One of the things I like most about Windows is the ability to customize your PC down to the smallest details. With Rainmeter, you can customize your PC like never before. Here's everything you need to ...

The desktop in the Windows 8 beta offers no Start button and a few shortcuts. How can you easily populate it with your favorite programs? Lance Whitney is a freelance technology writer and trainer and ...

Set up PowerToys Workspaces on Windows 11 to automatically launch and rearrange your apps. In this guide, I'll outline the ...

Customizing your desktop is a handy way to optimize workflow while adding a personal touch to the appearance of your computer. Windows 7 enables you to customize several elements of the desktop on ...

In the first post of this series, I looked in depth at configuring and customizing the Xfce desktop. That seemed to go reasonably well -- I'm still here -- so this time I am going to look at KDE.

Apple's macOS Big Sur merges familiar iOS features with the computing benefits of Apple’s Mac lineup. Now that iOS apps can run in macOS, it makes sense for both operating systems to look, and work, ...

With Windows, you've got an almost limitless number of free, open-source and paid apps to customize the appearance of desktop. In this article, we're going to share a list of open-source and free ...

Customizing your desktop icons isn't strictly a time waster. Take, for example, your most-used folders. Custom icons allow you to quickly identify those folders so you can quickly pick them out from ...

In this post, we show you how to create Hyper-V Virtual Machine Desktop Shortcut in Windows 11/10. With Hyper-V, PC users can create, configure and enable running virtualized computer systems on top ...

We've all been there before: You're out with your laptop, engrossed in your work, when your laptop gives you the ever-dreaded battery warning. If you'd rather your laptop warn you a little sooner, you ...