Winaero

Restore old Preferences dialog in Firefox 38

With version 38, Mozilla is going enable a new Preferences feature by default. These new Preferences will be shown inside a tab, like a regular web page. Users who are not happy with the new appearance of Preferences in Firefox 38 can follow this tutorial to disable it and restore the old Preferences dialog.

Change the color of the Speed Dial tab in Vivaldi

We continue our coverage of Vivaldi browser customization. In this article, we will see how to change the background color of the Speed Dial page in the Vivaldi browser. By default, it is bright red which is neither easy on the eyes nor beautiful.

Nature HD#48 theme for Windows 8

Hide Removable Drives From Navigation Pane in Windows 10

With Windows 10, Microsoft added removable drives directly to the left pane of File Explorer called the "Navigation pane". This change is intended to speed up access to your flash drives and external drives as you don't need to expand the 'This PC' folder any more. However, some users might prefer the older behavior where all drives are grouped under 'Computer'/'This PC'. In that case, you would want to hide removable drives in the File Explorer's Navigation Pane in Windows 10. While Windows 10 does not offer any settings to hide removable drives, here is a simple Registry tweak which will allow you to do it.

How to change font in the Windows 7 Start menu

By default, Windows 7 uses the Segoe UI font everywhere in its user interface including the Start menu. If you wish to change the font, font size or style of the font used in the Windows 7 Start menu, follow this simple tutorial. No third party tools are required.

Download Windows 10 Lockscreen images

Windows 10 features a new option which allows you to have a random image on the Lock screen every time you see it. Windows 10 downloads images for the lock screen from the Internet. This behavior is controlled by the appropriate option in the Settings app. Users who are interested in downloading these images can get it from the link in this article.

Download Windows 10 default lockscreen images

Windows 10 default lockscreen images.

Grab default Windows 10 Lockscreen images aka "Windows Spotlight".
This pack includes 41 images available in Windows 10 TP at this moment.

Windows 10 features an updated Alt+Tab dialog

Have you noticed that in Windows 10 the Alt + Tab dialog is updated and has become far more visually richer? Now it respects the actual window proportions for showing thumbnails when you switch between windows. The opened windows are scaled depending on how many windows you have open. It is an improvement in my opinion over the Alt + Tab dialog of Windows 8 or Windows 7.

Winaero Tweaker 0.2.3.2 released

This is very minor release. I found out that the "Reset defaults" button does not work in the "Override Taskbar Color" option of Winaero Tweaker. Somehow the code which does the job is missing from the previous released version, so I added it.

Windows 10: death of the Aero engine

As you might have noticed if you downloaded the latest Windows 10 Build 10056, for some reason, window titles are always grey in this build. Additionally, by default, the operating system does not use any color for the taskbar and the Start menu. Under the hood of these changes, you will find a new colorization engine which is different from the one shipped with Windows 7/8/Vista.