Cordelia's Corner for the Complete Noob: Part 3
How to Revert to the Standard Desktop
Wednesday, January 5, 2005 by Cordelia | Discussion: OS Customization
Yesterday's article was a long, pedantic drone about installing the WindowBlinds program and downloading and installing skins for your computer. Today's article is about reverting to the original Windows skin, although why anyone would want to violate their computer in this way is beyond me. Now that I've been playing dress up with my computer for all of two weeks, the standard Windows style is tantamount to leaving my computer naked in a snowstorm, but hey, sometimes it has to be done, right?
You ready? Right click on the desktop. A menu pops up listing various exciting things you can do like "refresh". At the bottom you will find "properties". Click on that. This is the "Display Properties" dialogue window. Click on the "Appearance" tab. Go to the drop down menu that says "Windows and buttons". I am running Windows XP on my computer, so near the top of the list there is "Windows XP style". Click on it.
The preview shows me the shiny, boring - I mean blue! - Windows XP style. Click "Apply" and wait for a moment...and voila! Your computer is back to normal. [Computer shivers in the cold]. So simple even a noob like me can do it! Quickly now, before my poor computer gets a complex I'm throwing on a new skin...ah! Much better.
Daily Hint for the Noob: When you have WindowBlinds installed you can change your skin easily by going through these same steps. Once you have uploaded a few different skins, you can scroll through them just by using the Appearance tab in the Display Properties dialog box.
Tomorrow's Article: How to Make A Screen Shot
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Reply #2 Wednesday, January 5, 2005 11:21 PM
Reply #3 Thursday, January 6, 2005 12:24 AM
Download the logonstudio from stardock (it'll give you a link at the top of the library) and it should be a .logonxp file. After you've installed logonstudio, open it up and click on the Load button on the left side under the logons list, find the logon you had downloaded on your hard drive and click open, it should then appear in the logons list. Select the logon from the list and then click Apply, your new logon should then be setup.
Reply #4 Thursday, January 6, 2005 3:36 AM
| Once you have uploaded a few different skins |
Should that be downloaded?
Great read, although I, like you, avoid Luna like the plague.
Reply #5 Thursday, January 6, 2005 9:39 AM
Bebi - thanks for answering that one. I'm sure my answer would have been highly entertaining, as I have never used LogonStudio and would have had to make something up. I'm hoping to write something for all the programs, but I have to learn them first...
CerebroJD - you're right, I meant downloaded. I was just...um...testing you?
Reply #8 Thursday, January 6, 2005 1:41 PM
https://www.wincustomize.com/ViewSkin.aspx?SID=1&SkinID=235&LibID=34
Reply #11 Tuesday, January 11, 2005 9:08 PM
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Reply #1 Wednesday, January 5, 2005 5:47 PM