Zxian's guide to Desktop Enchancements!

[harunaksoy]

Finderbar (requires .net Framwork 1.1)

Larger

Edited November 26, 2005 by harunaksoy

[matthewk]

Thanks for this harunaksoy, you rock

[MCT]

heres my fav systray clock program

http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=157465

[Zxian]

@gunsmokingman - I'll put that under the "hardcore" section of the guide.

@harunaksoy - Thanks for that. I'll test it out and add it to the list.

@MCT - It's already there...

@DivLog - Go advertise somewhere else. Several of your other threads regarding the tray clock program have been closed.

[unrealhippie]

Also nuonsoft Shellenhancer! www.nuonsoft.com

Edited December 30, 2005 by unrealhippie

[harunaksoy]

Thanks for this harunaksoy, you rock

hehe thanks here's the register file to show it as the default view, this ony works for XP SP2! so don't try it with another version, you might loose your tree view.

[wolf7448]

I love it!!! GREAT JOB!! must have took u some time to put it all together!

[Mocht4R]

Good work zxian!

It think you might wanna add Winroll. It just rolls up your window with a right click, its pretty nifty!

http://www.palma.com.au/winroll/

Edited November 30, 2005 by bms

[gunsmokingman]

Yes I am Hardcore Thanks

@gunsmokingman - I'll put that under the "hardcore" section of the guide.

[Lost Soul]

nice work Zxian its been awhile since i went customizing, thanks for a few of your pointers

[Martijn]

Maybe you could also include a link to Joejoe's site, it has good customisation resources.

[DarkWader]

The latter takes a bit of know-how, and should probably be described elsewhere by someone who's actually done it (DarkWader perhaps..?).

Ah, I didnt see this post before now.

I would have made that "howto" earlier, but since WB5 is released now, and mostly everyone has it, I wont bother doing that..

Unless someone begs me to

Its quite simple actually.

Resize the wallpaper to the screen resolution, cut the bottom of the wallpaper so that it will fit the taskbar.

Use Paintshop and create a 2 layer image, by using the taskbar bitmap and add a new layer that's around 70% opacue, paste the wallpaper cut and merge these two layers.

Use a program called ResEdit to edit the msstyle, and change the taskbar bitmap to the one you made in paintshop.

[SiMoNsAyS]

some people will also like to take a look to ÜberIcon

Edited December 15, 2005 by SiMoNsAyS

[Martijn]

It's a nice program, but it got a bit annoying somehow after a while...

[RJARRRPCGP]

Konfabulator - Konfabulator Link

I haven't played much with Konfabulator, but it offers a similar feature set to AveDesk. The advantage to Konfabulator is that there are hundreds upon hundreds of pre-made widgets available to download. The popularity of Konfabulator has increased recently since it used to be a paid-for software and is now freeware.

Warning, this link possibly bad. It redirected me to a site owned by Yahoo.