Since I have to stare at my desktop for several hours of the day, I like to make sure everything is nice, neat and organized.  Taskix is the free and lightweight program I use to sort my Windows taskbar tabs, so that they are exactly in the order I want them in.
Once installed, all you [...]

Since switching to Windows Vista, there haven’t been too many other visual styles I have fallen in love with – especially in comparison with the number of them that are out there for Windows XP.  I have found one port though that is well worth your time if you want a simpler (yet, not ugly) [...]

I’ve been out searching for a program that will allow me to quickly color code the folders on my Vista machine.  The only problem is, I can find a lot of good programs that work with Windows XP but this must be a harder task to accomplish on Vista.
Here are a few of the [...]

Browsing around Deviant Art I found some of the best looking Super Mario icons I have seen in a long long time.  With all the Super Smash Bros Brawl I’ve been playing in the past few weeks – looks like Nintendo is invading my desktop too.

Another awesome detail about these icons are they were [...]

For those of you watching my recent twittering, you probably noticed that I ordered myself a new PC. The one thing that made me really reluctant about moving from my old 3 or 4 year old previous Windows XP machine was Windows Vista. I have heard so many horror stories on the Web [...]

Working support, I have to look at a multitude of programs and windows on my desktop every single day. Now sure, I would like to pin certain things on top and let other things fall to the bottom of the window stack. The question is – is there an easy way to get [...]

I always love finding new Windows XP visual styles that are not only good – but great. Some of them are ugly, others are Mac-clones. Very rarely do you get one as cool as MurrinaFancyClearlooks.

Need help figuring out how to change your XP visual style? Don’t worry this past post should have [...]

At least once a year I get so frustrated with Windows I look over at Linux and see what is happening on that side of the fence. Now before I might do the whole Live CD thing – my main problem with that though is that my CD drive in this PC sounds like [...]

No, that’s not an offer to dance but one of the best desktop OS (operating systems) out there today that runs on Linux instead of Windows. Interested?
Good because this article is about the process of installing Ubuntu Linux right along-side Windows XP Pro, my expectations and what actually happened. Egads, you say! Are you nuts? [...]

It has been a while since a visual style for Windows XP has tickled my “I like to dress up Windows” fancy. The TangoXP visual style though is pretty simple, pretty slick and hey, yeah it is just pretty too.

Need help on using different visual styles on Windows XP?
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