▷ Complete guide to customize windows 10 to the maximum

Personalization is something that is within our DNA. If we are stuck to the computer for the least time we can do is customize Windows 10 to the maximum, leave it completely to our liking so that it is as comfortable and joyful as possible for us to work with our team. That is why today we are going to compile all our customization tutorials into one, in order to form the most complete guide possible on customizing the Microsoft system.

Index of contents

As it is logical to make an article developing everything that can be customized in our operating system would be too long. As we already have a large number of articles talking about different aspects of personalization, what we will do is link to each of them explaining what we can do.

In addition, we will show here some of the most striking tricks to transform our Windows 10 into something better, or at least more beautiful.

Change wallpaper

Well, somewhere we will have to start, and the most visible part of our team when we enter is precisely the background of our desktop. In this sense, what counts most is undoubtedly our ability and good taste to find the wallpaper that we like the most.

In our tutorial we have covered the following topics in order to help you as much as possible and provide you with some tricks:

• We will change the desktop background in different ways giving you some tips to improve the appearance We will find the directory where the themes store the images they bring We will see the best sites to download good backgrounds

Best wallpapers for Windows 10

Also, if your Windows is not activated, supposedly you will not have the possibility to change the wallpaper. But we know several tricks to get around these restrictions. For this reason, also visit the corresponding tutorial if this is your case.

Change wallpaper with Windows 10 without a license

How to put a video or animated background in Windows 10

As a complement to the above, we are going to show a method to install animated videos or backgrounds on our Windows 10 desktop. The previous section will be known by almost all, but this one surely not so many. This is why we will do it directly here.

Obviously, to do this, we will need third-party software. Among the options that exist, perhaps the best is RainWallpaper. This program is completely free and we can install it from its official website. The process for its installation is as simple as giving everything below.

Well, once installed, we will open it and we will have basically three buttons. The first is to look at the configuration options and the second is to directly access the Deviantart video section and download the animated background that we like the most. There is a lot to choose from and all of them are free.

To download them, click on the " Download " button on the upper right and it will automatically be stored in the program

And the third button is precisely to be able to see all the videos that we have downloaded and select the one that we like to place it as a background. In the configuration options we can make the program start with Windows to always have the animated background active

The RAM and CPU consumption of the program is quite low, taking into account the function it performs. We recommend that they be used on computers that have enough resources so as not to notice its background operation. Even so, the consumption that we have registered is about 70 MB of RAM and 4% of CPU.

When we have this program running, our equipment will not suspend or the screen will not turn off, since it interprets that we are watching a movie.

Have multiple desktops in Windows 10

The next thing we can do or rather know is how to get multiple desktops in Windows 10. Like other operating systems, Windows implements a function to be able to create multiple desktops to work simultaneously on a single screen. Surely many already know about this option, but it is worth mentioning it and leaving the corresponding tutorial here.

How to have multiple desktops in Windows 10

Install Skins on the desktop with Rainmeter

Rainmeter is a program that gives us the possibility to personalize our desktop at an incredible level using skins or skins that monitor our equipment or insert custom icon bars.

The program is completely free and also the skins that we can install. We have a very complete tutorial teaching:

• Download and install Rainmeter Main options and how to install skins Customize or create skins Places to download skins for Rainmeter

Install and use Rainmeter

Change Windows 10 theme

The next thing we can do to customize Windows is to change the theme. The topic consists of the configuration of Windows windows, as well as the representation of these, lock screen or other aspects. Although it is true that Windows in this aspect does not allow major modifications, you can enter our tutorial to see all the available options regarding the Windows 10 theme. We will show:

• How to access themes from the Microsoft store to download themesAll options about customizing it

How to change Windows 10 theme

How to put dark theme in Windows 10 and Microsoft Egde

In addition to the options we have to modify the Windows 10 theme, one of the most striking and recently implemented, is the possibility of activating the dark theme of Windows 10 so that our file explorer acquires a high-contrast appearance in black background.

It seems silly, but the truth is that this aspect suits him very well. And even more if we combine it with the color options of the folder border, start menu and notification bar. You can see all this quickly in the corresponding tutorial, where we will see how to get a good appearance with this theme.

How to apply dark theme in Windows 10

Install third party themes on Windows 10

One of the things that we surely miss the most is the possibility of installing third - party themes as easily as it happened in Windows XP. Even so, it is also possible to do it in Windows 10 with the installation of the UltraUXThemePatcher program, although this time we are not going to recommend it, although we will indicate how to proceed and where to download the themes.

UltraUXThemePatcher is a free program that patches our system to be able to install third-party themes with greater or lesser success on our computer.

The program warns us that we will be responsible for what we do on our team. The danger is not the program but the themes that we download, which can have faults or bad configurations that cause a worse performance of the system.

If this happens to us, what we will have to do is reverse the changes we make and leave everything as it was, without more. Once the program is installed, we will have to restart the machine for us to make changes.

Download and install custom Windows 10 themes

The next thing we will have to do is locate trusted websites to download the topics that we like for our system. Some of the possibilities we have are:

In these pages we will have mostly free themes that we can install in our system directly, such as by extensions " .themepack " or also manually like almost all of Deviantart

Practically all the topics that we will find will be paid, so each one must manage as best they can

When we download one of the themes we will look for a folder that has content similar to the image

We must place this folder in the following system path:

C: \ Windows \ Resources \ Themes

This path is where the Windows 10 themes are located. We will have to put all the content that comes in the folder that we have downloaded (theme and theme folder).

To apply the theme, all you have to do is double-click on the file with the extension " .theme " located outside the folder and the appearance of the system will automatically change.

We do not recommend installing third-party themes as we could get a system malfunction

Customize Windows 10 Start Menu

The next thing we can customize is our start menu. The Windows 10 start menu is the fusion between the classic start and the Windows 8 icon board. We have developed the following points in our tutorial:

• Change the color of the start icons and position Change the size of the menu Make the start menu transparent

How to customize the Start menu in Windows 10

Customize Windows 10 task bar

Now we will see what we can do to another element as important as the Windows 10 taskbar. We have enough tricks regarding this bar to make it a pretty good customization, always within what is safest for our team. We will see:

• Hide and lock the taskbar Move the taskbar Available buttons we have Disable notifications Place icons in the center of the taskbar

Customize Windows 10 taskbar

Make taskbar transparent in Windows 10

As a very interesting trick to customize Windows 10 to the maximum, we will see it directly here, and it is how to make the taskbar completely transparent in our system. We will do this through the Rainmeter program, with one of its installable skins.

This is called TranslucentTaskbar and we can download it for free from Deviantart from this link. To install in the program we will only have to double click on the downloaded file and it will be installed automatically

Now we open Rainmeter and display the skin directory. We double click to apply it and our bar will be translucent.

To make it completely transparent we will have to insert a small code inside the skin file. For this we right click on it and choose "Edit"

We write the following at the end of the file:

AccentState = 2

Now we will save the file and reload the skin so that the configuration is updated. The bar will be completely transparent and with the icons perfectly visible

Customize Windows icons

Now it's time to talk about the icons section of our system. Icons are an essential part of our team and we see them practically everywhere, not in vain they are the access key to our files and documents.

In our tutorial we have set out to carry out different icon customization actions without installing any program for it:

• We will remove or add the typical desktop icons We will change folder and shortcut icons We will visit the most interesting places to download free custom icons We will change the size of the system icons (desktop and browser)

Change icons in Windows 10

Resize system icons

Change all Windows 10 icons with IconPackager

IconPackcager is a "paid" program that will allow us to install icon packs to change almost all the icons on the system (less quick access icons). We can download it in a trial version from its official website.

It already natively brings interesting icon packs that will give a nice new look to our system. To download installable and own icon packs for this program, we can visit Deviantart. Each file that we download will have its own extension.

To install a pack we will have to open the program and located in the " Look & Feel " tab, click on the " Add Icon Package " option. We select the directory file and it will automatically be installed and visible in the lower area

To apply an icon theme we will only have to click on the “ Apply Icon Package ” button

Install Windows 10 cursors

We continue with the customization of the cursors of our system. In our tutorial that developed this topic we will do the following:

• Where is the option to change cursors How to change cursors independently Download and install custom cursors both manually and automatically

Install cursors on Windows 10

Install fonts in Windows and resize system fonts

A guide to customize Windows 10 to the fullest will not be complete if we do not touch the sources section. The sources is also a section that we have touched on in our tutorials. If you are a user who is dedicated to graphic design, you will surely be very interested in this section since you will learn:

• How to install fonts on the system Where to download free fonts How to change the size of system fonts

Install fonts on the system

Change font size in the system

There are also third-party programs to be able to change the fonts of our system, such as icon text, toolbars, etc. We do not recommend them, as we may run out of some of our system information or worse problems.

Activate screen saver in Windows 10

As you hear it, Windows 10 still has the screen saver tool. What is it for? Well, absolutely not at all, because our screens are no longer CRT, but who is not excited to have these precious infinite pipes on the screen again. That is why:

• We will activate the Windows screen saver We will learn to customize them And above all we will learn to install new screen savers (there is one from Matrix)

Install screen savers

Activate clipboard in the cloud in Windows 10

Thanks to the new Windows 10 October 2018 Update, the Windows clipboard is visible and we can also synchronize it to be able to copy and paste content on two different computers, as long as we have the same user in the system and it is a Microsoft account.

The problem is that, although it is quite green and only allows us to copy and paste from a PC to other plain text and images of less than 1 MB. Although it is worth having it activated if we have several teams at home.

Activate clipboard in the cloud

Rename team

It may seem silly to you, but sometimes changing the name of our team is extremely useful, especially if we have several computers connected in a network and we don't want to see that ugly name that Windows gives our team by default.

Rename team

Final score

Applying part of these procedures we can obtain interesting results. This already according to the time of each and creativity.

We must bear in mind that all the third-party applications that we use will consume a small percentage of RAM, it really is not too much, so in computers with good hardware they will go perfectly.

And the best of all is that in the procedures that we have carried out, we will not at any time put the integrity of our operating system at risk. As long as we do not try to install Third Party Themes with the application we have discussed.

Well, for now, this is all we propose in this guide to customize Windows 10 to the maximum.

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