Show us your custom Windows theme mods!

[ILoveZed]

Loving my windows 11

[indrora]

It's been years since I actively modified my UI outside of the occasional font tweak. Stopped somewhere around the win8 era because I got serious into college and decided "getting things done" was more important than tweaking all the knobs. Stability over cool factor made a huge difference, especially when it comes to usability. 

The oldest active screenshot I have is from the laptop I started college with, a hand-me-down Dell that I ran Debian on:

Later, I picked up another hand-me-down in 2012 that I could do more work on -- it had I think four total gigs of ram. 

And here's a ca. 2012 shot showing Rainlendar on a different laptop I had at the time

Nowadays, my customizations are minimal at best. Using Oh My ZSH's nanotech theme on unix boxes and the occasional UI tweak here and there. 

Customization for me now mostly involves stickers, which are a constant collector item, and things like keyboards. I have something in the ballpark of over 250 stickers -- around 80-100 unique ones if I had to wager -- in the collection of stickers that I apply to things. As for keyboards, here' one half of my daily driver Ergodox: 

[TorchGM]

I tend to keep things rather stock, however I do like the aesthetic of a split and rounded taskbar and with no real options for this I ended up just writing RoundedTB to do it for me. Combined with TranslucentTB (which was a huge inspiration for RTB in the first place) I really like the end result. I also ended up making a nicer About dialog as winver is painful to look at.

 

[lumilaura]

made an account just to post this :)

it’s my little XP happy place

[shironn]

I just hid all the desktop icons, move the taskbar to the top because I'm used to it and put a anime wallpaper from wallpaper engine

[emosun]

windows 11

[emosun]

21 minutes ago, lumilaura said:

made an account just to post this

it’s my little XP happy place

 

i love that lol

[Dudefoxlive]

I miss 7

[WynterTheCat]

1 hour ago, indrora said:

The oldest active screenshot I have is from the laptop I started college with, a hand-me-down Dell that I ran Debian on:

The bnuny doesn't know if he trusts this resistor

[WynterTheCat]

1 hour ago, TorchGM said:

I tend to keep things rather stock, however I do like the aesthetic of a split and rounded taskbar and with no real options for this I ended up just writing RoundedTB to do it for me. Combined with TranslucentTB (which was a huge inspiration for RTB in the first place) I really like the end result. I also ended up making a nicer About dialog as winver is painful to look at.

 

I love all of these. I'll take your whole stock.

 

If you wrote these do you have a site they're available on?

[Heliian]

I rarely have a desktop to look at or need to tweak a ui.  I rotate my wallpapers out every once and a while, my work computer usually has a nice verticalmag calendar of the month.

 

My gaming system I slapped Win10 on and can't even pick a wallpaper, don't care, game is running. 

 

I always shut off my monitor to save power. 

 

Edit: I totally forgot about my laptop startup sound, it's a jet engine starting but I usually mute it now. 

[WhitetailAni]

I haven't done too much to customize the look, but here's what I've done:

1. Uninstalled Cortana

2. Disabled Edge in the search bar (does nothing when I attempt to search up a word)

3. Set the Magic School Bus theme as my startup sound

4. Disabled a bunch of unnecessary Windows services

Here's my wallpaper (and pinned programs)

Spoiler

From left to right:
Chrome
File Explorer
Minecraft Java
Discord
ImgBurn
Audacity

VLC Media Player

Mesen (NES emulator)
snes9x (SNES emulator)
Citra (3DS emulator)
Dolphin (GameCube/Wii emulator)
Cemu (Wii U emulator)
FanControl
Steam
Armoury Crate
HDGraph
MSI Afterburner
Reggie! Level Editor
7zip

HxD
HWiNFO64 6.42
Disk Management
Terminal (shortcut runs as administrator)
PowerShell (shortcut runs as administrator)
Task Manager
WiiBaFu
FAHControl

BOINC Manager

PKHeX

BRSTM Converter C#

XKCD 1608

 

[SilentAutomaton]

It's Arch windows... btwI

[GhostRoadieBL]

 

 

 

mostly rainmeter, been running the same since win7 in 2014 through win10 now

 

[GhostRoadieBL]

3 hours ago, Arch User said:

Im getting "young kid" vibes -not that there is anything wrong w/ being young we all were-,

Also please clean your desktop, it's melting my brain, thanks!

I had the same thought, this is a pre-teen's desktop with nothing better to do than dump photos on their desktop instead of in folders like adults do

[sub68]

I run my windows 10 on a couple of things.

1. dark mode
2. disable cortana button
3. disable task view.
4. run 24 hour time
5. madobe yuu theme sounds (yes windows anime sounds)
6. I choose meadow green for my color cause it looks great.
7. run a oxygen cursor thanks @Eschew https://www.deviantart.com/lavalon/art/Oxygen-Cursors-76614092
8. try to run the desktop with as few icons as possible.
9. FBI terminal as my lock screen
10. Weaponized waifu as my wallpaper

and here is the pack

https://www.mediafire.com/file/ammm3k80uzyv4o6/sub68windows_pack.deskthemepack/file

 

[TorchGM]

1 hour ago, WynterTheCat said:

I love all of these. I'll take your whole stock.

 

If you wrote these do you have a site they're available on?

Thanks! It's all open-source on GitHub - TranslucentTB, which has been around for years and is developed by a close friend of mine (who's a lot smarter than I am!!) can be found here. The stuff I make can be found here. I'm just finalising the release that adds the split taskbar and a bunch of other tweaks, hopefully that should be released by the end of the week. The About Windows dialog isn't currently on my GitHub profile solely cuz I've not had the time to upload it. There's an old version for Windows 10 there but not the fancy new one.

 

Also whilst I'm sure plenty of people here have less-than-favourable opinions on it, both RoundedTB and TranslucentTB are available on the Microsoft Store - as much hate as it gets, it means that I don't have to pay for a code-signing certificate or build some kind of auto-update functionality. Microsoft just handle that all for me and I'm very appreciative

[MC_MAN]

 

I use Stardock Fences to make scrollable and resizable areas for all my icons. 

 

 

What it would look like if all my games were visible

[JayBlu360]

5 hours ago, ColinLTT said:

Show us your custom Windows theme mods! How have you changed your windows experience from stock! 

Huge bonus points if you actually customized a theme/made your own theme! 

 

[Arika]

Funny that this thread came up, given that i spent last night making changes to my Laptop

 

Nothing overly special since i like to keep things mostly minimalistic

 

Changes:

Centered taskbar icons (Taskbar X)

Rainmeter top bar (enigma theme) reminiscent of Linux

DesktopCoral to permanently reserve the top part of the screen so full screen programs don't overlap it (fullscreen videos still work normally)

Hidden desktop icon names and shortcut icons.

 

 

[freeagent]

I'm so boring.

 

 

[Terrafail]

All done within windows without external modification.

[Tonny123]

Just desktop background & color. Your generic PC.

[JuliasTechSpot]

I used to do more customizations back then but may start doing more.

 

 

[addictedtree]