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I continue my series of articles about the appearance of Windows. This time I will talk about customizing the appearance of windows, their borders, fonts and sizes.

There are many settings to change the appearance Windows windows. Perhaps not all users are satisfied standard view windows, font or border. Or you just want to delve into the settings for the appearance of the system.

Windows has the ability to change themes. To do this, just click right click mice by empty space desktop and select Personalize. This menu provides a choice various topics design, change the color of windows, turn on / off.

For expansion standard list themes, you can download any themes you like from the Internet, but most of these themes do not have digital signature, therefore, to install them, some manipulations will be required. I will talk about this in future articles.

By clicking on the Window color button, you can customize color scheme windows. Can choose ready-made templates and adjust the color set manually. Also, in this window you can turn transparency on and off.

The Advanced Appearance Options menu contains a huge set of options for customizing windows.

Now we will consider only some of these settings.

Scroll bar - the width of the scroll bar that is on the right side of each window

How she looks like:

Window - Set the color of the window and the text inside the window.

Border - Change the size of the border around windows.

Window Control Buttons - Size of Close, Minimize, and Full Screen & Window Buttons

Change example:

Icon spacing (horizontal, vertical) — the distance between shortcuts on the desktop.

Icon - Change the font under icons and inside windows. Ability to select any font from the list and specify more right size font. If the names are not fully displayed, please refer to previous paragraph and change the font size to a smaller one.

Selected menu item — color of the cursor when selecting multiple files, as well as one selected item.

AT recent times I began to notice that most of the users of the "seven" use the standard theme, which the developers affectionately called Aero.

In my opinion, it is overly focused on tablets. Huge window control buttons and overly wide window titles and borders tell us this - all this makes the interface somewhat cumbersome. In addition, the developers were too clever with a variety colors: all these transparencies, transfusions, gradients and other delights create a kind of muddy effect.

Perhaps someone likes it so much, someone is indifferent, someone is used to it, and someone simply does not know that all this can be changed.

Visual Styles

Themes

Themes are just a file describing what should be used. This includes the visual style itself, some icons, screensavers, wallpapers, cursors and some other elements.

It is worth mentioning that sometimes topics can be targeted to different settings Taskbars. So, for example, for a large taskbar on the right and for a small one on top, different topics. Usually, developers add an appropriate prefix to them, such as "Top" or "Left".

Installing themes

But not everything is so simple. Initially, it is forbidden to install unsigned Microsoft themes. To get around this limitation, you need to patch three dll "ki. For this, there is a simple open-source program called Universal Theme Patcher for Windows(Off. site, download, mirror).
Disable UAC, run with administrator rights and click on the three Patch buttons. This operation absolutely safe, in addition, the program automatically makes a backup so that you can restore the original files in case of emergency. For 64bit it is recommended to patch with both versions. the system contains both 32 and 64 bit dlls at the same time.
After that, we restart the computer.

Now it remains to move desired topics in %SystemRoot%\Resources\Themes\ and select them in Personalize. By doing this, you will see that the window design has changed, but the Start and navigation buttons remain. The thing is that they are tightly “wired” into system files. Therefore, most themes now come with already modified files that will simply need to be replaced.

System file replacements

• C:\Windows\exlporter.exe
• C:\Windows\System32\ExplorerFrame.dll
• C:\Windows\System32\shell32.dll
• C:\Windows\System32\timedate.cpl

Now we only have to replace original files on those available in the topic. To do this, add to source files prefix _old, then move the patched file to the place of the old one. You can do it easier and use Theme Manager, the link to which is just below. He will do everything himself.

ATTENTION:

1. Theme developers usually make two versions system files: for x86 and for 64 separately.
2. Don't be lazy to check file versions! If they do not converge, then most likely you will have to do a recovery via live-cd or "System Restore"
3. After replacing shell32.dll, you may lose multichannel sound.

Reboot and see the updated appearance.

Additional setting

Icons

It automatically replaces icons desired applications based on the rules described in package.xml. Everything is quite simple here, so it makes no sense to explain on the fingers.

And on the same deviart, there are ready-made packs that almost completely replace system icons. One of the most popular is Faenza IconPack, which is so violently hated on the lore.

We simplify our life

Theme Manager (Off. site, download, mirror)

Logon Screen Changer (download, mirror)

Navigation Panel Customizer (Off. site, download, mirror)

Taskbar Item Pinner (Official site, download, mirror)

Instruction

Folder view settings in Windows 7 are largely hidden from the user. As a standard, you can only open a folder and use the slider in the upper right part of the window to adjust the display according to the principle: large or small icons, tiles, list, table. Sometimes these settings are remembered for some folders, but most often you have to set them up each time you open them.

Open any folder through "My Computer" or in any other way. The main thing is that you have at least one folder open. Then press the Alt key on your keyboard. When you press, under address bar at the top of the folder window, the usual old Windows versions menu bar File/Edit/View/Tools/Help. Release Alt and select the appropriate folder options from the View menu. You can customize how directories are grouped, such as by name, size, or creation date.

When you have configured everything you need, select the "Tools" menu item and in it the "Folder Options" submenu. A settings window will open with three tabs: General, View, and Search.

Activate the "View" tab by clicking on it with the mouse button. You will see two parts of the settings window: "Folder View" and "Advanced Options".

Click the "Apply to folders" button at the top of the window so that all folders are displayed with the settings that you have set. If you change your mind, just click the "Cancel" button and reconfigure the view of the directories.

Also in the section additional options check the appropriate boxes. For example, if you do not want to press Alt to bring up the folder menu, check the box next to "Always show the menu". Another one convenient opportunity of this menu - the "Restore defaults" button. It is very useful in cases where for some reason the settings were not applied, or set incorrectly. Instead of long search reasons, just reset all settings to initial state and then change them to your liking.

Related videos

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• how to change theme to 7

If everything on the desktop of your computer is trite and no longer pleasing to the eye, you need to change something. You can change the splash screen, you can change the picture of the desktop itself, or you can change the look of the folder. And not one, but several or even all at once. Then the constant novelty and colorful design of the desktop will cheer you up not only at work, but also at home. And you can literally change the type of folder in a few simple actions.

You will need

• Step by step instructions
• Patience
• Attention

Instruction

Activate the fragment of the called menu. Before us appears a window in which everything about this folder is displayed: when it was created, how much information it contains, how much

This tutorial will show you how to change the appearance of a folder in Windows 7.

In order to change the appearance of a folder in Windows 7, the first step is to go to its properties. To do this, right-click on the folder and select "Properties" from the drop-down list. Also, you can quickly open the properties window through a keyboard shortcut. Click once with the left mouse button on the folder and press the keyboard shortcut Alt+Enter.

You will see a new window with folder properties. In the "Settings" tab there is a special block for changing the folder icon. Let's click on the "Change Icon" button.

Another window will open in which you can select which icon will be placed for current folder. You can select an icon from those offered by Windows 7 itself or select an icon from any folder on your computer using the "Browse" button. Last option is suitable for For example, when you downloaded some special set of icons from the Internet. Files with *.ico, *.icl, *.exe or *.dll extensions are suitable for icons.

Also, you can put an icon from some already existing program or games. For this we go to desired folder on your computer, select the file and click the "Open" button.

After that, the icon appears in the list and now we just have to click the "OK" button. Then "Apply" and again "OK".

In order to restore the default icon view, we again go to the folder properties, on the "Settings" tab, select "Change Icon", and then click special button"Restore Defaults".

If you still have questions, you can watch the video version of the lesson below.

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In this tutorial, I'll show you another way. how to do invisible folder . In one of the previous lessons, I already talked about hidden files and folders. Today we will create an invisible folder by assigning to it special attribute from the command line.

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