How to Change Windows Vista Themes & Skins

Video Transcript

"Hi, my name is Dave Andrews and today I'm going to show you how to change Windows Vista themes. Themes are what control the overall look of Windows Vista, such as your start menu down here at the very bottom. If you pull up a window, the color of this window and how it looks in general. To change your theme, close out your windows, right click on your desktop and go to personalize. In this list, you'll see a lot of different things you can do to personalize how Windows Vista looks. What we're concern with is theme. In this list here, under theme, there are many different looks that you can use. You can use your current one; which is the one I'm running right now, you can go back to Windows Vista; which is the default look or you can change it to Windows Classic; which makes it look more like Windows '98 use to look and you know, Windows XP when you change it to the classic settings, knows such how much more blacky and gray. Let's go back to the Windows Vista look. In the Windows Vista look has sort of this see-thru screen up here and little more round corners. In addition to changing the theme, you can change the window color and appearance. Let's say we want black windows or red windows. To get to default, just click back here on default. Enabling transparency will allow you to see through the top of this window to the windows beneath. If I disable that, it becomes solid and you can't see anything behind it. If I like orange and I really want to see a lot of orange on my windows, I can just pull this slotter up and down and make it more orange and less orange, depending on the slotter. I'm going to go back to the default. To change your background, just select desktop background and you can choose one of these built-in wallpapers and select okay. As you can see, it's very easy to change your Windows Vista theme. My name is Dave Andrews and I've just shown you how to change your Vista theme."