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 ...

To create a new virtual desktop, click on the two overlapping grey boxes on the Taskbar and click on New desktop. Or use 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.

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 ...

From fun phone cases to stickers to computer wallpaper to custom app icons, there are so many ways to personalize our devices these days. But one thing you can make your own that you might not know ...

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 ...

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 ...