making win 7 not ugly

**moving-target** · 03-23-11, 11:51 PM

ok so i reinstaled but now i cant remember how i got win7 not to look so ugly task bars to big and the icons in it its an ugly greying color the pop up box with my running programs seems a bit diff also

**bust331** · 03-24-11, 02:20 AM

Video drivers brah

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**Phyrelight** · 03-24-11, 10:37 AM

yea video drivers, aero interface won't run on stock install drivers. If you had the PC connected to the net when you installed windows 7 it should have installed basic video drivers for you but getting the ones directly from the manufacturer are always better.

**moving-target** · 03-24-11, 01:12 PM

yeah already updated all my stuff but my task bar looks larger then before and i cant find the setting that will make it smaller maybew its just from staring into a laptop running xp for all those hours but it just seems larger then before

**Keiron** · 03-24-11, 01:16 PM

Do you have your taskbar icons set to small? That helps reduce it's size some and what I use on all my W7 machines. Although the Windows icon itself doesn't get any smaller, it doesn't bother me as much.

**moving-target** · 03-24-11, 01:17 PM

yeah i dont know where to find the setting to make them small so not sure most things are set to defualt right now

**Keiron** · 03-24-11, 01:20 PM

Right click on the taskbar -> Properties -> click the checkbox that says "Use small icons" near the top under "Appearance".

**moving-target** · 03-24-11, 01:27 PM

ah that did it many thanks now all i need is a cool wall paper

**Phyrelight** · 03-24-11, 02:25 PM

there are many free themes for windows 7, some of them are actually nice.

**moving-target** · 03-24-11, 02:27 PM

nah task bart resized is enough i'm just searching the internet for a wall paper i had years ago of a jedi running a storm trooper thru from behinde was quite the bad ass pic but seems lost to the internets