ViStart is a free program which will convert your boring looking xp start menu to the amazing looking vista start menu, it comes with all those features of vista start menu like search programs right away from start menu, fading menu icons and also have Multilanguage support for non english users
ViStart menu skin looks exactly like windows vista start menu and it also supports third party skins made at deviantart.
One of the most amazing feature I liked in windows 7 is it most useful and productive taskbar which consist of iconized taskbar items which can rearranged when and how you feel like arranging them.
The most amazing thing about the windows 7 taskbar is that it no longer displays the name of the programs, on the other hand it displays only icons by default which provides more space for other programs and opened windows to fit in
It will replace the normal taskbar of windows xp with this windows 7 like taskbar which is more beautiful and manageable for different windows and applications opened. It provide more space and good look feel as compared to the boring looks of windows xp taskbar.
After the release of windows vista and windows 7 beta, Windows XP looks so boring and monotonous as compared to the amazing look and feel of windows vista and windows 7.
We have recently written about a free transformation pack which lets you convert the look and feel of windows xp to windows 7, Vista Live Shell Pack is quite different as it changes the windows xp look and feel as well as the icons of windows xo to windows vista icons.
This shell pack will actually modify the system resources to change the windows xp look in windows live look, it will bring some awesome changes including cool new vista style start button and vista drive icons.
Windows 7 is looks much better than both windows xp and windows vista, so almost every user of windows wants to get rid of the boring looks of windows xp and vista.
Today, we will tell you about two free transformation pack developed recently which can transform windows xp or windows vista. These tarsformation packs has been designed by niwradsoft.
XP To Windows 7 Transformation Pack ( Via NirmalTV )
Seven Remix XP is another free transformation pack which lets you change the look and feel of your windows xp into windows 7
You could had annoyed some times when you may want to change the text below the My Computer, My Documents, Recycle Bin and My Network Places icon on your desktop but windows default behaviour will never let you change these names.
Desktop Renamer is small cool free utility which lets you change the name of My Computer, Recycle Bin, My Documents and My Network Places
Desktop Renamer runs on windows XP to later versions also like windows 98, Me, NT etc.
There are lot of times when we start our computer and after sometime left it running with all the applications opened as we may have some other important work.
In that case when you leave your pc running and you want all applications to keep running, then this free hibernate Screensaver could be very useful to save a large amount of energy and power.
Hibernate Screensaver will hibernate your computer after 2 minutes from the time when computer becomes idle, all your applications will kept in running state and your computer will enter a suspended state and will get hibernated.
When ever we browse or locate any application or file we do it through windows common dialogs box. Windows Common dialogs (Open and Save) have a PlacesBar that appears on the left side of the dialogs.
PlacesBar is small freeware program which lets you tweak and customize these locations on the place bar in the windows common dialogs
It lets you customize the location to a system folder, such as desktop, My documents, My pictures etc.
There are hell lot of themes available these days in the form of custom mssstyles which lets you change the look and feel of windows xp easily.
But, the main hindrance for applying custom mss styles on windows xp is due to uxtheme.dll which is a Microsoft system file in windows xp which blocks from using any custom mss styles.
So, before you can apply any mss styles you need to patch Microsoft system file, you can easily patch uxtheme.dll file with a small freeware program called UXTheme MultiPatcher
Let’s see how to use UXTheme MultiPatcher