Showing posts with label Customize Windows. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Customize Windows. Show all posts
Changing the IE title bar
This little VBS Script from Doug Knox will allow you to change the IE title text to anything you want, have fun.
Custom Toolbars, Toolbars everywhere
First things first, give yourself some room to make toolbars, if you dont want them on your taskbar
1. A good place to put a toolbar would be at the top of the screen, just drag your My Computer Icon to the top of the screen, or the side. Or Wherever, this can be done with any folder if you want. Only in the windows NT verisons (2k, XP, 2003 etc, and i think
ME)
2. Next, make a folder somewhere on your harddrive, call it toolbars or something. Then, make folders inside that folder for each toolbar you want. Then make shortcuts to some programs, or folders. Or you can skip this step if you want to have a toolbar of a folder you use for downloading or saving stuff. For alot of you this would mean My Documents.
the toolbar is displayed, so that way it becomes a drop down, like your start
menu.
5. If you have a my computer toolbar, you may want to right click on it, and
uncheck show text. Then hover over view, and select small icons.
1. A good place to put a toolbar would be at the top of the screen, just drag your My Computer Icon to the top of the screen, or the side. Or Wherever, this can be done with any folder if you want. Only in the windows NT verisons (2k, XP, 2003 etc, and i think
ME)
2. Next, make a folder somewhere on your harddrive, call it toolbars or something. Then, make folders inside that folder for each toolbar you want. Then make shortcuts to some programs, or folders. Or you can skip this step if you want to have a toolbar of a folder you use for downloading or saving stuff. For alot of you this would mean My Documents.
3. Right Click on your taskbar, or a newly created toolbar (such as my computer), then hover over Toolbars, Click on New Toolbar.
the toolbar is displayed, so that way it becomes a drop down, like your start
menu.
5. If you have a my computer toolbar, you may want to right click on it, and
uncheck show text. Then hover over view, and select small icons.
Change the start button text in WinXP, how 2 make the start button say anything
this can be either with a HEX editor, but i have found that using a resource editor is much better. the one i will use is called Resource Hacker, available here
in resource hacker open up the file called explorer.exe and go to the folder called stringtable>37 and the 1033 file you will see "start" in quotes towar the top. Change that to whatever u want and then click the "Compile Script" button. Save the file as explorerx.exe or whatever you desire. now u need to go into the registry by typing regedit in the start>run window. navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE>Software>Microsoft>Windows NT>Current Version>Winlogon and double click on the entry called "Shell." it should say explorer.exe in the text area. change it to explorerx.exe or whatever u named your new file. close the registry editor and log off windows, log back on. Success!
in resource hacker open up the file called explorer.exe and go to the folder called stringtable>37 and the 1033 file you will see "start" in quotes towar the top. Change that to whatever u want and then click the "Compile Script" button. Save the file as explorerx.exe or whatever you desire. now u need to go into the registry by typing regedit in the start>run window. navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE>Software>Microsoft>Windows NT>Current Version>Winlogon and double click on the entry called "Shell." it should say explorer.exe in the text area. change it to explorerx.exe or whatever u named your new file. close the registry editor and log off windows, log back on. Success!
Change the start button text in WinXP, how 2 make the start button say anything
this can be either with a HEX editor, but i have found that using a resource editor is much better. the one i will use is called Resource Hacker, available here
in resource hacker open up the file called explorer.exe and go to the folder called stringtable>37 and the 1033 file you will see "start" in quotes towar the top. Change that to whatever u want and then click the "Compile Script" button. Save the file as explorerx.exe or whatever you desire. now u need to go into the registry by typing regedit in the start>run window. navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE>Software>Microsoft>Windows NT>Current Version>Winlogon and double click on the entry called "Shell." it should say explorer.exe in the text area. change it to explorerx.exe or whatever u named your new file. close the registry editor and log off windows, log back on. Success!
in resource hacker open up the file called explorer.exe and go to the folder called stringtable>37 and the 1033 file you will see "start" in quotes towar the top. Change that to whatever u want and then click the "Compile Script" button. Save the file as explorerx.exe or whatever you desire. now u need to go into the registry by typing regedit in the start>run window. navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE>Software>Microsoft>Windows NT>Current Version>Winlogon and double click on the entry called "Shell." it should say explorer.exe in the text area. change it to explorerx.exe or whatever u named your new file. close the registry editor and log off windows, log back on. Success!
Hideing Taskbar Icons, usefull to prettify
This will show you how to hide icons in the taskbar
1.Right Click on Start button
2.Select Properties
3.Find and Select the Taskbar (Top left hand cornor)
4.Click the custimize button in the bottom right hand cornor
5.The Left hand Bar contains all items Current/Past
6.The Right Hand Bar contains the status of each item
7.Click on the status to change it.
1.Right Click on Start button
2.Select Properties
3.Find and Select the Taskbar (Top left hand cornor)
4.Click the custimize button in the bottom right hand cornor
5.The Left hand Bar contains all items Current/Past
6.The Right Hand Bar contains the status of each item
7.Click on the status to change it.
Skinning The Windows Xp/2000 Boot Logo, Boring No More!
Ever get bored with the default Windows boot-up screen? It's ugly, ain't it? There's a free program called Bootskin that will make chaning it a snap!
Plus there are hundreds of skins that you can download for free! Can't get any better than that, methinks
Plus there are hundreds of skins that you can download for free! Can't get any better than that, methinks
Windows Xv, Heck Yea I Skinned That Ole Boring Desktop
hey whatsup everyone i just found a site that is new to me and it has the tools and designs you need to get rid of that boring blue XP Theme and download plenty of others oh yea it even has a tutorial on how to make your own but enough talk see for yourself if i seem excited in this post then... Yes Iam... heres the site www.customize.org from the moment i stumbled upon this site i added it to my favorites... as soon as i learn how i'll post a screen shot of what i have goin on and you'll see why i call it Windows XVista i mean why not have the beauty of vista and the sturdiness of XP?
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Enable New Boot Screen:, Windows Vista
There is a cool trick that will allow you to see what may have been a new boot screen for Windows Vista.
Enable New Boot Screen:
1. Click on the start orb and type in "MSCONFIG" in the textbox.
2. Once the System Configuration tool loads, click on the Boot tab.
3. Under Boot Options check "No GUI Boot".
4. Hit OK and reboot to see the new screen.
Enable New Boot Screen:
1. Click on the start orb and type in "MSCONFIG" in the textbox.
2. Once the System Configuration tool loads, click on the Boot tab.
3. Under Boot Options check "No GUI Boot".
4. Hit OK and reboot to see the new screen.
Make Your Own Special Characters In Xp, Using XP's built-in charater editor
A little known program included with XP is eudcedit.exe. (eudc stands for End User Defined Characters)
Check out this article for a brief tutorial.
Check out this article for a brief tutorial.
Vista Drive Icons Into Windows Xp
Hi everyone read a blog about a small program that will change your XP drive icons to look like the Vista drive icons in computer. I have downloaded and installed it in a VM with no probs and no threats detected so I went ahead and put it on my XP systems without a hitch.
Here is the link http://drvicon.sourceforge.net/
Enjoy.
Here is the link http://drvicon.sourceforge.net/
Enjoy.
Cool Tips For Changing Your Task Bar.
For those of us who like a change,I stumbled across a cool site, for changing your Task Bar.
http://www.htworkshop.com/freeinfo_windows_taskbar.htm
http://www.htworkshop.com/freeinfo_windows_taskbar.htm
Icon Free Clutter, Hide desktop icons's descriptions/names
For those of you that want a text free environment or clutter free desktop, a recent tweak/hack that I read about (an oldie but a goodie), allows you to hide an icon's name/description, let me explain.
Find an icon on your desktop, say Windows Media Player.
- RIGHT CLICK on it and choose RENAME
- DELETE the current name e.g. Windows Media Player and press the ALT key along with 0160.
- Then press ENTER
This will add an extended ASCII character that shows up as a space and thus creating the illusion that your icon is nameless!
Find an icon on your desktop, say Windows Media Player.
- RIGHT CLICK on it and choose RENAME
- DELETE the current name e.g. Windows Media Player and press the ALT key along with 0160.
- Then press ENTER
This will add an extended ASCII character that shows up as a space and thus creating the illusion that your icon is nameless!
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