Show us your custom Windows theme mods!

[Jeskspie]

On 9/27/2021 at 7:53 AM, KeradSnake said:

Wartwood represent here. Windows 10 1903 with Classic Dark Theme. Yes, you heard it right, dark mode classic theme. Along with other stuff:
- Classic Shell (Classic Windows 95 Start Menu + Taskbar skin, although I didn't use classic taskbar for that TaskbarX centered icon)

- NineX rainmeter skin

- Not that much of Windows 95 icon change (only four main icons on Windows settings and my personal folder. If there's anyone here have a tutorial on how to replace windows icons in imageres/ shell32, let me know)

- Windows File Manager, Windows 3.x Program Manger + Apps (Going to add some apps shortcut in there soon)

- Disabled desktop icons and removed some icons in right corner of taskbar to make it a bit minimalistic

- Windows 95 Startup sound

ig I like some parts of it

 

[Tea-Sir]

On 9/28/2021 at 12:34 AM, Arch User said:

-Windows Powertoys

-Better Discord w/ frosted glass theme (changed font w/ google font api to mousemoderno)

-TaskBar X

-TaskBar Groups

-Wallpaper, images are all bellow

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            "cyan": "#008080",
            "foreground": "#C0C0C0",
            "green": "#008000",
            "name": "Vintage",
            "purple": "#800080",
            "red": "#800000",
            "selectionBackground": "#FFFFFF",
            "white": "#C0C0C0",
            "yellow": "#808000"
        }
    ],
    "tabWidthMode": "equal",
    "theme": "dark"
}

 

 

-Win taskbar settings are:

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Great help thanks! Really . Mostly I was interested in the customisations on the taskbar.

Actually for Windows 11 Taskbar Group seem to really solve one of my problems. (Too many games, and too few shortcuts in the new start menu).

 

Love this forum and it awesome users. Thanks again.

[Frugivore8894]

On 9/20/2021 at 4:12 PM, 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.

 

Can you go in to more detail about how you did this I want something similar. 

[Mnky313]

My Surface still has my custom 'Project Blackout' tweaks (except using the pro 1809 image instead of LTSC because LTSC doesn't have Sketchpad).

Software:

Quote

7-Zip by Igor Pavlov

Audacity by The Audacity Team

Unlocker by IOBit

Notepad++ by Don Ho & Curriculum Vitae
OldNewExplorer by Tihiy (I don't think they have a webpage to link to so here's the page I downloaded it from)

Open-Shell (fork of Classic Shell by Ivo Beltchev)

Paint.net by DotPDN

Resource Hacker by Angus Johnson

Shutup10 by O&O Software (not actually installed, just ran once.)
SuperF4 by Stefan Sundin

T-Clock by White Tiger

UltraUXThemePatcher by Manuel Hoefs (and SecureUXTheme by namazso)

Vivaldi by Vivaldi Technologies™

WinXEditor by Winaero

ThemeSwitcher by Winaero
Sysinternals Suite by Microsoft
GnuWin32 by idk
Nircmd by NirSoft
NSudo by M2Team

Tweaks:

Quote

Disabled as much telemetry and background crap as I could find
Custom System-Wide Dark theme (based on xTheme by niivu) with script to fix issues on system unlock.
Enabled System Startup Sound
Added Sound Scheme for Windows 7 Sounds
Removed Quick Access and 3D Objects Folder
Disabled Game Mode & Game DVR
Enabled Hidden Files & File Extensions by default
Replaced default text editor with Notepad++
Disabled Action Center, People, and taskview Icon on Taskbar
Modified list of new files in context menu (removed contact & rtf, added bat, vbs, and png)
Added option to open CMD here (and here as Admin) in context menu
Added options to Reload Theme & Restart Explorer in desktop context menu
Removed the ability to print script files from the context menu (because Who the fuck prints bat files)

(More info here)

My main PC has similar tweaks (but a different slightly lighter theme because VA panels don't play nicely with white text on black...) but on 21H1 (waiting impatiently for LTSC 2021).
Oh yeah, and this cool Openshell theme and betterdiscord with way too many plugins + this cool teal+pink theme (the background is animated as well):

Edited September 29, 2021 by Mnky313
missing image

[Sir Asvald]

On 9/21/2021 at 2:56 PM, devo343 said:

My heavily themed windows 10 to look like XP 

How did you do it and how long did it take? I'd like to know.

 

 

[Deervo]

4 hours ago, Sir Asvald said:

How did you do it and how long did it take? I'd like to know.

Its farely easly i have a link to how i did it here note it uses window blinds 10 which is a 10$ program

i have changed the cursor from this tutorial to the xp gold cursor and edited the start menu skin.

 

4 hours ago, Sir Asvald said:

 

 

[Sir Asvald]

1 hour ago, devo343 said:

 

 

Thanks. 

[notR1ke]

On 9/20/2021 at 7:55 PM, rickeo said:

The older I get the more I realize how much a lot of that customization just breaks things over time. No thanks.

I really don’t agree. On windows, the mods u can do it’s just some simples mods. And the more “expert” mods u can install they are not gonna crash your pc. That can sometimes true on Linux bcs (for me) sometimes when I use some kind of “plugin” for Gnome, there is some kind of bug.

[Mark Kaine]

Just discovered this setting... a lot easier to use than the default "start menu" imo, and looks far better too!

 

 

[ColinLTT]

I just wanna say I posted this looking for inspiration for a build we have coming out very soon, but I'm super happy it's continued to live on - keep em coming! 

[Arika]

On 10/11/2021 at 9:41 PM, Mark Kaine said:

Just discovered this setting... a lot easier to use than the default "start menu" imo, and looks far better too!

 

Isn't that just tablet mode?

 

Maybe I'm missing something though

[Avocado Diaboli]

8 hours ago, Arika S said:

Isn't that just tablet mode?

 

Maybe I'm missing something though

It's the full screen start menu. I've been using it for ages, I like it more than the regular version. The only downside is that, as far as I know, you can't turn off the tiles completely like you can in the default start menu and set the app list as the default view. It always shows the tiles first. But you can just create a bunch of tile groups and organize your apps that way.

 

I actually wanted to use this on my work PC as well, but when I set it up that way and had one of our IT helpdesk guys remotely connect to my machine to fix an unrelated issue, he was trying to search something in the start menu and was totally confused by what he saw. Apparently this setting is fairly obscure to many people.

[BetteBalterZen]

On 9/20/2021 at 9:20 PM, Jokezonu said:

This is all I've done right now... I know its kind of basic but i like it.

Windows11gang :)

Wauw, that total transparent taskbar looks lovely! How did you do it? 

Edit: 
Aha, TranslucentTB I guess - shame it doesn't apply instantly when Windows is loaded and also shame it doesn't apply to windows. 

[hatoutofice]

I've done a few things, nothing much. Just some rainmeter, custom background and windows colour. Win10 btw

 

[Naveen Prashanth]

On 10/14/2021 at 9:46 PM, ColinLTT said:

I just wanna say I posted this looking for inspiration for a build we have coming out very soon, but I'm super happy it's continued to live on - keep em coming! 

Wow, exciting , waiting