Customize Help

Welcome to Customize Help! Here you’ll find all the info you need to customize your computer. Please note that you can find additional category-specific help pages from a particular category’s browse page (e.g. Icons).

Quick Guide to Customizing

Change the standard Windows theme for a shiny new one! Check out our XP Themes section (see How to Use XP Themes)
Find a new desktop background from our huge selection of Wallpapers (see How to Use Wallpapers)
Get some new Icons for your programs and documents (see How to Use Icons)

Need More Control?

Try using a Shell Replacement. It replaces your default shell (Explorer) and gives you more options, features, and customization over it.

Linux Customization

See How To Customize Linux and check out our sections for GNOME themes, GNOME splash screens, GDM Logins, Fluxbox themes and GAIM Smilies.

Have a More Specific Question?

USE the Power of Google

If you have a question, and the ReadMe file didn’t help you, and you tried to figure it out but failed. Need not worry, and need not jump straight to the forum to ask a extremely simple question that eluded you in the frantic panic for an answer. You simply must learn the power of Google, we all know it and love it, it empowers you to find out answers for yourself, really it does. And ya know what, it doesn’t annoy people because you didn’t try to figure it out yourself, and just decided to post about it. We all were inexperienced once, but through our searching, and learning we grew and became better, and better. And if you too want to become better at customizing or any thing for that matter — do the research.

Some links that might help you are: Google Guide and
Google Guide’s Cheat Sheet and in case you can’t find it
Selecting Search Terms

Still can’t find an answer?

Feel free to post general questions in the custo group, or browse the groups to find an appropriate place to post.

Help Us

All of our help pages are wiki-powered, see Using Help for details of how to contribute!