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Desktop Guide V3
This is the sequel to The V1 and V2. Shows a bit more things you can do with you desktop.
Contents
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Color Keys
Wheat-Sentences
RoyalBlue-Titles/Heading/Words
White-Misc
•WindowBlinds Vs CrystalXP
•Window Blinds Intro
•Window Blinds Downloads w/ Links
•Window Blinds Guide
•CrystalXP Intro
•CrystalXp Downloads w/ Links
•CrystalXP Guide
•CrystalXP Extras
•Icon Information
•Properties
•Organization
•Credits
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Window Blinds Vs Crystal XP
While most of you have windows blind, a very popular program to change the looks of your desktop, icons, cursors, and more. Theres an other program similar, yet different at the same time. It's called Crystal XP. Which allows to also change your desktop and theme. Whats the difference? Well, lets look at each one's Advantage and Disadvantage.
Window Blinds
Advantage
•Over 1000 Themes to choose from
•Simple to use
•Very Customizable
•Easy to get what you want
•Can Over Drive Everything in one program
Window Blinds
Disadvantage
•Time Trial
•Pay to have full version
•Requires a lot of memory, do to it's many programs needed to fit
•Takes awhile to download
•Many Programs needed
Crystal XP
Advantage
•A single program
•Very Sleek
•Everything window blind has in one download
•over boards everything
•Easy to use
•More Features then windows blind
•Offers a lot more
•Change anything you want
Crystal XP
Disadvantage
•Only 4 skins are available
•Not as popular
•Inserting new Icons to overboard is difficult
•Takes 30 minutes to Learn what it does
If you ask me, Window Blinds has skin's I'd choose over Crystal Xp. But Crystal XP is lifetime, thats why it's sticking with me.
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Window Blinds
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Window Blinds is a program that requires more programs in order for it to get what you want. Yet it's really simple to use, and offers a lot more then anything else you'd find on the internet. If you ready to put up with each programs that it takes, and it's trail offer. Yet you want a really cool skin. This is for you.
Downloads W/ Links
You'll need to download all of these, some of these are sites
WinCustomize (http://www.wincustomize.com/) - Site with all the skins, and more
Stardock (http://www.stardock.com/) - Download site, and more.
Bootskin (http://www.stardock.com/products/bootskin/) - Lifetime, works we'll with everything. Changes your boot screen
CursorXP (http://www.stardock.com/products/cursorxp/) - Overdrives your cursor
Icon Packager (http://www.stardock.com/products/iconpackager/) - Overdrives your Icon
Log on Studio (http://www.stardock.com/products/logonstudio/) - Overdrives your log on screen. Lifetime
Right Click (http://www.stardock.com/products/rightclick/)- Overdrives and customize your right click (Necessary)
WindowBlinds (http://www.stardock.com/products/windowblinds/) - The most important program
Theme Manager (http://www.stardock.com/products/thememanager/) - Controls all of the programs
WindowBlinds Guide
One All downloaded. Goto the link WinCustomize. Click on the tab called gallery. On the bottom right. It will say gallery, with a list of everything. Goto Suites, and explore until you find one that suits you. Then Install it. Once installed, open up theme manager. Goto The Skins tab, or theme tab. And you'll see a list of themes. Click on the one you uploaded it. If its not there, find and upload link. Then once you find it, install. It will ask you for some features you want in it. And it will also till you if you have any missing programs. Once installed, your computer will restart. And you will have a sweet suite.
Here's a Preview of mine, it's AlienWare Themed. Looks really nice. My favorite one. ->Click Here<- (http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y17/blevous/desktop-2.png)
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Crystal XP
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Crystal XP is actually the site. The Skin I'm actually going to talk about is called 'Windows Inspirat 2' Which is basically a fancy name For Windows Vista Theme. This skin is free and life time. And offers a lot more then window blinds, since they work specify on this program. It has some cool features which you can find out. And it's all one program. well, 4 things in 1 program.
Downloads w/ Links
Here are some links and downloads
CrystalXP - Homepage
BricoPack (http://www.crystalxp.net/bricopack/en.htm) - Just a tab in the homepage to take you to the skin page.
Windows Inspirat 2 (http://www.crystalxp.net/galerie/en.id.130.htm) - Theme Download Link
True Transparency (http://www.crystalxp.net/galerie/en.id.5139-truetransparency-lefreut-explorer-tools.htm) - Makes the bar of a the internet or file look clear.
Deviantart (http://www.deviantart.com/)Nothing to do with the site, but it has a lot of good backgrounds
CrystalXP Guide
Have windows xp, but you can't afford a vista. The sleek, really cool looking vista? And you hate d/l window blinds and it's 5 other Limited time programs to use it? We'll CrystalXP Offers what window blind can offer you and more. And it has no time trial and it doesn't cost a dime! Here's an example of my desktop.
>-Click here<- (http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y17/blevous/destoppwn-1.png)
Still not satisfied? Here are the features it includes! Well, when you download the program, it comes with 5. But the other 4 compile with the first one. So there aren't any other desktop icons and such. The first program is the Skin and overdrive. It will give you a Vista Start Bar,user bar, Sounds, Icons, and everything for you to feel vista like. It pretty much overdrives everything. you can even uninstall it to xp if you still don't like it. The next one is 'UberIcon' It gives an icon a non annoying cool effect when you click it. You can choose to enable it, or not to enable it. The 3rd is 'Rocket Dock' Which is a dock that stores all your icons (See the preview, it's on the top) You can choose which side of the screen you want it on. You can choose over 30 skins for it. it's totally customizable. That last one is to custumize the shadow/glow settings of your Open pages and programs. I'll talk about that later
To download the program, goto the site. Click on the tag called "Bricopacks" Then scroll down until you see Vista Inspirat 2 . There are 3 other skins, but in my opinion, Vista looks the best. Click on the download tab. After downloading it, Make sure you set it on English. Press ok, then it'll ask you 4 settings. Click the one where it says "Complete, or all features" so you'll get the full back. Once it's done, you'll have to restart you computer.
Ok! Now you got vista! Check out the start menu, right click "properties"
to see it's sleek look. once your done gazing it, look on the bottom right. See that yellow circle, make sure it's bright and has no X on it. Click it if it does, so you can activate it. Thats the uber icon thing. Then right click it, goto plug ins, and make sure it has the ibounce setting on. then right click again, and make sure it's checked off where is says "Run at start up." Then click on the icon next to it. It should look like a an open internet browser minimized into a half an inch icon. right click it, it might be in another language. So click the word saying "language" if you can't find it, it's the 2nd link from the top. Find your language , and right click again and goto settings. You should see some settings on which you can have a glow effect! it's really cool. I have mine set on Orange. You can play around with the settings. But heres my settings. Choose your color. make sure you click active windows,and the one below it which says "use the same shadow effect on active and inactive windows". That makes it glow on all the windows you have open. The here are the number settings. Left = 30 | Right = 30 | Bottom = 30 | Depth - 110 | Top = 0| Offset to an inner side = 5| There, now you have your glow. There are 3 other tabs on top, i didn't mess with them. But you can feel free to. Lastly, the RocketDock. Which is on top. First, i deleted the programs i didn't want up there. And add my programs in an organized way. On the left side of the dock are my messengers, the 2nd one is my games, the 3rd are my common programs, and the right is my other. All you have to do is drag it there. and to get rid of a program there, all you have to do is drag it off, and it will 'poof' and disappear. Right click on the dock and click "dock settings" there are some settings you may want to check. here are a few of mine. On Icons Tab, I chose my quality on the highest, and my hover effect is on bubble. On the style tab, i kept it at vista black, and check the lettering color. on the Behavior tab, i kept the icon attention effect i Bounce. Also, if you right click an icon, and click 'Color Label' you can actually change the folder color. It's really neat stuff
Enjoy you windows vista look! Impress you friends!
CrystalXP Extras
If you explore the site. There's a guide to make penguins. And theres a huge gallery where you can show them off. If you goto the forums, you'll notice it's basically a GFX site. With a lot of good tutorials, and pretty active. The site is easy to maneuver. They have a lot of downloads to offer. Such as True Transparency. Like i listed in the downloads, it makes your Bar ontop of files and the internet look clear. It goes good with everything. m using it as i type this. This site has a lot to. And you can learn so much from it.
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Icon Information
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Icons make everything looks cooler. I have all my icons changed and everything. You may not know how to use them, so i;m going to mention this.
Icon is the label or cover of a program. It's like a book cover. It whats makes you want to click it.
If you right Click and icon, you get a few options. Cut,Copy,Delete,Rename, And Create Shortcut. Cut, makes it so when you paste it somewhere, it'll delete the original . The rest are obvious. There are a few other options, but I'm not going to get into them. The one you need to click now it settings. It tell you the information of it in the General Tab. It's size, Size on Disk, and what it has. This one folder i have, which contains alot of my programs(i made this folder myself) has 479 MB and over 40,000 files. Thats a lot, you'll probably have, depending on which folder, a whole lot less then this. The word space on top allows you to rename it. If you goto the customize tab, it allows you to basically customize it. You can add a picture to the icon, or what i like to do is change the icon itself. First, you have to download an icon from a site. CrystalXP or WinCustomize has a lot. Download.com may have some. Anyways, go back to the tab. click change icons. You'll see some of the basic icons there. Goto Browse, goto desktop or where ever you downloaded the file, and click it. Now your icon is changed. Now for some tricks. Lets say you have to hide a file, like porn or something. something you want nobody to touch, or find out. You can hide it, on the desktop. The best way to hide materials on windows XP is by this method.
Step 1
First create a new folder.
Right Click - Select ’New’ - Select Folder.
http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b168/CreateAMuck2/E1.jpg
http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b168/CreateAMuck2/E2.jpg
Step 2
Now you will see your new folder.
http://photobucket.com/albums/b168/CreateAMuck2/th_E3.jpg
Now rename the folder by this method:
Hold down the ’ALT’ Key (in between ’z’ & ’x’)
And Type:
0
1
6
0
And then release the ’ALT’ key.
The folder name would now look like this:
http://photobucket.com/albums/b168/CreateAMuck2/th_E4.jpg
Step 3
Now right click the folder icon and select properties.
http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b168/CreateAMuck2/E5.jpg
Then - Customize - Change Icon -
Step 4
Now find a space between the icons. This will be an invisible icon.
http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b168/CreateAMuck2/E7.jpg
You will now notice an invisible folder other than when you click on it you will see a little blue highlight.
http://photobucket.com/albums/b168/CreateAMuck2/th_E8.jpg
Now move the folder where nobody would expect it, like on the bottom or top of the screen.
http://photobucket.com/albums/b168/CreateAMuck2/th_E9.jpg
Nice little trick to keep you safe from prying eyes. If yuo need some more invisible folders, just type 0 1 6 0 again, since you can't have folders with the same name. Also, if you want to make your icons disappear. Just to see your background. Right click anything. Click on 'arrange icons by' then uncheck 'show desktop icons' It'll make them disappear. You can get them back by doing everything again.
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Properties
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Everyone know this, but I'm going to mention it anyway. You may learn something
Theme - Nothing much. Change you theme. Modified theme is the one you changed (Windows Blinds or Crystal XP, or what you manually did) You can even go to the windows 98 theme.
Desktop - Change wallpapers. You can change the positions by stretching it or tiling it. if you have it on centered, you can have a background color. If you want to upload something, goto browse and find it.
Screen Savor - You can choose your on Screen savor. If you click on settings, you can actually change the style of each screen savor. If you goto 3D Pipes<settings<choose texture<Ok you get this candy pipes.
Appearance - You can choose The Bars on the Internet and such with the skins you downloaded, or programs. You can choose schemes, depending on the program you downloaded. You can change the fonts and such. If you goto effects, you can add shadowing or other things. It's not much. If you goto Advance, you can make you very own basic Skin theme. I did this before i knew about window blinds.
Settings - Just changes the quality of things
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Organization
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have a messy desktop? programs and icons scattered everywhere? We'll this happens every week. I always make pictures and documents. And sometimes download programs. You can't help it. You can get rid of everything if you just do the invisible icon trick. or you can Make a folder called programs. Within it, make folders called Pictures, Music, essays, misc. Then i put everything in there. Or i delete them. You can also right click, arrange icons by, and choose the order you wish to do it. make it so there arn't icons all over the place.I do this every week or so, because i like having a clean desktop.
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Credits
=-=-=
•Live
•Stickpage
•Youtube
•WindowBlinds, Stardocks, WinCustomize
•CrystalXP
Enjoy, i hope this helps you out.Feel Free to post your desktops
This is the sequel to The V1 and V2. Shows a bit more things you can do with you desktop.
Contents
=-=-=
Color Keys
Wheat-Sentences
RoyalBlue-Titles/Heading/Words
White-Misc
•WindowBlinds Vs CrystalXP
•Window Blinds Intro
•Window Blinds Downloads w/ Links
•Window Blinds Guide
•CrystalXP Intro
•CrystalXp Downloads w/ Links
•CrystalXP Guide
•CrystalXP Extras
•Icon Information
•Properties
•Organization
•Credits
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Window Blinds Vs Crystal XP
While most of you have windows blind, a very popular program to change the looks of your desktop, icons, cursors, and more. Theres an other program similar, yet different at the same time. It's called Crystal XP. Which allows to also change your desktop and theme. Whats the difference? Well, lets look at each one's Advantage and Disadvantage.
Window Blinds
Advantage
•Over 1000 Themes to choose from
•Simple to use
•Very Customizable
•Easy to get what you want
•Can Over Drive Everything in one program
Window Blinds
Disadvantage
•Time Trial
•Pay to have full version
•Requires a lot of memory, do to it's many programs needed to fit
•Takes awhile to download
•Many Programs needed
Crystal XP
Advantage
•A single program
•Very Sleek
•Everything window blind has in one download
•over boards everything
•Easy to use
•More Features then windows blind
•Offers a lot more
•Change anything you want
Crystal XP
Disadvantage
•Only 4 skins are available
•Not as popular
•Inserting new Icons to overboard is difficult
•Takes 30 minutes to Learn what it does
If you ask me, Window Blinds has skin's I'd choose over Crystal Xp. But Crystal XP is lifetime, thats why it's sticking with me.
=-=-=
Window Blinds
=-=-=
Window Blinds is a program that requires more programs in order for it to get what you want. Yet it's really simple to use, and offers a lot more then anything else you'd find on the internet. If you ready to put up with each programs that it takes, and it's trail offer. Yet you want a really cool skin. This is for you.
Downloads W/ Links
You'll need to download all of these, some of these are sites
WinCustomize (http://www.wincustomize.com/) - Site with all the skins, and more
Stardock (http://www.stardock.com/) - Download site, and more.
Bootskin (http://www.stardock.com/products/bootskin/) - Lifetime, works we'll with everything. Changes your boot screen
CursorXP (http://www.stardock.com/products/cursorxp/) - Overdrives your cursor
Icon Packager (http://www.stardock.com/products/iconpackager/) - Overdrives your Icon
Log on Studio (http://www.stardock.com/products/logonstudio/) - Overdrives your log on screen. Lifetime
Right Click (http://www.stardock.com/products/rightclick/)- Overdrives and customize your right click (Necessary)
WindowBlinds (http://www.stardock.com/products/windowblinds/) - The most important program
Theme Manager (http://www.stardock.com/products/thememanager/) - Controls all of the programs
WindowBlinds Guide
One All downloaded. Goto the link WinCustomize. Click on the tab called gallery. On the bottom right. It will say gallery, with a list of everything. Goto Suites, and explore until you find one that suits you. Then Install it. Once installed, open up theme manager. Goto The Skins tab, or theme tab. And you'll see a list of themes. Click on the one you uploaded it. If its not there, find and upload link. Then once you find it, install. It will ask you for some features you want in it. And it will also till you if you have any missing programs. Once installed, your computer will restart. And you will have a sweet suite.
Here's a Preview of mine, it's AlienWare Themed. Looks really nice. My favorite one. ->Click Here<- (http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y17/blevous/desktop-2.png)
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Crystal XP
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Crystal XP is actually the site. The Skin I'm actually going to talk about is called 'Windows Inspirat 2' Which is basically a fancy name For Windows Vista Theme. This skin is free and life time. And offers a lot more then window blinds, since they work specify on this program. It has some cool features which you can find out. And it's all one program. well, 4 things in 1 program.
Downloads w/ Links
Here are some links and downloads
CrystalXP - Homepage
BricoPack (http://www.crystalxp.net/bricopack/en.htm) - Just a tab in the homepage to take you to the skin page.
Windows Inspirat 2 (http://www.crystalxp.net/galerie/en.id.130.htm) - Theme Download Link
True Transparency (http://www.crystalxp.net/galerie/en.id.5139-truetransparency-lefreut-explorer-tools.htm) - Makes the bar of a the internet or file look clear.
Deviantart (http://www.deviantart.com/)Nothing to do with the site, but it has a lot of good backgrounds
CrystalXP Guide
Have windows xp, but you can't afford a vista. The sleek, really cool looking vista? And you hate d/l window blinds and it's 5 other Limited time programs to use it? We'll CrystalXP Offers what window blind can offer you and more. And it has no time trial and it doesn't cost a dime! Here's an example of my desktop.
>-Click here<- (http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y17/blevous/destoppwn-1.png)
Still not satisfied? Here are the features it includes! Well, when you download the program, it comes with 5. But the other 4 compile with the first one. So there aren't any other desktop icons and such. The first program is the Skin and overdrive. It will give you a Vista Start Bar,user bar, Sounds, Icons, and everything for you to feel vista like. It pretty much overdrives everything. you can even uninstall it to xp if you still don't like it. The next one is 'UberIcon' It gives an icon a non annoying cool effect when you click it. You can choose to enable it, or not to enable it. The 3rd is 'Rocket Dock' Which is a dock that stores all your icons (See the preview, it's on the top) You can choose which side of the screen you want it on. You can choose over 30 skins for it. it's totally customizable. That last one is to custumize the shadow/glow settings of your Open pages and programs. I'll talk about that later
To download the program, goto the site. Click on the tag called "Bricopacks" Then scroll down until you see Vista Inspirat 2 . There are 3 other skins, but in my opinion, Vista looks the best. Click on the download tab. After downloading it, Make sure you set it on English. Press ok, then it'll ask you 4 settings. Click the one where it says "Complete, or all features" so you'll get the full back. Once it's done, you'll have to restart you computer.
Ok! Now you got vista! Check out the start menu, right click "properties"
to see it's sleek look. once your done gazing it, look on the bottom right. See that yellow circle, make sure it's bright and has no X on it. Click it if it does, so you can activate it. Thats the uber icon thing. Then right click it, goto plug ins, and make sure it has the ibounce setting on. then right click again, and make sure it's checked off where is says "Run at start up." Then click on the icon next to it. It should look like a an open internet browser minimized into a half an inch icon. right click it, it might be in another language. So click the word saying "language" if you can't find it, it's the 2nd link from the top. Find your language , and right click again and goto settings. You should see some settings on which you can have a glow effect! it's really cool. I have mine set on Orange. You can play around with the settings. But heres my settings. Choose your color. make sure you click active windows,and the one below it which says "use the same shadow effect on active and inactive windows". That makes it glow on all the windows you have open. The here are the number settings. Left = 30 | Right = 30 | Bottom = 30 | Depth - 110 | Top = 0| Offset to an inner side = 5| There, now you have your glow. There are 3 other tabs on top, i didn't mess with them. But you can feel free to. Lastly, the RocketDock. Which is on top. First, i deleted the programs i didn't want up there. And add my programs in an organized way. On the left side of the dock are my messengers, the 2nd one is my games, the 3rd are my common programs, and the right is my other. All you have to do is drag it there. and to get rid of a program there, all you have to do is drag it off, and it will 'poof' and disappear. Right click on the dock and click "dock settings" there are some settings you may want to check. here are a few of mine. On Icons Tab, I chose my quality on the highest, and my hover effect is on bubble. On the style tab, i kept it at vista black, and check the lettering color. on the Behavior tab, i kept the icon attention effect i Bounce. Also, if you right click an icon, and click 'Color Label' you can actually change the folder color. It's really neat stuff
Enjoy you windows vista look! Impress you friends!
CrystalXP Extras
If you explore the site. There's a guide to make penguins. And theres a huge gallery where you can show them off. If you goto the forums, you'll notice it's basically a GFX site. With a lot of good tutorials, and pretty active. The site is easy to maneuver. They have a lot of downloads to offer. Such as True Transparency. Like i listed in the downloads, it makes your Bar ontop of files and the internet look clear. It goes good with everything. m using it as i type this. This site has a lot to. And you can learn so much from it.
=-=-=
Icon Information
=-=-=
Icons make everything looks cooler. I have all my icons changed and everything. You may not know how to use them, so i;m going to mention this.
Icon is the label or cover of a program. It's like a book cover. It whats makes you want to click it.
If you right Click and icon, you get a few options. Cut,Copy,Delete,Rename, And Create Shortcut. Cut, makes it so when you paste it somewhere, it'll delete the original . The rest are obvious. There are a few other options, but I'm not going to get into them. The one you need to click now it settings. It tell you the information of it in the General Tab. It's size, Size on Disk, and what it has. This one folder i have, which contains alot of my programs(i made this folder myself) has 479 MB and over 40,000 files. Thats a lot, you'll probably have, depending on which folder, a whole lot less then this. The word space on top allows you to rename it. If you goto the customize tab, it allows you to basically customize it. You can add a picture to the icon, or what i like to do is change the icon itself. First, you have to download an icon from a site. CrystalXP or WinCustomize has a lot. Download.com may have some. Anyways, go back to the tab. click change icons. You'll see some of the basic icons there. Goto Browse, goto desktop or where ever you downloaded the file, and click it. Now your icon is changed. Now for some tricks. Lets say you have to hide a file, like porn or something. something you want nobody to touch, or find out. You can hide it, on the desktop. The best way to hide materials on windows XP is by this method.
Step 1
First create a new folder.
Right Click - Select ’New’ - Select Folder.
http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b168/CreateAMuck2/E1.jpg
http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b168/CreateAMuck2/E2.jpg
Step 2
Now you will see your new folder.
http://photobucket.com/albums/b168/CreateAMuck2/th_E3.jpg
Now rename the folder by this method:
Hold down the ’ALT’ Key (in between ’z’ & ’x’)
And Type:
0
1
6
0
And then release the ’ALT’ key.
The folder name would now look like this:
http://photobucket.com/albums/b168/CreateAMuck2/th_E4.jpg
Step 3
Now right click the folder icon and select properties.
http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b168/CreateAMuck2/E5.jpg
Then - Customize - Change Icon -
Step 4
Now find a space between the icons. This will be an invisible icon.
http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b168/CreateAMuck2/E7.jpg
You will now notice an invisible folder other than when you click on it you will see a little blue highlight.
http://photobucket.com/albums/b168/CreateAMuck2/th_E8.jpg
Now move the folder where nobody would expect it, like on the bottom or top of the screen.
http://photobucket.com/albums/b168/CreateAMuck2/th_E9.jpg
Nice little trick to keep you safe from prying eyes. If yuo need some more invisible folders, just type 0 1 6 0 again, since you can't have folders with the same name. Also, if you want to make your icons disappear. Just to see your background. Right click anything. Click on 'arrange icons by' then uncheck 'show desktop icons' It'll make them disappear. You can get them back by doing everything again.
=-=-=
Properties
=-=-=
Everyone know this, but I'm going to mention it anyway. You may learn something
Theme - Nothing much. Change you theme. Modified theme is the one you changed (Windows Blinds or Crystal XP, or what you manually did) You can even go to the windows 98 theme.
Desktop - Change wallpapers. You can change the positions by stretching it or tiling it. if you have it on centered, you can have a background color. If you want to upload something, goto browse and find it.
Screen Savor - You can choose your on Screen savor. If you click on settings, you can actually change the style of each screen savor. If you goto 3D Pipes<settings<choose texture<Ok you get this candy pipes.
Appearance - You can choose The Bars on the Internet and such with the skins you downloaded, or programs. You can choose schemes, depending on the program you downloaded. You can change the fonts and such. If you goto effects, you can add shadowing or other things. It's not much. If you goto Advance, you can make you very own basic Skin theme. I did this before i knew about window blinds.
Settings - Just changes the quality of things
=-=-=
Organization
=-=-=
have a messy desktop? programs and icons scattered everywhere? We'll this happens every week. I always make pictures and documents. And sometimes download programs. You can't help it. You can get rid of everything if you just do the invisible icon trick. or you can Make a folder called programs. Within it, make folders called Pictures, Music, essays, misc. Then i put everything in there. Or i delete them. You can also right click, arrange icons by, and choose the order you wish to do it. make it so there arn't icons all over the place.I do this every week or so, because i like having a clean desktop.
=-=-=
Credits
=-=-=
•Live
•Stickpage
•Youtube
•WindowBlinds, Stardocks, WinCustomize
•CrystalXP
Enjoy, i hope this helps you out.Feel Free to post your desktops