Posts Tagged ‘folder background’
Posted June 18, 2010 – 1:58 pm in: Windows 7 Tweaks
Over the last few days, we covered some of the best tools available to customize your Windows 7 folder background. Today, we have another tool that lets you personalize a folder in Windows 7 with new color and icon.
With Folderico customizing Windows 7 folder icon and color is a fun. The beauty of this program is it integrates into the explorer shell so that you can personalize folders right from the context menu.
Posted June 15, 2010 – 6:00 pm in: Freeware
XnView is a handy extension for Windows explorer to view, edit, rotate and resize images right from the context menu (right-click menu). In other words, you need not to open an image editor to perform any of the above mentioned operations.
By installing XnView extension one can preview picture, picture name, size, resolution in the right-click menu itself. Other than that, it also displays Convert, Rotate, Edit IPTC, Send to ImageShack options in the context menu.
You can personalize the list of options… Continue reading
Posted June 11, 2010 – 3:30 pm in: Freeware
Almost all utilities available to change Windows 7 logon screen have one thing in common. They are all portable utilities. If you have a huge collection of applications, then finding your tool to change the logon screen is a tedious task.
So, why not integrate change logon screen option to desktop context menu so that you can change the logon screen quickly. Logon Screen tool is an application for Windows 7 that integrates into desktop context menu. In other words, after installing Logon Screen tool you will see Logon Screen… Continue reading
Posted June 11, 2010 – 2:58 pm in: Windows 7 Tweaks
There are quite a number of free applications available to customize Windows desktop context menu (right-click menu). In fact, we have covered several free tools such as Context Menu Editor that help you personalize context menus.
This time around, we want to share a simple and portable application to add your favorite program shortcuts to the desktop context menu. 7CMenuEditor is a tiny tool for Windows 7 to add program shortcuts along with custom icons.
How to use this tool:
Posted June 9, 2010 – 10:24 am in: Windows 7 Tweaks
Barely a day after we blogged about Windows 7 Folder Background Changer tool we have come across an awesome explorer extension that makes changing folder background even more simple.
The tool we are talking about is AveFolderBG. AveFolderBG integrates Change Folder Background option into Folder properties. In other words, you need not run any tool to start changing folder background image.
AveFolderBG is simply fantastic compared to other utilities as it integrates into the Windows shell to give you a quick access. It also lets you customize text color… Continue reading
Posted June 7, 2010 – 9:47 pm in: News
Today, at TechEd, Microsoft revealed that the beta version of Service Pack 1 (SP1) for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 is coming by the end of July.
As we have mentioned before, SP1 for Windows 7 will not contain any new features. For Windows 7, SP1 will simply be the combination of updates already available through Windows Update and additional hotfixes based on feedback by our customers and partners.
Service Pack 1 for Windows Server 2008 R2 will contain Microsoft Remote FX and Dynamic Memory features. It can… Continue reading
Posted June 7, 2010 – 12:49 pm in: Freeware
Windows 7 Folder Background Changer is a standalone tool for Windows 7 to change the default white background of folders with ease. The tool is simply fantastic as it is the only available tool for Windows 7 that can change the folder background image with a click.
With Folder Background Changer one can change the folder background image along with folder text color. The tool also lets you apply the changes to sub folders. Please note that one need to run this tool as administrator (right-click on the tool and select Run… Continue reading
There are loads of free utilities available to customize the good old Windows XP & its explorer. Another free utility to the XP explorer tweaking list is TweakXPlorer.
TweakXPlorer offers several ways to customize and enhance the explorer look quickly. With its simple-to-use interface giving a brand new look to the explorer is easier than ever. It lets you change folder background, customize explorer toolbar background, set any picture as folder thumbnail image, set thumbnail picture quality and more.
One can also set transparency level of Windows XP taskbar by using TweakXplorer. Additionally, this is a standalone program, meaning that you don’t need to install it. So, you can overhaul… Continue reading