theme when choosing your desktop background, Windows will use the sounds that go with that theme. You may like the Landscape photos, but not the animal sounds that are part of the theme!
To turn off all sounds from the Windows 7 operating system, click the down arrow below "Sound Scheme" and click No Sounds. Before changing the sound for individual Program Events, choose a different Sound Scheme. Then click on each Program Event and click Test to hear the sound. If you are pleased with the theme, click Apply and click OK. Windows users should check out IconPackager , which can do a heck of a lot—but in my experience is a bit finicky, so be sure to back up your system first.
They aren't part of your "desktop," per se, but you probably spend a lot of time looking at the same web sites, and those are customizable too. Check out our guide to customizing your favorite sites with userscripts and user styles for more, and be sure to check out some of our site-specific guides too—like this one for Facebook or this one for Gmail. It's amazing how much better and better looking you can make your favorite sites with a few tweaks. Of course, a lot of these customizations will mean nothing if your desktop is covered in icons.
All it takes is a little organization : with an app like Fences or Desktop Groups you can not only make things more attractive, but keep everything organized by category, project, or whatever else you want, so you can reach everything easier. Tired of the boring grey window borders and traditional buttons in the corner? Linux users don't have as easy a one-size-fits-all method—as it depends a lot on your desktop environment and window manager —but sites like GNOME-look.
This one's a little more function than form not that we're complaining. Sometimes the best desktop customization comes in smaller tweaks that help you get things done better—and that's where our favorite system tweakers for Windows , OS X , and Linux come in. With the right tweaker in your arsenal, you can customize your operating system's built-in menus, settings, fonts, or anything else under the hood. Ever feel like your windows could make a snazzier entrance when you un-minimize them?
Ever get jealous of that awesome desktop cube Linux users have? Windows users can get in on the fun, too. Check out the video above to see it in action. We've talked about Windows updates in all previous articles, so no point reiterating the importance or the usage mode. However, I will focus a little on the customization. Unlike Windows XP, which clearly gives you the choice, the seemingly obvious choice of hiding specific updates does not exist in Windows 7.
Nothing much to show here, except the simple, obvious question, how to I change the homepage? Well, you can always do it the old fashioned way, or right-click on the address bar. We've talked about this in the Windows 7 lets you remove Internet Explorer 8 article.
This feature also existed in Windows XP, but it was more sort of a menu-polish than an actual Windows component management. In other words, you could, for instance, seemingly uninstall Internet Explorer 6, but it would remain there, except the shortcuts on the desktop and in the Start menu. In Windows 7, the Windows features utility actually deletes the binaries.
Please check the above article for more details. Windows Help in Windows 7 is simplified compared to older releases. It's still geeky by all standards, but there's some chance average users will manage. For example, I had some trouble with the folder views, but I did eventually figure the problem out by referring to the Help and Support.
I suggest you do give this facet of the operating system a chance, as it may actually be of some worth to you. It's written rather well, contains lots of pictures and is not that dreadful to search.
Windows 7 indexes files by default, a nasty habit if you ask me. I'm not in favor of indexing and prefer to have the feature turned off.
But it's up to you to decide whether you like it or not, need it or not. Indexing Options are accessible via the Control Panel. In this menu, you can define what locations you wish indexed, what types of files, etc. Windows 7 has some pretty icons, which come in all sizes, including colossal. You have a sort of a slider in right top corner of each folder view in the Windows Explorer, use it to experiment.
You can switch between various categories, like Tiles, Details, List, Content, and Thumbnails of all sorts of sizes. I've never found any merit in System Restore. It hogs space and never really works as expected.
Full system imaging is much preferred, especially since you have built-in tools now. I suggest you turn the System Restore off and save some space - or least reduce the disk space usage. As the name implies, this tool lets you transfer Windows data from one machine to another. You may also refer to it as a sort of a backup tool, although most people will use it only once. Not sure if you need it, but at least you now know it exists. There's a number of threads at Wilders Security forums, revolving around Windows 7 customization.
You may want to hop there and take a look. The threads are well written, with a plenty of screenshots. And that would be all for today. Hidden themes in Windows 7. This is a rather long article, I hope you've enjoyed it.
Configuring Windows 7 to behave is not that difficult, although it can be difficult sometimes, especially to veteran users, set in the ways. In some aspects, like the arrangement of user data and the sharing options, Windows 7 somewhat reminds of Linux, but it has more visual options, making the experience a little more confusing.
In others, items are slightly changed, forcing you to relearn the experience. The most troubling part for me was the arrangement of data on the disk, with the user profile and Libraries pointing to pretty much the same data only with different names. Overall, most of the stuff remains similar to older Windows releases. Eventually, you'll manage. Windows 7 is somewhat different.
Neither better, nor worse, simply different. Ergonomics has never been Microsoft's strong side. It has improved somewhat in Windows 7, but it still has a long way to go.
The worst are the choice of default theme and colors and the data structure on the disk. However, the improved Help ad Support and the useful Backup feature somewhat offset these.
For those of you who intend to use Windows 7, you now have a simple, practical customization guide that introduces the most important, most common features in the new operating system. I hope this article has cleared some of the confusion and fear that may have existed. Well, that's it.
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