Towards a More Personal Windows 7
Posted on December 8th, 2009 by Cristina
A user’s most common reaction upon installing a new OS is to personalize it. Windows 7 allows you to do this in different ways from fine-tuning its colors, changing the desktop backgrounds, screensavers, sounds, mouse pointers, themes and a whole lot more.
Through this article you will see how Windows 7 will allow you to balance between aesthetics and performance, so read on …
- Color your World – Windows 7 gives you an option to choose from 16 different colors and set its intensity to either a bolder or a softer tone. An option to enable transparency is also available. Enable the Aero Glass feature to give your desktop a translucent and glassy effect.
- Make it your very own Desktop – Your very own Desktop can display a showcase of your photos, images and wallpapers. You can also create your own background images and customized them according to your preferences.
- Control your Screensaver – Whether it is just a still picture or an animation, customizing your screensaver will give you a sense of satisfaction as you see pictures and animations come to life when your mouse or keyboard is idle.
- Set your own Theme – Your own theme is comprised of a combination of photos, sounds, colors, menus, screensaver, icons and mouse pointers. Microsoft offers pre-built Theme packs or better yet you can set out to customize your very own theme complete with everything you want your desktop to be.
- Configure your Monitor – For your computer to set the best display you also need to configure your monitor’s settings either through its screen resolution, refresh rate and its color.
- Optimize your Visual Effects – Windows 7 interface has tons of graphical enhancements including visual effects for menus, toolbars, windows, and the taskbar. Windows 7 can help you customize your settings based on your priorities or choose for you the best configuration.
- Fine-tune your Apps Performance – Windows 7 allows you more control on the performance of your computer by better prioritization of which applications should run making background processes and housekeeping tasks take lesser toll on your PC’s total performance.
- Rig up your Virtual Memory – Windows 7 through paging allocates virtual memory to at least as large as the total physical memory installed on your computer or this can also be done manually by you. At the same time Windows 7 also introduces its Ready Boost which extends the disk-caching capabilities of the computer’s main memory to a USB flash device. With Ready Boost, Windows 7 will read flash devices up to 1000 percent faster than its physical disk drives. Overall, both boost the speed and performance of your machine.
Personalizing Windows 7 to suit your tastes and preferences will make your experience with your OS a more enjoyable and fulfilling one. Try to spend a few minutes now to do these and you bet you will curl up in satisfaction.
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