personalization

When planning a holiday event, you can stem the oncoming waves of panic by breaking down your tasks into three parts: Collaborate to get ready, Publicize to get your guests excited, and Personalize to make it special. This episode of the Office Show shows you how our intrepid hosts use those...

Hi - I'm trying to use older .theme files with Windows 7. The Personalize area doesn't recognize these themes so I'm trying to first apply them with a theme manager then save them in the Personalize area so they will be an up to date theme. However, I'm having trouble doing this. I've tried a...

Hopefully someone here can help me. I'll start out with the system specs. I'm running a Mac Pro with a bootcamp partition and Windows 7. I was really starting to like Windows 7 until I got into the personalization of it. The previous partition was XP and I had no problem customizing the HUD as...

Everything is gone, my background, the Start button, date time in the right hand corner, the entire task bar at the bottom of the screen. I have uninstalled the AVG update and restored to just prior to the update but everything is still gone. I can access the desktop from the My Documents...

I cant access any control panel applets I cant add "my computer" to my desktop If I select PERSONALIZE I get an "unspecified error" from explorer.exe I have a red X notification in the system tray but get no response to my selelction to access the Action center who knows, this could just...

Hello there , I just re-installed a new copy of windows ... I am noticing that I am unable to change (or get into the color changing) color setup menu. The place that let's you change the color and also opacity etc. I right click desktop - properties/personal setup - and below next to...

I think that this would be nice! Post a snapshot of your desktop, DO NOT CHANGE ANYTHING, just leave it the way it is RIGHT NOW :D Here is mine (it's been "untouched" since 3.6.2010) ~Brz

I've seen a few people with personalization issues, but none that are the same as mine. In my case, I'm trying to change the size of the "active title bar" from 40 point to 24 point. When I save the change, no problem. When I reboot, no problem. When I reboot a second time, it's back to 40...

With the latest theme offered to Windows 7 users Microsoft is marking a first, changing the manner in which it has been delivering personalization content for customers running the latest iteration of its Windows client. With the Bing Dynamic theme pack for Windows 7, the Redmond company is...

Hi well, i installed win7. i customized my desktop & all (to show my computer on the desktop for example)... i installed comodo firewall & avg antivirus. & after i restarted my pc all my customization was gone! i got the normal aero theme & all (that i previously canceled)... + the system...

Here are some new theme/wallpaper packs I just finished up. Hope you all like them. To install them, just download the zip and extract them to a place of your choosing. Next, click Start/Control Panel/Change Desktop Background and browse to where you placed them, expand the folder and click...

There are 36 Stateside Themes. I will add the rest as time permits. All packs are in 1024x768 resolution, which work great for 1440x900 and under. Each state contains no less than 6 wallpapers. To install them, just download the zip and extract them to a place of your choosing. Next, click...

I did something but dont know what every thumbnail is gone even in the control panel personalize section Yes I have done all the normal ways to get them back but no joy yes they were operational I did have a tweek program and reg cleaner installed it could have been that , but it crashed...

Hi I have problem installing ATI 5990 driver to the Windows 7 OEM. After I install it and doing restart, I can't see anymore desktop icon, nothing, only Desktop Backround. If I do CTRL+Alt+delete, screen goes black, then hitting ESC I can see the mouse, if I move little bit. I can do...

Hi I have asked about changing the Windows 7 Start UP Sound in the past and found it impossible to do. I can't change it or find the Windows one so that I can substitute my own for it. What I'm wondering is if after disabling the standard startup sound is there a way to write a .bat file or...

A stupid program (Livestream) asked me something about Vista aero stuff, but i did not pay attention so it switched the beautiful, transperent theme and windows t some XP-like theme. Window color form Personalization can be only solid now and is XP/VISTA style. Link Removed How I revert it back...

I changed my settings somehow when I first purchased my new laptop, which is running Windows 7. I wanted to turn off my desktop background and succeeded. Unfortunately, I can't get any backgrounds to display now. I have tried going into control panel and changing the background there and...

Hi, I checked many web site about this question. I seemed that an Aero theme doesn't allow me to change the default white background color in Windows Explorer. There is a way for a classical theme, though (personalization->windows color->Advanced appearance settings->window). I don't mind...

Hi everybody, i have an issue for the transparency settings here in my Dell inspiron 1464. They put Windows 7 Home Basic. I didn't get the options for "Personalize". Because of this i couldn't put the transparency effects. If anybody knew about this, how to put it and set the settings for...

Apparently, swapping the Aero and Basic themes of Link Removed - Invalid URL repeatedly is not such a great idea. Microsoft warned customers that multiple, back and forth changes between Aero and Basic would cause the operating Link Removed - Invalid URL to act up. Specifically, customers will...