30 Extremely Desktop Customization + Tools to Customize Your Own
30 Extremely Desktop Customization + Tools to Customize Your Own 4.4 out of 5 based on 16 votes.
If you're not keen on the cookie-cutter appearance of your OS or windows, we've covered a handful of great tools for tweaking every last pixel of your desktop so it looks and acts just how you want. These are all small things that can be changed to make the desktop experience more desirable, cutom and geared to our own interests.
In this Post collection of a few extremely desktop inspired customize, some users have designed some absolutely stunning creations Using some desktop tweaking software such as Rainmeter, Object Dock, Rainlende and others.
If you're not keen on the cookie-cutter appearance of your OS or windows, we've covered a handful of great tools for tweaking every last pixel of your desktop so it looks and acts just how you want. These are all small things that can be changed to make the desktop experience more desirable, cutom and geared to our own interests.
In this Post collection of a few extremely desktop inspired customize, some users have designed some absolutely stunning creations Using some desktop tweaking software such as Rainmeter, Object Dock, Rainlende and others.
Metro-Style Info Panel Desktop
Have you heard about this new thing called Windows 8? It has a nifty Metro-style UI, and reader Sebastian Nielsen put together a Windows 7 desktop to bring some of that style around a little early. Along with some other attractive customizations, it's today's featured desktop.
Archlinux Xmonad April 07 13 by KniRen
Archlinux Xmonad April 07 13 by KniRen
A Blurred Vision by zagortenay333
Updated Token icons on a Mac
Serenity Now! by pissnaround
Room of Shapes by: A State Of Flux
Faded and Desaturated by: rykennedyan
y v e s – h u y – t r u o n Desktop
Home Server Desktop by: GuimiAlfaro
My Current Desktop by: AlwafaPrince
The Mac Meets Windows Dual-Desktop by: Adam Pash
Come Together by: inaudiblewhisper
Lonestar Desktop by: Ted A. Borel
Windows Desktop in Monochrome by: Adam Pash
Windows 7 Desktop by: dick.fickling
Birdy – Left by: A State of Flux
Want to make your own? Here are three FREE utilities used to create and customize your own personal desktop.
1. Samurize is an advanced system monitoring and desktop enhancement engine for Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista. IT professionals, overclockers, gamers and desktop modders alike use Samurize for system information, weather reports, news headlines and much much more. And best of all, Samurize is 100% free!
2. RocketDock : brings a Mac OS X Dock-style application launcher to Windows for free. With RocketDock, you can minimize apps to your dock to thumbnails, tweak any of your icons, view real-time window previews from the dock (in Vista), and quickly launch any app. Like many of the other apps mentioned here
3. Rainmeter -”Rainmeter is a feature rich system meter with support for multiple layers of png images (just like Rainlender). It can measure all of the basic system statistics such as physical ram, virtual memory, swap, and hard drive space. When coupled with MBM5, it can measure system temperatures and fan speeds. Rainmeter also has the ability to display the time as an analog clock with second, minute, and hour hands. Also available as a Litestep module.”
4. ObjectDock – “ObjectDock is a program that enables users to organize their shortcuts, programs and running tasks into an attractive and fun animated Dock. By allowing users to have more control over how they organize their desktop, users can take control of their desktop icons and shortcuts to have them be available when where and how they need them. This, all with the unique style and top-rate performance that ObjectDock is known to deliver!”
5. Rainlender – “Rainlendar is a feature rich calendar application that is easy to use and doesn’t take much space on your desktop. The application is platform independent so you can run it on all major operating systems: Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.The appearance can be customized with skins and you can even mix different skins together.”
6. Emerge Desktop -- a free Windows shell replacement that swaps out the default Windows taskbar, start-menu, and right-click menu with its own alternatives
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