How to make your own Windows 7 Themes

You can make your own themes in windows 7 itself, theres no need of any third party software to do this task.

1.> The first step in making a theme is to create a folder and dump all the favorite wallpapers into it. See image below for example.

2.> Now on the desktop, Right click on mouse to choose "personalise" option.

3.> Now see below to choose "desktop back-grounds" button, here you have to specify the folder in which you have dumped all the wallpapers, you can also set time and alignment of the picture in the same window, and clik "save changes".

4.> Now its about choosing the task bar and the windows color. after making changes you can click over the "windows color" button next to "desktop backgrounds". Again save changes after choosing a theme color of your choice.

5.> Now its up-to you whether you wish to also change the windows sounds at every event of closing or error events.

6.> Now there are two options to save a theme, a.) save only to your computer b.) save the theme for sharing.

7.> I prefer option b. because you can share your own made theme with your friends as a file.

8.> For saving a theme made by you, you should now "Right" click on the "unsaved theme" button in "personalize" options.

How to enable compiz desktop in Ubuntu 9.10

Compiz is a compositing window manager that uses 3D graphics acceleration via OpenGL. It provides various new graphical effects and features on any desktop environment, including Gnome and KDE. Compiz Fusion is a collection of plug-ins and a configuration system for the Compiz compositing window manager. It was created from the re- emerging of Beryl into Compiz.

Compiz truely and honestly redefines user desktop experience and desktop/window management

1.> Pre-Requisites

In order to make life easy, let us go through a few pre-flight checks to ensure all is well once we enable Compiz/Desktop Effects and start using it.

Proper drivers installed for your Intel, ATI or nVidia or Intel Graphics card.

If you are using ATI,Nvidia Display cards you can install drivers from System--->Administration--->Hardware Drivers to detect the graphic card and to install associated drivers.

Install CCSM on Ubuntu

2.> After installing graphics card drivers you need to install compiz fusion using the following comamnd in the terminal:

sudo apt-get install compizconfig-settings-manager compiz-fusion-plugins-extra compiz-fusion-plugins-main compiz-plugins emerald

3.> Now you need to enable Visual effects for this go to System--->Preferences--->Appearance

4.> Now you will get this window on your screen, here you have to choose "Extra" and close the window.

5.> Now you have to open a terminal from Applications >> System tools >> Terminal, and type "ccsm"

(without quotes), and hit enter.

You will get this large window in front of you:

6.> This window contains several desktop enhancements such as fire on screen, rain drops , wiper effects, Desktop cube, desktop cylinder, MAC osX styled window changer and lots more.

here's one of the enhancements called Desktop cube.