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    Windows 10 desktop background defaults

    Using Personalization to set desktop backgrounds always defaults to CENTER for positioning. I want to use the FIT positioning but every time the background changes (mine does daily) or when some apps run, the system resets the background to Center which fails to fill the screen with the images...
  2. Windows 8 Windows 8 No Aero

    Hey everybody. I'm having some trouble with my Windows 8.1 appearance, I was just wondering if somebody could help me... Is there any free way to get the Windows 7 aero glass into Windows 8.1? The aero glass in Windows Explorer in Windows 7 looks like this: See how the outline of the program...
  3. Interop between XAML and the Visual Layer

    The Composition APIs empower Universal Windows Platform (UWP) developers to do beautiful and powerful things when they drop down to the Visual Layer (as in the sample below). One of the remarkable things about these APIs is that they are designed, end-to-end, to integrate with the XAML Layer...
  4. 32-bit icons can't be loaded in OleLoadPictureEx in Windows

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  5. Windows 10 How Do I Customize My Buttons

    I wanted to make my Windows 10 look like Windows 7. So I went on the internet and found "How To Make A Windows 10 Computer Look And Feel Like A Windows 7 Computer". I followed all the steps and it turned out great but 1 bad part. I wanted the Close, Minimize and Maximize buttons to look like it...
  6. Awaken Your Creativity with the new Windows.UI.Composition

    We live and work in a fast-paced, real-time, information environment where the scarcest resource of all is not information itself, but human attention to that information. This is why user experiences and UI need to evolve to more effectively target human attention amid the cacophony of data and...
  7. Windows 10 SDK Build 10586 breakdown

    This week we released a new Windows 10 SDK. Let’s dive deeper into some of the Universal Windows Platform (UWP) improvements in the SDK update: Visuals, Effects, and Animations Introducing Windows.UI.Composition, a new API family that directly targets the UI foundation layer. The UI...
  8. How To: Switching to the Dark Theme in Microsoft Office 2016

    There's a new theme in town. Office 2016 offers a Dark Gray theme that can help alleviate eyestrain. read more Continue reading...
  9. How To: Customize the Background Picture in the Windows 10 Mail App

    By changing the Mail app background in Windows 10, you can truly own your email experience. read more Continue reading...
  10. Windows 10 Anyone seeing really small control panel icons?

    Like this... Link Removed and these are the large icons... Link Removed I've never had control panel look like this. Large icons used to fill the page. Maybe this goes along with my feeling that everything looks smaller then normal. That's why I increased all my type sizes, but these were...
  11. Windows 10 Display adjustment issue?

    Hi For as long as I can remember I've always set the slider for the size of type, icons etc, at 135%. This has always given me a reasonable size display without things looking to big or having issues with things fitting in windows etc. In the new version of Windows 10 the options on the slider...
  12. Magic Leap

    A startup is betting more than half a billion dollars that it will dazzle you with its approach to creating 3-D imagery. Availability: 1-3 years Link Removed
  13. 11 unforgettable Windows themes

    A day or two after I published my Link Removed, I suddenly realized that I’d completely forgotten to mention one of the new themes I’d been the most excited to bring you – Panoramas of Europe! So this time, I’m making sure to talk about it first. This theme is huge in several ways – it contains...
  14. VIDEO Body Evolution - Model Before and After

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  15. VIDEO 25 Images You Won't Believe Weren't Photoshopped

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  16. Windows 7 windows 7 theme

    hi, anyone help me how to get and install mac-style desktop Mac-style dock theme in my computer...
  17. Windows 7 bitmap fonts needed

    I need (widthXheight) 5x8 or 10x16 BITMAP fonts can i get them ready made if not is there way to automatically generate them from existing fonts? I have tried few software to manually create the fonts but thats a tedious and long process for the whole ASCII set. thanks
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    Windows 8 Awesome Wallpapers For Your Windows 8 Machine

    This is a Top 5 Wallpapers that look awesome on Windows 8 UI Nr.1 - Link Removed Nr.2 - Link Removed Nr.3 - Link Removed Nr.4 - Link Removed Nr.5 - Link Removed Wallpapers Source Website: Link Removed
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    Windows 7 Best upgrade from crossfire 5670 1GB

    Come tax return time I am looking at upgrading my graphics. 2013 was processor and mobo. Coming up is graphics. I am running an AMD Radeon 5670 crossfire. Both are fully stock 5670's with 1GB GDDR5 at 1000mhz and clock at 775mhz. I want to play the Fallout 3 and New Vegas games at full...
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    Windows 7 Weird glitch in Explorer

    Hey guys! I was wondering if you could help me out with this glitch my tree makes in explorer. Usually I'm able to search for a solution but I need names on the different assets in Explorer to do that. And since I dunno what the "tree" is really called I can't do a proper search. Anyways, I...