Right-click on a blank area of the taskbar, and RetroBar's context menu will pop-out. Use it to access the Windows Task Manager, or to toggle the clock or the quick launch icons. There is a much cooler option here, the theme drop-down menu. RetroBar doesn't waste time when switching between themes, the change happens instantly. To close the program, select Exit from the right-click menu.
Surprisingly, it exits and opens without restarting Explorer, which probably means that it uses an overlay over the default Taskbar. RetroBar is an open source application written in C. I think it's worth mentioning that the program does not alter the appearance of the Start Menu, you may want to look into Open Shell for an XP styled skin.
Advanced users maybe interesting in customizing the program's theme. To do so, you will need to create a folder in the program's directory, and an XAML file. Windows 10's tray icons Wi-Fi, speaker, battery, etc. However, the default icon size on the taskbar is way too small, the program needs to offer a way to resize them. Windows 10 avoids creating labels on the task bar for programs that are running, it uses icons.
RetroBar does not support this, and as a result your taskbar could get cluttered really quickly. Look at the first screenshot above and the one below from Windows 10, and you'll see what I'm talking about. RetroBar hides nearly all options of the Taskbar's context menu, which makes it a bit inconvenient to use. You can't access the Action Center or use the Show Desktop button.
The fly out menu right-click menu for taskbar icons, and task preview are not available either. And, if you're using custom toolbars like the Everything Toolbar , you can't access any of those. On the other hand, notifications work fine. I think Windows XP Blue's taskbar, start menu and tray still looks the best. What about you, which one do you like? Use WindowBlinds with a Windows 7 theme 2. Use the taskbar for more than seeing your apps and checking the time. You can personalize it in many ways—change the color, pin your favorite apps to it, and move or rearrange taskbar buttons.
You can also check your battery status and minimize all open programs momentarily so that you can take a look at your desktop. Pin an app directly to the taskbar for quick access when you're on the desktop. Or unpin it, if you want. You can do it from Start or the Jump List—which is a list of shortcuts to recently opened files, folders, and websites.
In the search box on the taskbar, type the name of the app you want to pin to the taskbar. Right-click on the app, then select Pin to taskbar. To unpin an app, follow the same steps and select Unpin from taskbar. If the app is already open, select and hold the icon in the taskbar or right-click it , then select Pin to taskbar. Customize the taskbar from the taskbar itself. If you want to change multiple aspects of the taskbar at one time, use Taskbar settings. Press and hold or right-click any empty space on the taskbar, and then select Taskbar settings.
In the Taskbar settings , scroll to see the options for customizing, choosing icons, and much more. Typically, the taskbar icons are centered, but you can also align them to the side of the taskbar.
Scroll to Taskbar alignment and select Left. Open Taskbar settings. Whenever you want to change the order of app buttons on the taskbar, just drag a button from its current position to a different one. A badge on a taskbar button is an alert to let you know that some activity is happening, or needs to happen, with that app. Press and hold or right-click any empty space on the taskbar, select Taskbar settings , select Taskbar behaviors , then choose Select the far corner of the taskbar to show the desktop.
To restore the view of all your open windows, move the mouse over, or press, the far-right edge of the desktop again. You can hide the taskbar both in desktop mode and tablet mode. Press and hold or right-click any empty space on the taskbar, select Taskbar settings , select Taskbar behaviors , and select Automatically hide the taskbar. To see the taskbar after it's hidden, hover your mouse over, or touch, the bottom edge of your screen.
Select Colors and scroll to Accent color. Turn on Show accent color on Start and taskbar. This will change the color of your taskbar to the color of your overall theme. Note: This option is only available if you select Dark or Custom as your Windows color under Choose your mode.
If you choose Custom , you'll also need to choose Dark for Choose your default Windows mode. Open Colors settings. You can personalize it in many ways—change the color and size, pin your favorite apps to it, move it around on your screen, and rearrange or resize taskbar buttons. You can also check your battery status, minimize all open programs momentarily so that you can take a look at your desktop, or lock the taskbar to keep your options.
You can do it from Start or the Jump List, which is a list of shortcuts to recently opened files, folders, and websites. If the app is already open, right-click or press the app's icon on the taskbar, then select Pin to taskbar. Or select Unpin from taskbar if you're unpinning the app. Press and hold or right-click any empty space on the taskbar, and then select Taskbar s ettings. In the Taskbar settings, scroll to see the options for customizing, sizing, choosing icons, battery information and much more.
Keep in mind that, just like in Windows XP, selecting the Properties command from the Start button will open the dialog box with the Start menu tab showing while selecting the Properties command from the Taskbar or clicking the Taskbar and Start Menu icon in the Control Panel will open the dialog box with the Taskbar tab showing.
As you can see, the Taskbar tab is straightforward and contains just six check boxes. The Notification area, which used to be on this bottom portion of the tab, now has its own tab. The first five configuration options, and their corresponding actions, are identical to those in Windows XP. The new option, titled Show Window Previews Thumbnails , allows you to disable the live Taskbar thumbnails feature, which of course is one of the new Aero features that displays thumbnail images of running applications as you hover your mouse pointer over any button on the Taskbar.
Since the thumbnails are very helpful in quickly identifying active tasks and will actually show live operations, such as a download in progress, I'm not sure what advantage disabling it will have. However, some folks may not like the additional graphics overhead and clearing the Show Window Previews Thumbnails check box will revert the Taskbar back to the way it worked in Windows XP--it simply displays the title of running applications as you hover your mouse pointer over the button on the Taskbar.
Even though hiding the Taskbar will give you more screen real estate, I was reluctant to do so in Windows XP because I always needed the Taskbar not only to switch tasks, but also to see the time; however, I've discovered that in Windows Vista I don't have to permanently keep the Taskbar on the screen because of Flip 3D.
If you enable the Auto-Hide The Taskbar option and disable the Keep the Taskbar On Top Of Other Windows option, you'll not only increase your screen real estate, but you'll begin to really appreciate the elegance of using Flip 3D as your main task switching mechanism. It will still appear and can be used when you press the [Windows] key or when you hover your mouse pointer at the bottom of the screen.
When you first open the Start menu tab, you'll notice that it no longer contains a miniature image of the Start Menu, as shown in Figure B. You'll also notice that it contains a new panel titled Privacy that provide you with two check boxes to remove the Recent menu from the Start Menu and disable the list of recently opened programs that automatically accumulate on the main section of the Start Menu. While Microsoft has greatly enhanced the way that Windows Vista's Start Menu works, you can still select the Classic Start Menu radio button, click Apply, and revert back to a Windows style Start menu.
If you then click the adjacent Customize button, you'll discover that the Customize Classic Start Menu dialog box is almost identical to the same dialog box in Windows XP. If you are using the Vista Start Menu, you may want to click the adjacent Customize button and investigate the plethora of options on the Customize Start Menu dialog box, as shown in Figure C.
Rather than two tabs, this newly designed dialog box only has one tab and a host of configuration options now appear in the scrolling outline box. You can put the main area of the Start Menu to much better use if you configure it as a launching area for all the programs you use most often.
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