How To Create Windows 10 Theme Pack

How To Make Windows Theme
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Windows 10 Theme Creator

Windows 10 Theme offer you the possibility to make a number of personalization settings; you can change the background of your desktop, as well as the colours, sounds, windows borders, start menu and you can switch between themes as often as you like. You can use the following steps, in order to customize your computer exactly as you wish.

This is one of the best windows 10 themes that have a minimalistic look but looks. Windows 10 Theme can play a sound when certain events take place on your PC. For instance, an event can be an action that you perform (eg. When you empty your Recycle Bin) or an action that Windows perform (e.g. When you receive a new mail). In fact, you can find a number of sound schemes offered with the new version of Windows. Quick and easy way to create and save Windows themes online. Open the Settings app. Go to the Personalization group of settings, and select the Themes tab. Here all your themes, custom and default, will be listed. You can only export custom themes. In Windows 10 you can still create and share themes with other Windows 10 users. However, due to the drastic change in UI and the current hybrid settings that co-exist between legacy Windows and the new modern Windows 10 UI, it’s hard to figure out how to share the themes that were once straightforward back in Windows 7.

Change the background of your desktop

Windows 10, like other versions, come with several backgrounds that you can choose from. In order to do so, you need to enter the personalization group, which can be found in the Settings. Or you can always select 'Browse' and add your own picture. For the background you can select picture, solid color or slideshows. Your wallpaper can in fact beanything you like. For example, you can choose to upload a picture from your own collection or one that is already included on this version of Window, a solid color or even a slide show, that can play pictures that you have selected randomly on all displays.

Pick up new colors

You can choose an accent color from a palette or you can select to have Windows 10 pick up a color from your wallpaper automatically. If you wish you can extend the color choice to the Start menu, taskbar and action center, below the palette. There is also another option; you can turn on transparencies for all these items. In fact, this last one can actually allow you to eke out a bit more performance in case your card of your graphics isunderpowered or older.

Add sounds

Windows 10 Theme can play a sound when certain events take place on your PC. For instance, an event can be an action that you perform (eg. when you empty your Recycle Bin) or an action that Windows perform (e.g. when you receive a new mail). In fact, you can find a number of sound schemes offered with the new version of Windows. Keep in mind, though, that some themes on your desktops have their own sound schemes. Moreover, you can save any additional sound that you changed.

Screen saver

If you want to changer or add a screen saver, you need to click 'Screen Saver, then click an iten in the list and change the settings, according to your preferences and at the end click OK. The screen saver is actually a moving pattern or a certain image that appears on your PC screen when you haven't touched your mouse or keyboard for a certain period of time. Moreover, the screen saver is turned off in the themes that offered by the Windows, but you have the option to turn it on and add one to a theme. You can actually find all kind of themes in Personalization window (found in Control Panel). Then, you can alter the background of your desktops, as well as the colour, sounds etc.

Pointer

After you have added icons and sound, you can also add a fancy cursor as well. Just like the icons and sound schemes, you need to apply the new cursor, before including the same in the theme. Once you have installed it, click Change mouse pointer at thte left side of Personalization window, choose your new cursor from the drop down list and press the apply button.

We’re just a few days away from receiving the next iteration of Windows 10. The aptly named Anniversary Update. Certain new features and some design changes are included. But in all these changes one thing is gonna remain the same. The same boring folders and file explorer. Yes, no doubt, Microsoft totally nailed it with the design language of Windows 10. The sleek and minimalistic design are eye pleasing. But, I still find File explorer and folders to be boring in looks. Well, if you feel the same and are a “Tweaker” then let me show you 3 tools that will help you customize the look the folders in Windows 10.

There are many tools available for customization in Windows 7, 8 and 8.1. No specific tools have yet been developed for customizing Windows 10. The below tools are updated versions (compatible with Windows 10) and some are not (but, they work). I’d still recommend you to take a System backup before performing any tweaks. By the way, there weren’t any damaging issues in my usage. So, it’s safe to proceed. Let’s dig in.

1. Folder Colorizer: Add Colors to Your Folders

Folder Colorizer is the tool that you must have used in Windows 7 to add colors to your folders. The tool is not updated for Windows 10 but it still works.

The usage is pretty simple. After installing go to the folder location. Right-click on the folder. Choose Colorize! and select your color.

Now, after you select the color it will do some loading and present you an error. Just hit OK and the folder color should change. Restoring the color back to original works fine. The custom colors option doesn’t work. The dialogue box does show up but crashes after few seconds of opening.

Also, there are few things to note:

The sub-folders of the customized folder will also change their colors.
The thumbnail view of the folder icon won’t show the preview of files that are stored in it.

2. Folderico: Completely Customize the Folder Icons

Folderico has full compatibility with Windows 10 and works perfectly. With this tool, you get the freedom to completely customize the look of the folder icon. You can add custom color, images, and overlays.

Open the tool and browse to the folder which you’d like to customize. Now, you can replace the icon with an image or else add a color and overlay to it.

You can use any PNG or JPEG image as an overlay. Here I’ve used the Counter-Strike logo. You can also add color to the background. If you think you want to use the icon again with other folders then you can even save it by clicking on Save to User Icons. Also, there are some preinstalled icons that you can use.

3. Windows 10 Skins

One of the way to completely change the look and feel of the file explorer and the folders is to install skin packs. There are many cool themes and skins available for Windows 10. Skins for your favorite games, metro themes, and Android themed skins.

I recommend you to download skins from skinpacks.com. I’ve been using their skins since Windows 7. There’s also a Skin Pack Creator and IconPack Creator to create your own custom skins. One thing to note here is that the whole Windows UI will change not only the file explorer. If you don’t want to change the whole UI then you can use the SkinPack creator to create your own customized skins for file explorer and folders.

Few Other Add-ons

In the past, we had shared a tool that gives Chrome-style tabs in the file explorer. Also, if you know the file explorer doesn’t show folder size in details view. So, in order to quickly view the size of the folder, you can use this tiny tool called Folder size.

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