Do you customize OS appearance?

[Deleted member 2913]

Do you customize OS appearance like taskbar on top, auto-hide taskbar, icon size, light/dark theme, etc...?

Please mention your OS & appearance customization.

 

[Logethica]

I use the smaller taskbar buttons, but keep the taskbar on the bottom of the screen..
I also use the smaller sized desktop Icons, and rename/edit some of the Icon names...(like removing the word "Free")
I am on Windows 10 and this is what My Desktop looks like

 

[SHvFl]

I use the smaller taskbar buttons, but keep the taskbar on the bottom of the screen..
I also use the smaller sized desktop Icons, and rename/edit some of the Icon names...(like removing the word "Free")
I am on Windows 10 and this is what My Desktop looks like

Do exactly the same minus the desktop icons.

 

[juhful]

I auto hide the taskbar, use dark theme, my laptop is often connected to a 55" 4k TV so I increase icon size or they are tiny lol, I also use rainmeter for adding some widgets. Heres my current desktop

 

[DardiM]

Hi,
I customize Windows 10 appearance with integrated options only
- Task bar at the top - small size
- Desktop : some few icons on the top left and bottom right - small size
- most important apps on the start menu
- The wallpaper of my Desktop is a random image from mainly the 120 Wallpapers HD pack, updated every minutes (27 inch Screen)

 

[Venustus]

I use Classic Start Menu and a few other customizations:

 

[frogboy]

Yes but only the dark theme.

 

[ElectricSheep]

I'm always fiddling around with the appearance and tweaking the looks & stuff cause I get bored quickly!
Auto hide task bar, moving stuff around, the list goes on...........
Oh, and I'm a wallpaper addict, not just a grass addict!!

 

[_CyberGhosT_]

On windows 7 I could anything I wanted, I learned the "how's and how to's" and could tweak it till all and I mean all areas were custom to the max.
I like Sheep get bored and tinker
I have only modded win10 a little, compared to win7, but as I learn its querks and tollerences and get bored and cagy like in the winter, I will most likely start making it mine
Someone I define as a Mod God on windows is Umbra, I have seen some of his work and he is good.

 

[LASER_oneXM]

already posted my customizing software in this thread (post #02): Rainmeter recommendations and other Customization tools?
i've been always custimizing my windows OS's (Win XP, Win 95/98, Win7/8.1, etc): i'm trying to use nearly every possibility/option to customize the design of windows

 

[Ink]

Everyone does in one way or another. From XP to 8.1, I used Reg tweaks, custom VS and Icon packs.

 

[Lucent Warrior]

Everyone does in one way or another.

Simple, direct,to the point, and completely accurate.

 

[simbelmayne]

Wow, everybody do this, and I don't =) Just don't know why should I... But the screens are awesome, especially the one from @juhful =)

 

[ElectricSheep]

On windows 7 I could anything I wanted, I learned the "how's and how to's" and could tweak it till all and I mean all areas were custom to the max.
I like Sheep get bored and tinker
I have only modded Windows 10 a little, compared to Windows 7, but as I learn its querks and tollerences and get bored and cagy like in the winter, I will most likely start making it mine
Someone I define as a Mod God on windows is Umbra, I have seen some of his work and he is good.

Watch this space, lol!! Every new wallpaper's gonna start popping up and you'll see how bad I am with them! Like Fedora, who changed his avatar every 5 minutes

 

[Rocky Bennett]

I'm always fiddling around with the appearance and tweaking the looks & stuff cause I get bored quickly!
Auto hide task bar, moving stuff around, the list goes on...........
Oh, and I'm a wallpaper addict, not just a grass addict!!

This is also my M.O.

 

[NekoHr]

I use Classic Start Menu to change default Windows 10 start menu. Other than that I don't use any additional software but set task bar not to show buttons til full and show all tray icons and also turn off all animation effects.

 

[SecretKeeper]

Nah, I don't really touch much. Only things I change are: Hiding Cortana on the taskbar, hiding the multiple desktop button and changing the registry key "StartupDelayInMS" to 0.

 

[kiric96]

i use the options that the OS give to me (dark theme, hide taskbar etc), in the past i used to use third party products to tweak the UI but after all those products render my system unstable, to a point where the OS will reboot or even not boot

 

[jamescv7]

As my OS is Windows 10 thus no any 3rd party uI customization needed. The actual standard can already provide satisfaction for majority of users and you are free for possible issues.

 

[Hadden]

Yup, I like to mess with system dll/registry XD
On win10 I use customized Aeroglass (I love aero frames) and taskbarblur, a registry policy for fix network between xp and 10, a tweak registry for having dark theme on explorer (on 32'' there's still too much white), a registry tweak for hide double usb drives and to hide onedrive (I currently don't use it), the tweak for fast start (menushowdelay), and obviously rotating wallpapers of every genre (nature, toons, comics ecc ecc) and custom mouse cursors (electric blue).
I don't use classic shell anymore; I'm trying to give a chance to 10 start (which works slightly better now).

On XP, I had an Aero Theme and explorer "mod" which was like Vista but faster. Something wonderful XD