Everything to customise Windows 7 – desktop, themes, widgets, menu and software

Customising Windows 7, without making life complicated!

How can you customise Windows 7 with just a few efficient clicks? This is the object of this article – making everyone’s life easier without having to have any particular knowledge or skills. All of this without even having to make manual changes to the Windows registry in the "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWARE" location or using the "CMD" command line! Today we are operating in a graphical environment, so it is enjoyable for users to be able to customise their working environment to suit their tastes without having to use old methods.

The essentials for changing the systems appearance

There are a lot of ways of customising Windows 7. We will initially look at the most used and those that are of interest to a wide number of users - changing the theme, wallpaper, installing widgets and even launching various tasks directly from the taskbar. To cover such a wide range of actions and special needs, we will even present a range of "software tweaks" allowing you to take your desktop father with 3D actions, the appearance of system elements (icons, menus, windows, fonts…), changing the start-up logo, installing virtual desktops and other elements which can be adopted to make your machine look a little like Windows 8.

Relooking is on the border of tweaking…

We have tried to bring together as many free programs as possible, although it has to be admitted that some commercial releases are must visits like WindowsBlind, TuneUp Utilities and even some very nice screen savers like Marine Aquarium and animated backgrounds. There isn’t much a jump to make from relooking to tweaking! It’s for this reason that you can customise the appearance of Windows with certain utilities in addition to changing the way Microsoft’s OS behaves.