Windows 7 (x86/x64) - Customise your start button orb with one click!

mrk · 24 Mar 2010 at 10:08

Posted over at Neowin was a tool that allows you one click change the start button orb to a new one, I have downloaded it and found it to be quite nice, makes a change to the usual round orb too. There's loads of orbs out there to download but the tool comes with a 10pack sample.

I downloaded a 250 orb pack last night and only liked a few but settled with this:

The tool: http://www.thewindowsclub.com/windows-7-start-button-changer-released

250 Orbs pack: http://rapidshare.com/files/367392662/Windows_7_Start_Button_Changer___247_Orbs.rar (!!! IGNORE THE OLDER VERSION ORB CHANGER TOOL THAT IS IN THE EXTRACTED FOLDER, USE v2.0 LINKED ABOVE !!!)

Small tweaks and changes here and there to OSes and applications like this make daily computing nicer

Philtor · 24 Mar 2010 at 10:16

I remember manually editing explorer on my old XP machine so the start button said 'Phil'. lol ! Will have to check this out tonight.

mrk · 24 Mar 2010 at 10:19

Do it!

I also have a logon screen changer if anyone is interested in that too?

I loathe the bright blue logon/lock screen backgrounds so made a custom minimalist one!

Philtor · 24 Mar 2010 at 10:29

Don't use a logon screen as im the only one who use's my machine

I did have a play with a similar program when I was running Vista but. It allowed you to have a logon screen with a sort of space type background. Very nice!

T0M0 · 24 Mar 2010 at 12:28

Looks good.

On a side note, what is that Firefox skin? Looks really good.

mrk · 24 Mar 2010 at 12:31

TwentyTen =]

SiriusB · 24 Mar 2010 at 13:06

Nice little tool. Shame out of all 250 only 2 or 3 caught my eye. And they looked terrible once applied.

I would be intrested in the logon screen tool though.

Philtor · 24 Mar 2010 at 13:31

I think it's the Stardock Logon studio? That's what I used on Vista at the time.

mrk · 24 Mar 2010 at 13:40

It's not Stardock no, it's just a longon background changer tool. I bunged it in \windows as logon.exe so I just Start>logon to change the background quickly.

http://robbiekhan.co.uk/root/temp/logon.rar

Deleted member 77746 · 24 Mar 2010 at 20:04

Cheers for this.

Supernaut91 · 24 Mar 2010 at 20:41

hmmm ran the program and nothing happened? :S

Kona* · 24 Mar 2010 at 20:44

If OcUK had a "Thank" button, I'd use it right now.

Cheers

SiriusB · 24 Mar 2010 at 20:52

Bunyan said:
hmmm ran the program and nothing happened? :S

Which one?

Kyle009 · 24 Mar 2010 at 20:55

Thanks for the logon screen changer

Supernaut91 · 24 Mar 2010 at 21:50

Windows 7 Start Button Changer, it even says the theme is selected but nothing actually changes on the superbar. Im using 64bit version of Windows 7 Professional

illogik · 24 Mar 2010 at 22:02

Oh nice. I'll try the start button mod and the logon screen changer. Thanks

Souljacker · 24 Mar 2010 at 22:03

I use the steel orb square... only one I liked out of the pack.

mrk · 24 Mar 2010 at 22:32

Bunyan said:
Windows 7 Start Button Changer, it even says the theme is selected but nothing actually changes on the superbar. Im using 64bit version of Windows 7 Professional

Run it as admin?

I assume your UAC is stopping it, forgot to mention this as I don't use UAC.

illogik · 24 Mar 2010 at 22:34

Both work fine for me

Supernaut91 · 24 Mar 2010 at 22:44

i already had UAC off, the first thing i do with a fresh installation, and i also have tried running it in admin mode no difference.