Make Your Vista Look Better

Windows Vista, as pretty as it looks, can still use some prettying up. Here’s a list of utilities (all developed by one person: Andreas Verhoeven) which contribute to improving the look and feel of your beautiful Windows Vista.

Glass Toasts - that allows your system tray notifications to have the Aero Glass look. that surely beats the relatively ugly looking tips that we see today. that one works on Windows XP as well. So, whether you are still running XP, you can still give that a spin.

 

 

3D User Picture - that one is a favorite. It replaces the user picture in the Start Menu with a much better alternative: an animated 3-D picture.

This surely beats the comparatively dull looking picture that you get on the Start

Menu.

This however comes at a small cost (nopes, you don’t need to pay for any licensing). The cost is that you need to have a DirectX capable Graphics card for that to work.

Thumbnail Resizer - that one is really good for those of you who have high resolution monitors and so those thumbnails  that are show when you hover above the taskbar buttons become really small. that allows you to resize the thumbnails to suit your vision. The source cipher is available for that whether you want to see how it is working under the hood.

To get a hold of all these cool tools, visit Ave’s Vista Stuff. He has another tool up there for you to checkout.

Orginal post by Vaibhav