Your fresh installation of Windows 7 gives a ‘one size fits all’ configuration, but there are countless ways in which you can tweak the standard operating system to make it better suit your particular needs.
Built-in customisation options include the usual controls over the interface theme and the way in which Windows alerts you to important events.
There are also a bevy of free add-ons, which provide an even wider choice of customisation options – from ways to change parts of the OS that Microsoft doesn’t cater for, to adding clever new features that make Windows 7 even more capable.
Here are 25 of our favourite tweaks.
1. Change the colour of the Aero UI
Windows 7’s sleek Aero theme is a definite improvement on Windows XP’s ugly Luna, but you may not like its default colours.
Right-click the desktop, choose ‘Personalize’, then ‘Window Color’, and you’ll be able to tweak the colours to your heart’s content.
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25 cool Windows 7 interface tweaks
Windows 7's sleek Aero theme is a definite improvement on Windows XP's ugly Luna, but you may not like its default colours. Right-click the desktop,
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