How To Make Your Own Theme in Windows 7

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Windows 7 ThemesHave you visited the Windows 7 Personalization Gallery to download new themes for your system? What do you think about those themes? Great? Awesome? So, Didn’t you thought of making your own great theme? If you haven’t, think about it now, because today we are going to learn how to make your own customized Windows 7 theme!

Now we will be customizing the Wallpaper, Windows Color Scheme, Sounds and the Screen-saver to make our theme :

  • To start the work, right click on your desktop and select “Personalize”
  • Select “Desktop Background”

Desktop Background

Desktop Background

  • After that, select the wallpapers you want to be included in your theme. And also adjust the other settings : “Picture Position”, “Change Picture Every” (The time frame to change the wallpapers), “Shuffle”. After your done click on “Save Changes”

Desktop Background Settings

Desktop Background Settings

  • Next select “Windows Color”

Window Color

Window Color

  • Now change the settings as follows :

1) Color : The color you want

2) Enable Transparency : (If you want to make the window boarders and the task bar transparent or not)

3) Color intensity : Simply, the amount of transparency.

4) Show color mixer : Use this to create your own color, if you can’t find it within the given colors.

  • After your done select “Save Changes”

Window Color Settings

Window Color Settings

  • Now select “Sounds”

Sounds

Sounds

  • Select a good “Sound scheme” and click “Apply”

Sound Scheme

Sound Scheme

  • Next select “Screen Saver”, select the screen saver you want and click on “Apply”

Screen Saver

Screen Saver

  • Now your finished customizing your theme. Now we have to save it so you can share it!
  • Scroll to the top of your theme list and you’ll see your customized theme. Select it and click on “Save theme”. After that, give your new theme a name and click on “Save”

Save Theme

Save Theme

  • Finally you have to save it for sharing. To do that right click on your theme and select “Save theme for sharing”. Next select where you want to save your theme and click on “Save”

Save Theme for Sharing

Save Theme for Sharing

Congrats! Now you have created your own windows 7 theme! What do you think about it now? Feel free to share your ideas with us…. Cheers!

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Author: Pubudu Kodikara (142 Articles)

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6 Responses to How To Make Your Own Theme in Windows 7
  1. Arafat Hossain Piyada
    January 12, 2010 | 7:00 pm

    You just make it to easy. Very effective tutorial indeed. Just give it my tweet love. Keep up good work friend.
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  2. Saksham Talwar
    January 13, 2010 | 10:08 pm

    Nice tutorial dude! It will really help me create some good Windows Se7en themes….

  3. TechChunks
    January 17, 2010 | 8:45 pm

    Great tutorial Pubudu. Hats off :D
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