![]() ![]() Moving your mouse to the far right will cause it to appear with a second or two. When hidden, all you see is about 5 pixels of the sidebar along the right side of the screen. You can change the auto-hide settings to add a delay on how long it takes before the Sidebar appears or hides itself. Not keen on loosing desktop real estate? Me neither, so I choose to auto-hide my Sidebar. Once you’re done, you can also right click on a panel to add a new panel, remove the panel you clicked on, change the panel properties, or undock the panel. Within the options menu, you can tweak the sidebar to your liking. To change the options for the Sidebar, right click on the Sidebar and select ‘Options’. If you don’t like any of the pre-loaded skins, you can go to: and download more skins. There are several skins that come pre-loaded with the Sidebar, none of them look much like Vista’s, but I am quite fond of the Royale Metallic Compact skin. Setup is pretty standard, so once you’re done you’ll have the Sidebar docked to the right hand side of your screen. Hop on over to to get your free copy of the software. If you have products from either Yahoo! or Google, you might want skip this section…unless you’re looking to change products.Īnyway, for the purpose of this guide, I’m to go with the Desktop Sidebar. news headlines from MSNBC), check your stocks, check your email, and about a dozen of other things. The folks at Microsoft finally added a feature to windows that Google, Yahoo!, and others have been doing for awhile now – they added widgets – small applications that can add RSS feeds (i.e. It’s fairly easy to use, and the end result in a Window’s desktop that is totally customized.Īnother thing you notice about Vista’s desktop is the side bar on the right side of the screen. That’s pretty much it for Windows Blinds. When you’re done, make sure to click ‘Apply my changes’ in the lower left corner. Feel free to browse through these options to tweak the skin to your liking. On the left side of WB are the several options you can change to the currently applied skin. From the preview window click on ‘Apply this skin now’. By clicking on the skin, you can see a small preview. Once you’ve added the skin, you can click on it (scroll left or right if it’s not visible). This is done by clicking on the ‘Add Skin’ link in the main window of WB. Ok, once you have the skin you want, you need to add it to Windows Blinds. Here’s the link: and here’s a screenshot of how it looks: Instead, I decided to go with the ‘Arrow’ skin. While there is a skin that looks very similar to Vista (Black Vista Basic), I didn’t like all the extra buttons added to the title bar of every single window. Hop on over to to start searching for skins. None of them were appealing to me since my goal was to get a skin that was as close to Vista as possible. Now, Windows Blinds comes with a few skins built in to it. If you end up liking windows blinds, you can buy the full version for $20. The first step is to download Windows Blinds. The program is simple to use and offers hundreds of ‘skins’ to choose from. Well, you can add the same (or similar) look to XP by using Windows Blinds. The first thing you notice about Windows Vista is how the desktop looks. If you don’t want a certain feature, then skip the project that covers it – all projects are independent of each other.īelow are screenshots taken by me of the various programs listed below: Some people might not want all the features covered in this guide, so I’m breaking them down in to “projects” for added convince. Well, this guide will walk you though the steps to give XP (or Windows 2000) the look and feel of Vista. Tired of the look and lack of features in Windows XP, but not ready to make the jump to Vista? Or perhaps you love XP, but just want to add a few features that Vista has.
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