How do you customise Windows 7...FULLY?!

adamknox · 13 Feb 2010 at 17:02

Hi,
One of the reasons i upgraded from vista was i found a video on youtube showing The way you can make windows 7 look how ever u want! The video has the taskbar on the left and on the bottom there were buttons that when you hover over them, they sort of zoom a little! (e.g media Player button, and other short cuts) I cant even find the youtube video now -_- Was this video a fake?
P.s i know how to change the color etc its just adding the little features that make the navigation look a lil diffrent

adamknox · 13 Feb 2010 at 17:03

for e.g like this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNIVkfCWbCU&feature=fvw

the video had features like this.

paradigm · 13 Feb 2010 at 17:04

They will have installed apps such as rocketdock or similar to get a modified GUI.

Question I have to ask is why? Why do people feel the need to mess with it, gets incredibly annoying having to tell people at work WHY we ban this crap in the first place.

EDIT: That video shows me quite possibly the worst windows experience I've ever seen.

Deleted member 77746 · 13 Feb 2010 at 17:10

That video is the most shocking video on you tube that is not how to customize Windows 7 at all.

Question I have to ask is why? Why do people feel the need to mess with it, gets incredibly annoying having to tell people at work WHY we ban this crap in the first place.

I feel your pain.

adamknox · 13 Feb 2010 at 18:10

paradigm said:
EDIT: That video shows me quite possibly the worst windows experience I've ever seen.

Lmao 100% agreed! it was onlyvideo i could find that actully showed what i meant. The vid i saw wasnt laggy or slow at all. It was juts a little alteration! Tbh i just want to make my pc compleatly cusomised

Raumarik · 13 Feb 2010 at 18:43

Rainmeter is pretty nice, has plenty of free themes to use too.
http://www.rainmeter.net/

Got it running on mine, 10Mb RAM usage is pretty awesome too.

Raumarik · 13 Feb 2010 at 18:45

paradigm said:
They will have installed apps such as rocketdock or similar to get a modified GUI.

Question I have to ask is why? Why do people feel the need to mess with it, gets incredibly annoying having to tell people at work WHY we ban this crap in the first place.

EDIT: That video shows me quite possibly the worst windows experience I've ever seen.

They're not at work and frankly using tools like this in a minimal way can be more memory efficient than desktop gadgets.

I ban stuff like this at work too, hell no they aren't getting to use it

Eddie · 13 Feb 2010 at 18:51

paradigm said:
Question I have to ask is why? Why do people feel the need to mess with it, gets incredibly annoying having to tell people at work WHY we ban this crap in the first place.

I'm the same, I leave as much at default as I possibly can. The only thing I ever change is the Desktop Background! Keeping things simple means that it's a whole lot quicker should you need to reinstall windows ,I'm back up running as normal in no time at all these days.