Customized Desktop

Theodore Woodward — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 07:51:21 +0000

Hi everyone, just wanted to share my customized desktop with you, and show you what I used:

Desktop

Here are the ingredients:

Sidebar – Google desktop (Doubles as app launcher)

Wallpaper – One of Interfacelift’s beautiful backgrounds.

Trash

The recycle bin has been renamed to “trash”. This can be done with a tutorial from this site.

I dislike Xp default icons, so I have used the tango icons, taken from gnome. An installer can be found here

To use cutom visual styles, you will need uxtheme.dll patcher. The visual style you see above is the muin visual style

Thats pretty much all of my customization covered, but please comment on what you use (Wallpapers, visual styles, third party desktop apps, etc)

Thanks!

Define your own custom key combo

Theodore Woodward — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 16:45:00 +0000

A little while ago, I thought of the uses a custom key combo would have. I knew of applications that did this for you (commercial and free), but wanted to do it using only windows. This is partly because I don’t want lots of applications for small jobs, and also because the computer in question was very slow and I didn’t want to bog it down even more.

Anyway, to cut a long story short I managed, so I’ll share with you:

•Right click anywhere inside a folder, and select new – short cut.

•go through the wizard, and select whatever you want to launch

•once the wizard is finished, right click on the short cut, and go properties.

•From here you will see many options available to you – one of which is the “”key combination”" option.

•Use whatever you want here, but make sure that it isn’t already in use by windows or some other application (control + alt + a letter is good )

That short cut can be used with a key combo like a built in feature of windows. A useful short cut to make is one pointing to the shut-down executable.

If any of you have any interesting tips like this you would like to share, then please do with the comments form.

(Wrote this on my blackberry/crackberry!)

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Customized Desktop

Define your own custom key combo