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How to get rid of that depressing Microsoft look !  

Why have a cloudy day inside the house as well as outside , when you can choose your own depressing look ?

 

Changing Skin or Toolbar :  

Go to my skin page and find out, press the little devil !

 

Changing your window background :  

I expect that you know how to change background colors ! If you don't know how to change a normal window background with a gif, jpg, bmp, html or whatever, then learn it before going further, here's a short description :

 1) You have opened the folder that you would like to change.

 2) Click "view" in toolbar.

 3) Click "Choose a background picture" and "next".

 4) Click "browse" to find the picture you want and now you can finish it and it's     ready !

Now you have created a "desktop.ini" file for that respective folder, I'm saying this to tell you that although there may be many desktop.ini's on your computer it doesn't mean that it's the same file, it's up to you !

Get WindowsPictures

This is a very easy way to change almost everything on your computer, change all the colors into background pictures of your choice.

Go to http://www.fdepot.com/topten.htm and download WindowsPictures.

Getting rid of annoying "press to view files" screen in windows folder :

Backup "desktop.ini" if you might want the restriction back !  Now delete the "desktop.ini" file in the windows folder and you wont have to click twice again !  Do the same thing in your windows\system folder if you want.  Make a new dektop.ini in these folders as described before in beginning.

Changing Background in "Left Panel" :

First make a backup of all your*.htt files and webview.css (most of these are hiddenfiles !) that are in your "windows\web" folder and save them in a seperate folder, also move wvleft.bmp and wvline.gif to this backup folder !  

Now make or resize a bmp to182 x 237 pixelsor whatever size you prefer (256 colors), name it wvleft.bmp and move it to your web folder.

Do the same with a gif, the size is 168 x 1 x 256or whatever size you prefer (it's a liner, the height can be more than one pixel, ex. a fireliner should be maybe 20 pixels) and call it wvline.gif.

Alternative :

Open "folder.htt" with a texteditor, it's probably best (easiest) with notepad.exe. and change the wvleft.bmp andwvline.gif to their new names, use the browsing function in notepad.  it can be a jpg-file instead of a bmp and make sure that the new picture files are in your web folder.

Making the panel pictures match the panel background color (if not white) :

open "folder.htt" with notepad.exe and find "white" (background : white ....) and change it to for instance "black".

Changing "My Computer", "Controlpanel" etc. :

Do the same as under "Alternative : ", but this time open mycomp.htt, controlp.htt orone of the other*.htt-files !

Changing fonts in left panels :

You can change the fontsize and -type (verdana) in webview.css and folder.htt, also you can change panel size, width etc., but it's adviced only to make one little change at a time, but off course you have the original backups, right ?

Enjoy your new personal look !