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Tweaking the look and feel of the operating system's desktop. All OSes welcome.

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I’m seeing a strange issue where users end up with two Recycle Bin icons on their desktop. We modify the registry in “Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User ...
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I am working with two users: The normal user and an administrator one, and I have the impression I might need to switch regularly between both. As a result, I wonder how I can know as which user I'm ...
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I've setup a GPO which applies a first-time-logon Windows Theme on user devices. The theme is correctly applied on login, but the desktop background defaults to "Windows Spotlight". It seems ...
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A.K.A. RDP setting "Modem (56 Kbps)" with "Desktop background" unchecked disables wallpaper I’m experiencing an issue on a Windows 10 PC where the wallpaper for the standard user ...
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I have a specific sequence of multiple desktops and single app (Windows 11) in full screen in those windows (Mac-like, Example, 4 windows: spotify -> chrome -> VSCode -> terminal). It's quite ...
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I'd like my wallpapers not to extend below the waybar (taskbar). I've already studied and tried the configurations of waybar, wpaperd and niri extensively without success. My question is, which ...
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Reproduction: Settings > Personalize > Background - set to "Slideshow" Switch to a different Virtual Desktop (win + tab or ctrl + win + left/right) Background setting will have ...
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I already have some hand-crafted desktop-entries under my ~/.local/share/applications and wanted to add another item (naming the new file userapp-VNC.desktop): [Desktop Entry] Comment=VNC Connection ...
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I do picture rotations on my desktop, and pretty much 100% of them need me to go back into the Desktop settings and switch from "Zoom" to "Spanned". (Zoom appears to be the ...
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As the title suggests, I'm hoping to increase the size of the taskbar thumbbnails when hovering over the open apps: I've found various suggestions, but none seem to work. For instance, this one only ...
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I wonder what happens if Windows 10 21H2 Pro or Windows 11 24H2 Pro gets deactivated. I read that I will lose some customization abilities, but I wonder: Which customization abilities will I lose? ...
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So you're trying to change your driver icon on Windows 11 but realized that the "Customize" section of the driver's properties is missing the "Change Icon..." button. Also, you'd ...
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I tried Chrome background color suddenly changed to black but somehow, in light mode, the background for chrome://apps is always black. How can I change that?
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I just installed the Kali Linux on a Lenovo T61 laptop with broken screen - I use external VGA/D-SUB monitor in order to work. Installed on a 128 GB USB drive, made with Rufus (Rufu 3.4.1430) ... ...
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I spent the whole day trying to find this. On Windows 10 when you move cursor over folders or icons it get blue selection box around. It can be pretty annoying when you have to list a lot of icons or ...
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