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πŸ™ Ricing Windows ​

/ry-sing/

making windows yours. tweaking & customising to fit your needs ​

WARNING

Don't forget to do your system restore points and backups often along with the registry, espescially with this section!

TIP

I will be suggesting the stuff I did and like but at the end of this section I wil be posting resources to the best ricing guides and repos/indexes I found so go through them for a full understanding of what and how you can actully customise your windows. I highly recommend it.

READ ME IF YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT YOU ARE DOING ​

πŸ’œ Recommendations ​

First we will start of with the software you should have ​

  • Icaros - Icaros Shell Extensions: Icaros is a collection of lightweight, high quality, Windows Shell Extensions. Provide Windows Explorer thumbnails and properties for almost any file type!
  • 7+ Taskbar Tweaker - Customize the Windows taskbar with dozens of exclusive options. Adapt the taskbar to your workflow, not the other way around.
  • TranslucentTB - A lightweight utility that makes the Windows taskbar translucent/transparent.
  • ExplorerPatcher - This project aims to enhance the working environment on Windows
  • QTTabBar - Adds a lot more functionality to Explorer, including tabs, hotkeys and alternative navigation panes. THIS ONE IS BETTER THAN THE NEXT
  • K-Lite Codec Pack - Download the K-Lite Codec Pack so that QTTabBar can hover preview more file types!
  • QtTabBar - QTTabBar is a small tool that allows you to use tab multi label function in Windows Explorer. Githhub
  • OldNewExplorer - OldNewExplorer is the Windows 10 (and Windows 8.1, and 8) shell extension / tweaker which can undo "improvements" to file browsing made in newer Windows version. Everything is optional for your liking.
  • StartIsBack - Real start menu for Windows 8 and Windows 10. Start menu is back and it's better than ever. Get the most useful shell enhancement for Windows 10 now!
  • WinverUWP - A UWP version of winver
  • VolumeΒ² - advanced Windows volume control
  • Mouse Wheel Accelerator - Mouse Wheel Accelerator improves the wheel scroll in windows towards dynamic smooth iPhone-like scrolling.
  • Microsoft PowerToys - Windows system utilities to maximize productivity
  • AutoHotkey - The ultimate automation scripting language for Windows.

Some of my AHK: Custom-AutoHotkeys - Custom AutoHotkeys for efficiency / productivity.

Some more AHK: Xatmo980 Tools - A Small Collection of my Autohotkey Programs

  • ClipClip - clipboard management software for Windows
  • flux - makes the color of your computer's display adapt to the time of day
  • TeraCopy - Copy your files faster and more securely
  • Jocys-com Clock - Clock for WINDOWS
  • Mactype - Better font rendering, includes version for W7 and W10 (also works on 8.1).
  • 7-Zip - file archiver with a high compression ratio
  • JDownloader 2 - open-source download management tool

πŸͺŸWindows Translucency ​

A few things to make various parts of your Windows OS Translucent ​

  • TranslucentTB - A lightweight utility that makes the Windows taskbar translucent/transparent.
  • TranslucentSM - A lightweight utility that makes the Windows Start Menu translucent/transparent
  • DWMBlurGlass - Add custom effect to global system title bar, support win10 and win11.
  • ExplorerBlurMica - Add background Blur effect or Acrylic (Mica for win11) effect to explorer for win10 and win11.
  • TranslucentFlyouts - Translucent effect for most of the win32 flyouts.
  • Translucent Flyouts Config GUI - A configuration GUI for Translucent Flyouts

Cursor: ​

ElCapitan cursors is smaller but the macOS Sierra Retina cursors is much cleaner!

Font: ​

Wallpapers: ​

Go check out my Wallpaper Image Collections Github repo for some nice wallpapers

Theming: ​

Suggested Theme Patcher: ​

SecureUxTheme - A secure boot compatible in-memory UxTheme patcher - SecureUxTheme is a piece of software that removes signature verification of styles in Windows.

Other Theme Patchers: ​

  • UltraUXThemePatcher - UltraUXThemePatcher modifies your system files so that 3. party themes can be used.
  • UXTheme Patcher - UXTheme Patcher is a software that patch Windows 10 or Windows 11 theme signature requirements to enable Windows 10 or Windows 11 theme customization.

niivu: ​

dabble in graphic design. Mainly GUI for Windows. Themes, skins, wallpapers & icons

DeviantArt: ​

Misc: ​

🌐 Ricing Guides & Indexes ​

ri β€’ cing - A nice, short and sweet ricing guide. The one that started this journey of discovering ricing for me!

nanami-tan - In-depth Ricing resource and index of helpful links. Github Repo

The Windows Theming Wiki - Guides you need to start your windows ricing journey.

Windows Ricing - Ricing (customizing) Windows.

WINDOWS 10 RICING - Windows 10 Ricing Guide - Tools, tutorials, and resources to get the best possible experience on an Microsoft Windows based system.

list o' resources - Ricing resources for Linux, Mac and Windows.

FMHY Themes / Ricing - FMHY Themes / Ricing

winthemers - winthemers is a community dedicated to customizing windows. Github Repo

r/ricing - This reddit is intended to be a central resource to help users get started with desktop customization

The Ricing Guide - Linux - The Ricing Guide - Linux

Windux - Just a bunch of random ideas I took from reddit or other OS and tried to get them on windows through rainmeter.

βš™οΈ General Software ​

πŸ–₯️ I hope you enjoyed this guide/list and found some stuff usefull. ​