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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!

Hi everyone,

I personally dislike the default look of the windows command prompt, so have customized it. Here is how to customize the windows command prompt:

There are two ways of doing this; the first only customizes it for this session and current command prompt, the second will make all command prompts as you specify. Here are the two ways:

First way (only this command prompt)

Open a command window in whatever way you like.(I use windows key + r) now right click the title bar or press the icon on the far top left of the window. Click properties, from here you can change most aspects of the current window.

Go to colours to change the colours of the window (surprise, surprise!) You can also customize the font – in a separate tab.

To change all command prompts like this, click the defaults option on the menu instead of the properties option.

Hope this helps in your endless quest to customize every aspect of windows!