Questions tagged [desktop-customization]
Tweaking the look and feel of the operating system's desktop. All OSes welcome.
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file explorer shortcut terms [closed]
The goal is a way to route to a specific directory using file explorer in Windows 10 using a single term in the address bar. An example would be the environmental variable %programfiles%, to jump ...
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Wallpaper change doesn't work after Intune Configuration Profile
Currently we have the problem that we set the background images via Intune (Configuration Profiles). This unfortunately prevents the user from changing them themselves. Now we want to replace the ...
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Next desktop background by cmd, Powershell or batch?
I have set slideshow as my Windows 10 background. I can right click on the desktop and select Next desktop background to change it to the next image. Is there any way to do this via cmd or powershell ...
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How to change theme/background settings in Windows 10 automatically or with one click?
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I set my background to slideshow that changes every 10 minutes. It also choose the accent color automatically from my background and show the accent color on start, taskbar, and ...
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How can i change this type of text color in windows?
I have installed a theme and it works great, but there is one thing, some texts are gray and I want to make them white.
I checked a lot of websites on 'How to change windows color text' but I could ...
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How to increase the shadow under windows?
I am using Windows 11. I am aware of sysdm.cpl and already have "Show shadow under windows" enabled. However, I found the shadow is too thin/flat compared to macOS.
How to increase the ...
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How can I set different wallpaper for dual monitor in win10 with batch file
I have dual monitors, and I want to set different wallpapers for each monitor. Bing wallpaper always change both of them, so I wonder how to write a .bat to update wallpaper for my monitor 2 and do ...
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How can I make the view mode of folders on a usb drive the same on different computers?
For example, the drive letter of a usb drive is H:\. I set the view mode of a folder on this drive to list. When I change the drive letter, the view mode of this folder will not be list anymore. I ...
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Resizing the Task View ribbon in Windows 11
I'm making the transition from Win 8.1 to Win 11. Ever since XP I've had an old toolbar (a remnant of PowerDesk from the early 90's), which hid along the right screen margin, appeared when I passsed ...
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How to see changes being done to registry?
I am using StartAllBack to customize my Win11, but I would like to switch to Start11. The thing is SAB has a feature where it colorizes even dialog windows like copy/move dialogs and errors and I ...
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windows 11: can I put the taskbar on the left side of the monitor?
In Windows 10, it was easy to make it so the taskbar is "parked" on the left-hand side of the monitor. When Windows 11 first came out, I noticed this was no longer possible.
I figured it was ...
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I found a good monitor with 1ms VRB (it's an IPS monitor)
I found a good monitor and it says it has 1ms VRB (it's an IPS monitor). What is 1ms VRB? What does it translate to GTG?
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Can i make clicking on window will activate it but without bringing it to foreground?
Is there a way to disable bringing the window to foreground when be clicked? and then if i need it to come to foreground i use the taskbar or click over the specific window's title bar. and not by ...
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Make desktop icon box opaque on Windows 7
I'm using Windows 7 Ultimate SP1. I have an elaborate desktop background image, within which most desktop icons become visually obscured. See image below:
Is there a way of making the icons with ...
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Is there a way to add a button to Windows 11's start menu's power options?
Is there a way to add a button to the Windows 11 start menu power options that would activate a script?
place where new button would go:
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Can Conky display detailed information without being specifically configured to my current hardware?
I'd like Conky to display things like the usage of each CPU core, but I don't see a way to do this other than by manually writing a Conky config file which explicitly enumerates which cores I'd like ...
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Configure Conky to display arbitrary measurements as a number / percent / bar / graph / guage
Does Conky allow me to display an arbitrary measurement as a bar, gauge, graph, etc? Or only the ones that it provides explicit objects for, eg. CPU usage can be displayed as any of:
${cpuN} : A ...
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Inverted color cursor with custom shape
TL;DR Is there a way to have a custom (preferably tailless) cursor with inverted colors on Windows 10?
I really like using the inverted color cursor on Windows 10, so that the color of the cursor is ...
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How do I change the windows 11 right-click context menu background color?
In Windows 11, when you right click on your desktop or file explorer and hover over a menu item, the item's background changes to a slightly, almost-imperceptibly darker grey. If you go to "show ...
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Wallpaper randomly distorting and turning grey in macOS
I am running Monterey (12.5.1) on my 2019 MacBook Pro 16" (Intel i7 based, 6 core) and for the last couple of weeks, I am seeing the wallpapers (which is set to "custom folder" and ...
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Windows 11 - How Can I Change the Taskbar Icon or Actual Icon of Windows Terminal
Microsoft makes it extremely difficult to make any changes to "modern" Windows apps.
For most non-MS Store applications, you can simply place a shortcut with a modified icon in the Start ...
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How can I achieve the look of the Kali terminal in Ubuntu?
I have been using kali Linux for Years but recently have switched over to Ubuntu for my daily driver
I really miss the Look and feel of Kali Linux Terminal but want to stick with Ubuntu as my daily ...
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How to add custom pre-saved command line (via CMD) on the Windows context menu?
I'm calling for you because I'm a big fan of Windows tweaks, customization and tricks. Often have some ideas to customize my Windows and save time with a new workflow, BUT I'm not very good in coding, ...
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How can I make the windows 10 taskbar window icon highlight the entire tile instead of just a thin strip?
By default, when a window is open, you can only see a thin 2 pixel bar on the side of the icon as you can see with firefox.
I want it to show a background color at all times like with the itunes icon (...
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Is it safe to move Desktop to D: Drive?
Is it safe to move Desktop to D: Drive?
I found discordant opinions on the internet, but maybe it's because it depends on the computer, and how long you have been putting things into it. In my case, ...
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Can I set separate desktop background slideshows for an extended desktop setup with Windows 10?
I have a laptop with Windows 10 connected to two external monitors. The dimensions of my three monitors are each very different -- one is my normal laptop monitor, one is vertical and one is extra ...
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Is it possible to let multiple applications run in "fullscreen mode" side by side major window managers?
Asking this question I'm having Gnome 4 on Fedora 35 on my mind and it would be nice to have a solution for Gnome but I'm not emotionally attached to it - but first things first, here is the question:
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Windows 10: Fix the default new folder view customization
I want to set the default new folder view to Documents, whatever its contents.
I have set all drives and subfolders in the "optimize this folder for" to view as Documents, and applied it to ...
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Is there any way or hotkey for custom screen scale setting in Windows 11?
I share my laptop with my brother and we both use different scale settings; I use 125 and he uses 100.
How can I get a context menu for Windows 11 or a hotkey to switch the setting for me without ...
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Even smaller Windows 11 desktop icons
Just after installation, desktop icons were quite small, way smaller than on Windows 10, and this suited me well.
Then having once clicked right button on desktop and choosing "View", I ...
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How to disable background slideshow and make this setting stick
My windows 10 pc has two monitors, and I managed to install a different background wallpaper for each. However, after a while, the backgrounds appear on the wrong monitor. I tried to turn off ...
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Tweak Windows 10 scrollbar to jump to clicked location by default
In Windows 10 (and probably all other Windows versions too), clicking a scrollbar above or below its handle scrolls up or down by one page. But instead, I'd like to jump to the clicked location. There ...
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How to decode uuencoded PCIDLIST_ABSOLUTE struct?
I am trying to programmatically change (using AHK) the wallpaper folder location (album) displayed in the Personalization > Background setting in Windows 10. I read here that the slideshow.ini file ...
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Change to a new desktop wallpaper weekly [duplicate]
What I want to do is so that for example, on January 1, it sets the wallpaper to the 785.png, and on January 8 (or after 7 days) it sets it to the 786.png and so on.
I tried following this guide, but ...
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I am using a limited keyboard and would like to change my Windows 10 system shortcut keys?
I am looking for ways of customizing Windows 10 system in order to adjust it to my habits. I am especially used to editable shortcuts for the window manager actions (minimize, maximize, tile/arrange ...
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Redirected Windows 10 Desktop Directory Resisting View Configuration
A user's Desktop directory / shortcut has been redirected to a network share, by specifying that network share in the directory's Properties > Location tab.
As noted, this causes the directory icon ...
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Windows 10 : Manually position and stretch wallpaper across unusual 3-monitor setup
Windows 10 only offers a few options for positioning the background image, namely 'Fill', 'Fit', 'Stretch', 'Tile', 'Center', and 'Span'. But in the case of my image and my monitor setup (three of ...
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How can I remove a taskbar icon but keep it running?
I want to remove the taskbar icon not just hide it in the overflow but keep it running in the background. The app doesn't have an option to hide its taskbar icon.
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Is There any way to hide taskbar only on desktop?
As Title says "Is There any way to hide taskbar only on desktop?"
I mean taskbar work like regular when open explorer,browser etc, in all cases taskbar always show except on desktop.
Windows ...
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Change size of icon type in Windows 10
Windows view has LIST TYPE. Is there any way to change the icon size for those views?
For example, I want to explore in LIST VIEW but I want the icon a little bit larger.
In the above image can I ...
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Custom physical keyboard that launches apps
Is it possible to make a custom keyboard (or use one already made) and assign to each key an application to be launched when the key is pressed?
Something that works like a physical dock (for Mac ...
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Any way to change icons of Chrome shortcuts pinned to taskbar? (Windows 10)
I have a bunch of websites "saved as shortcuts" from Chrome, and pinned to taskbar.
But I would like to customize the taskbar icons, e.g., to distinguish Outlook Mail from Calendar:
How do ...
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How to specify permament columns for music folder in Windows10?
When I create folder with MP3 files Windows changes folder template to "Music". Ok, but default columns for this template are: Name, #, Title, Artists, Album. I can customize that for one ...
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How to snap windows to each other?
On Windows 10 its possible to snap an application window to (left/right) size or to the corners, one have just to drag the window there.
On macOS windows stick to each other, so its easier to position ...
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How to have Windows 7 store its desktop wallpaper file TranscodedWallpaper.jpg on a RAM disk (RAM drive)?
Windows 7 (and later versions, to my knowledge) stores the current desktop's wallpaper as a transcoded image file named TranscodedWallpaper.jpg.
In Windows 7, the location of this file isX:\Users\<...
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macOS Big Sur - Change desktop wallpaper image (currently forced black)
I'm an admin on my macbook - And there's also an admin account that I don't have access to.
I'd like to change my wallpaper image from a flat black image which I think is being forced on my by some ...
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Determine what changed my desktop wallpaper
How do I determine what caused the change of my background wallpaper? Identify the programm/process if that was a malware, get event information, anything? Somehow find out why that happened.
My ...
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How to show more than 4 applications matching a search string in the Windows Start menu (Windows 7)?
In Win7, how can you show more than 4 apps matching a search string entered into the Start menu's "Search programs and files" input field when Control Panel items also match the search ...
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Win10 How to Remove Background Picture For One Monitor Only
I have 2 monitors and inadvertently set the same picture as the background for each monitor. I wanted one solid color and the picture on the other but now I can only change them to both solid or a ...
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Is there a clever way to group a bunch of files together besides using a folder (for Windows desktop background images)?
I have many photographs, and I want to pick about 1000 of them to use as Windows desktop backgrounds (aka wallpapers).
The easiest thing to do is copy the ones I want into their own folder, and then ...