These programs let you change the look and feel of the desktop, taskbar, start menu, etc. One of the most popular desktop customization tools is Rainmeter. Rainmeter is open source and has a very active developer community.
It basically lets you display customizable skins on your desktop that can include pretty much anything. Another popular set of customization tools is from a company called Stardock. One utility they sell is WindowBlinds. This program will let you add customized skins to your desktop windows.
You can then add backgrounds, textures and colors to the skin. You can adjust the fonts and create your own skins too. They also have other customization software like Start10, Groupy, Fences, Tiles, etc. Those are probably the two most popular Windows customization tools that are still actively developed.
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One of the most popular desktop customization tools is Rainmeter. Rainmeter is open source and has a very active developer community. It basically lets you display customizable skins on your desktop that can include pretty much anything. Another popular set of customization tools is from a company called Stardock. One utility they sell is WindowBlinds.
This program will let you add customized skins to your desktop windows. You can then add backgrounds, textures and colors to the skin. You can adjust the fonts and create your own skins too.
They also have other customization software like Start10, Groupy, Fences, Tiles, etc. Those are probably the two most popular Windows customization tools that are still actively developed. Founder of Online Tech Tips and managing editor. He began blogging in and quit his job in to blog full-time. He has over 15 years of industry experience in IT and holds several technical certifications. Read Aseem's Full Bio. Your email address will not be published. We hate spam too, unsubscribe at any time.
Best Windows Alternative Shell Replacement Programs You can completely change its look and feel and use less resources. Table of Contents. Has for the longest time! Customised a few things and in general it's ok. I'm not sure that it's necessarily faster than explorer but I sure like the clean desktop look and the emergeMenu. Thanks for sharing your story!
I might take a look at Rainmeter but I'm not too keen on using too many programs But it can be activated when using Emerge as well. Here's how:. Thanks for the comment. However I must comment that the virtual desktop applet caused me some distress and I disabled it. I'm running RocketDock on auto-hide on the left-hand side of the screen and Rainlendar vertical on the other side. With the virtual desktops these were going bonkers: moving around when I switch workspace, etc.
One question if I may: could you shed any light on the applets? As I was looking for info online but there seems to be no manual or anything. I've been using it for several years on XP. And a built-in dock the emergelauncher applet. And a system performance monitor the emergesysmon applet. I use in combination with RocketDock for apps , Launchy for keyboard quick start apps , and Rainmeter which can help solve your clock problem and is easier than Samurize so hopefully my experience can be helpful for you.
You can move them wherever and size them accordingly, you can hide certain items from the tray. You lose the ability to see the names of running apps that you have in the windows task bar, but the icons are usually enough.
After a few weeks, I'm adjusting and using a "downloads" folder for most quick downloaded files. You can still access Run by right-clicking on the desktop with Emerge, but frankly this is annoying, and mainly why I installed Launchy.
It sounds like you have a shortcut program anyways so not a big deal. The new windows desktop search WDS4 is part of explorer, so no explorer means no search.
You can right click on a folder and use the old windows search, but that isn't much good. One telling sign about Emerge is that after rebooting with explorer recently, I looked around and decided that the cleanness of Emerge was worth the few drawbacks.
The default appearance theme is pretty nice looking as well. Good luck! Johan Klos [quote]. I just stumbled on your post and actually I started using Emerge about two weeks ago.
I currently achieved this using:. Nexus dock: this serves instead of the taskbar, includes a system tray and successfully hides the taskbar. I have it at the bottom and on auto-hide to access it only when needed. Rocket Dock: I have this on the left side of the screen with some favourites for quick access. It is also on auto-hide. Humanized Enso: This cool little app sits hiding in the background until you hit the caps lock key and it serves as a "command line" style shortcut - to call programs using keyborard shortcuts.
I'm finding this little app addictive and it might make the Rocket Dock on the side redundant. Now there is desktop x but I found that it was having conflicts.
And apparently it takes us less resources - reflected in time to load. I currently use the infamous Explorer as a file manager - it's not the most excellent thing but I don't really complain.
Sure, a two-window and a tabbed interface are highly desirable. But apart from that, I am very much used to the tree structure and I activate the "address bar" in explorer so I can access my files n' folders by typing in the address. I find that in Explorer this address bar is more comfortable than in Total Commander, for example.
However what I'm looking at is a replacement for the shell, not the file manager. So I'm looking at the options there.
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