Earlier we told you how to add Windows 8 user tile to Windows 7 taskbar? Discoveries about the new features coming in to Windows 8 continues. Well, still there is nothing earth shattering so far but now Rafael Rivera and Paul Thurrott reveals an other visually subtle but pleasing feature related to the Windows, taskbar and other GUI elements color. As we know Windows 7 already supports the new Personalization features but set of customization seems to be a bit limited. Microsoft has improved the ...

Some windows users prefer to customize the placements of desktop icons on their Windows systems particularly if they have a lot of icons such as many applications, documents and folders placed on the desktop. It takes a lot of time for the custom placements of the icons on the preferred places and users would like that placement to be maintained. However, some windows application particularly some full screen applications can play mess with the placement of icons. Another scenario is when screen ...

Long time readers of InspiredGeek will remember that back in 2008 I reviewed a selected list of some useful Auto Hot Key based tiny utilities that were available on the DonationCoder. Since then I found some of them to be more useful than the others. Based on my user experience I decided to revisit that article and give you an even more filtered list of those utilities that maintained their usefulness (for me) till this day. Originally I planned to list only best out here from the original list of ...

Over the time I have used many system tweaking or system enhancing utilities(as they call them) to fine-tune the different aspects of my windows system starting from the Microsoft’s own TweakUI to the FreshUI and then XDN Tweaker and a lot others but in the last few months I came across a system tweaking utility that has forced me to stop my continuous shuffling from one to another by providing the most complete set of tweaking options that I have seen so far. In fact you will be hard-pressed ...

    I am not really a great fan of desktop background switching/rotating applications, but recently I found something that really caught my attention despite my dislike of these kind of applications. John’s Background Switcher is a great free desktop background switching utility. There are plenty of features that sets it apart from other applications of this kind. It can not-only use images stored on you computer to rotate on your Windows desktop but also has extensive support ...