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Desktop: exquisite wallpaper, Dock bar, widgets.
Taskbar: transparent, icon centered, personalized signature
Start menu: beautify tiles, repair pictures, and more tiles.
Desktop: exquisite wallpaper, Dock bar, widgets.
As the main interface of the computer, the desktop can be positioned as a workbench or a file transfer station. It is not recommended to put too many applications on the desktop.
When receiving or downloading files, most people will choose to store them on the desktop. After all, desktop files are easy to access and share at any time. But if you don't arrange it in time, it will become a dense pile of files, so form a good habit of filing in time to make the desktop more tidy and beautiful.
In order to have a simple and beautiful desktop, wallpaper plays an important role.
Worried about not finding good wallpaper? Still afraid to look at the same wallpaper? No problem, "Glug" will help you with everything. Not only can you set the pictures in Unsplash gallery as wallpaper, but you can also change them automatically at regular intervals, which supports automatic wallpaper change in the shortest time 15 minutes. At the same time, you can filter keywords, such as setting "natural" as the keyword to ensure that all colors change.
Since only files are stored on the desktop, where are the commonly used applications? At this time, you can install a Dock bar for Windows like a Mac.
"RocketDock" allows you to fix commonly used programs on the Dock bar, and can be set to always be at the front, and open commonly used applications with one click. A variety of skins to choose from, perfectly matching the overall desktop style.
The final desktop beautification scheme still has to mention the powerful Rainmeter, which provides highly customized desktop widgets.
If you have a programming foundation, just learn its grammar rules and you can write the desired widget in a short time. Of course, it is not impossible to be a hand-in-hand party. Rain gauge has its perfect community, which is enough to meet your beautification needs.
Taskbar: transparent, icon centered, personalized signature
As a front-end interface, the taskbar displays the currently started applications and some important information. At the same time, the "display desktop" in the lower right corner allows you to return to the desktop with one click, which can be said to be the "Home button" of the computer. Whether you need to automatically hide the taskbar or merge button depends on your needs, which varies from person to person.
On the desktop interface, this black bar on the taskbar doesn't look appropriate. Fortunately, some programmers think so, so there is TranslucentTB, which can make your taskbar transparent, or further, automatically return to the original state when displaying the maximized program. The transparent taskbar makes the wallpaper better displayed and more beautiful.
As an obsessive-compulsive disorder patient, it is inevitable that I will feel disobedient when I look at the crowded application icon, so I always try to center it.
An easy way is to right-click the taskbar, select Toolbars-New Toolbar, and then select a folder. A separator bar appears for dragging. Just drag to the left until it switches with the application icon, and then drag the icon to center it.
What should I do if I want to customize my own exclusive signature so that others will know it is your computer as soon as they see it? Open Control Panel-Clock and Zone-Change Date, Time or Number Format-Other Settings-Time, and then change the morning symbol and afternoon symbol to your own phrases. Look at the taskbar again at this time, and you will find that your name has been engraved on the time.
Start menu: beautify tiles, repair pictures, and more tiles.
As an application launcher, the start menu is responsible for starting all applications. We can fix the application icon on the start screen and start the application directly in the start menu.
Compared with desktop shortcuts, the start menu button is always at the front. Press "Win" on the keyboard to open the start menu and start the application without returning to the desktop.
But I don't know why the background of tiles can't be unified, so there are always "different" tiles mixed in. Tile color can help you solve this problem. By adjusting the background color and text color of the tile, the overall style can be unified. You can also classify applications by color, and you can find the desired application at a glance.
The start menu can not only repair the application, but also let you use the tile wizard to turn your favorite photos into tiles of the start menu.
The picture can be divided into multiple tiles, which can be wide tiles or square tiles. You can also set up multiple pictures to play circularly and scroll. In addition, you can set the action when clicking, but only support setting web links, where you can store commonly used websites.
Do you want to add more tiles besides apps? "Pin More" provides the function of adding folders and files, and you can customize the tile icon and tile size, so that you can store common files in the start menu, and you don't need a first-level resource manager anymore. In addition, it also provides the reset of Battle.net, Uplay, Steam and other game tiles to make your tiles look better.
Through some gadgets and tips introduced here, I believe you can create your own high-performance "Windows facade". But in the final analysis, the purpose of beautification is for the efficiency of work and the pleasure of mood. If you don't want to toss about so much, you might as well return to the original state, which may be the best.