Most users of computers and laptops, having installed and started using the next version of Windows, believe that developers will never be able to please everyone. Everyone wants to configure and change everything for themselves as conveniently as possible. In order to display important processes online, the necessary programs were at hand, and in general, so that everything looked individually, brightly, and beautifully. Typically, the desktop is the main goal of change.
This article presents several popular utilities and programs for the desktop - for Windows 7, 8, 10 and XP, which will help change your desktop beyond recognition.
Russified Windows 7 Boot Updater
A small utility that can replace the text of the boot window and animation in Windows 7. You can replace the main animation - change the background color, Windows flag and text.
The program is quite safe and easy to operate. With it, you can also change the messages that appear when you exit hibernation.
The Windows desktop and interface design in the program consists of two parts: on the one hand, a preview of the finished results, where changes are displayed, a slider for viewing animation effects and a button for viewing full-screen modes. On the other hand is a panel in which all changes occur. It has two tabs - “Recovery” and “Download”. The first is needed to restore and change the screen when exiting hibernation, the second is to change the boot screen. Below you can change the background color.
In case of any incorrect action, you can easily reset all changes by the “Restore from backup” item in the settings.
Features and functions:
- Russified interface;
- simple operation;
- creating backup copies of files;
- protection against wrong actions;
- Change texts, animations and colors of the boot screen;
- works on all versions of Windows 7;
- change the screen when exiting sleep mode;
- You can work both with the interface and through the command line.
Talking clock
This utility will install a convenient clock on your desktop that periodically tells the current time. You can configure the pronunciation when you double-click the mouse for hours, or automatically.
The advantage of this desktop program for Windows 7 is that you will not need to minimize already open applications and games to see the time. With Talking Clock, you will know the current time without being distracted from business. The program has an alarm clock and calendar.
Advantages:
- There is a timer, alarm clock, pretty elegant interface.
- You can install it on top of all windows and disable this option if necessary.
Testimonial: quite working talking hours, capable of tearing you away from an exciting game, pronouncing the current time every half an hour or an hour.
Bumptop
A program for the desktop Windows 7 and XP, which will expand the capabilities of your desktop, making it three-dimensional. The current desktop will appear in the form of a bottom, and additional surfaces will become snacks. By double-clicking on the wall, you will flip the cube and it will focus on the elements of the other wall.
You can stack several items on the desktop in piles. To do this, you need to outline several of them with the mouse, and select the Create Pile item in the menu that appears.
By default, the walls contain social media labels and a sticker for notes, as well as a window with dynamically changing images from a computer. Between the walls you can drag any icons.
All actions inside the cube are colorfully animated. When moving, the icons glide over the ice and bounce, hitting the wall. And the cube scrolls effectively when moving to one of the walls. When you double-click the icon to open a program or document, it first grows, and then flies into the plane of your screen.
The disadvantage of this program for the desktop in Windows 7 can be considered not fully Russified interface, but this does not detract from its merits.
Classic Shell app
This program for the desktop and for Windows 7 will restore functionality that was removed from previous versions of Windows: the classic Start menu, toolbar, and many other smaller functions.
In addition, the Classic Shell utility offers a more familiar classic look of Windows Explorer with functions:
- add a toolbar with the most popular operations (properties, copy, delete, paste, etc.), the panel is fully customizable;
- change the dialog for copying folders and files to a more familiar one;
- process Alt + Enter in Windows Explorer and show the properties of the desired element.
And in Internet Explorer, the following new options will become available:
- in the status bar of the browser - showing the download process;
- at the top of the window a title with the full title of the page has been added
- in the status line - display of safe zones.
Appendix 7 Sticky Notes
An original utility for creating notes and attaching them to the desktop. This Windows 7 desktop program will break notes into categories and groups, distribute them on multiple virtual desktops, and also allow you to synchronize notes through the World Wide Web.
Sticky notes you create can be activated at a predefined time. Notification - by a sound signal. Moreover, each note may contain not only a text entry, but also attached files, pictures, links to documents and folders. Stickers can be “glued” to each other, aligned on a grid or automatically adjust the size for printed text.
7 Sticky Notes allows you to use a variety of visual effects - color schemes, transparency effect. The text design of the sticker can be fully customized: specify the font size, its style and color, the shade of the note itself. You can also centrally manage the created note using the manager, view statistics of existing notes and use the built-in search.
The program is able to create a backup copy of the database, as well as support the import and export of notes.