Customizing Windows 7 ... I wish it were easy

Discussion in 'Windows 7' started by dumppq, Jul 28, 2009.

  1. dumppq

    dumppq MDL Junior Member

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    Kromgol MDL Junior Member

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    Right click on Taskbar > Properties > Taskbar Buttons dropdown > Choose Never Combine.

    A uxtheme patcher doesn't exist at this moment :( Not even the patched file exists ( I think ^^)
     
  3. dumppq

    dumppq MDL Junior Member

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    No ... I already have it like that (see screenshot), I just want to change the color of that white "highlight" for the selected Task (Firefox in that case).

    And thanks tomorrow, I'll check that out.

    One other one I forgot!

    04:: I hate those "Jump Lists"! I see that I can Shift+RightClick a task to get the old-school "context" menu instead ... is there anyway anybody knows of to swap that behaviour? Meaning, regular right-click gives the context menu and Shift-RightClick gives the JumpList?
     
  4. DKnight2066

    DKnight2066 MDL Junior Member

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    Speaking of Customization:

    Back during WinXP, SP2 days, I stumbled on a website that was an excellent reference to what Services you could disable, say on a Gaming system, without doing harm. (Drivers not loading, BSODs, Network/sound suddenly dead, etc.)

    Granted we are still -way- early into the lifespan of Windows 7, but I'm eager to see some kind of list on this subject, rather than just watch 600-800MB of my 2gig of RAM swallowed-whole by Win7, and not be able to do anything about it.

    I can tweak WinXP to load with 75MB of RAM used at startup...

    75mb... :D

    I'll never get that under Win7, but 600-800mb? Madness. lol

    --DKnight
     
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