Ok, so Windows 7 is all the rage right now. In case you hadn’t heard, since its release a few weeks ago, the market share of Windows 7 has already surpassed that of Snow Leopard and Linux put together! One of my favourite features in Microsoft’s new OS is the ability to use a theme with various desktop backgrounds. If you haven’t seen this already, you can find it in the ‘Control Panel’ under ‘Appearance and Personalization’.
Since the testing versions of Windows, guides have been popping up all over the net on how to add other country themes to your own (country-inspired theme styles along with various wallpapers of the country concerned), which is included by default, which is all well and good, but it’s a bit of a hassle digging out the themes from the Windows folder on your hard drive, and when you do your choices are limited to 5 countries.
What’s more surprising to me is that not many sites mention the fact that all these themes along with 15 more are available from the Microsoft download site! I downloaded every theme available, although downloading all 20 separately was a bit inconvenient…
When you have your .themepack files downloaded and waiting, all you have to do is double click on whichever you want to use. This sets the theme as your current theme and saves it in your collection of themes you’ll find in control panel for future use.
If you don’t like the default themes from Microsoft, you can even create your own – more on that another time… Have you got a favourite Windows 7 theme yet?
Let us know in the comments section!
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