Swap Microsoft Edge with Internet Explorer You can add the Start and taskbar if you prefer as well. Check the Title Bars option towards the bottom of the panel. Step 4: Next, we’ll switch the colors of the title bar. Step 3: As shown above, we selected Navy Blue. Step 2: Choose Colors on the left of the Settings app.

Step 1: Right-click on the desktop and select Personalize. Step 2: Right-click on the taskbar and select the Show Task View Button to disable this feature. Step 1: Right-click on the taskbar, select Cortana, and then Hidden to remove Microsoft’s assistant. Make sure the Background drop-down menu reads Picture and then select the Browse button to find your downloaded wallpaper. Step 3: The Settings app now appears, defaulting to the Background panel.

Step 2: Right-click on the desktop and select Personalize. Step 1: To install a Windows 7 wallpaper, download the images from here. It will give you that sweet transparency without changing anything else. If you don’t care much about the other style options, but you do really miss the option to make the taskbar transparent while you work, then we suggest downloading TranslucentTB instead. Step 4: On the Skin tab, choose Windows Aero. You may need to tweak the button size - we used 60 given the default setting was too large for our desktop resolution. Once downloaded, choose Custom near the bottom of the Start Menu Style tab and select the downloaded image. Step 3: Next, head here to download the Windows 7 Start Menu orb (these are image files, so you can pick them up from many different places if you prefer). Step 2: On the Start Menu Style tab, choose the Windows 7 Style as shown above. Here you will want to choose the Classic Start Menu Settings. Once installed, you’ll see six entries on your Start Menu listed under Classic Shell. Unfortunately, support for Classic Shell ended in 2017, but the code was picked up and continued with Open Shell, which you can download here. With this free tool, you can modify the Windows 10 Start Menu to resemble the version provided in Windows 7. Step 1: A download called Classic Shell once allowed you to change key menu aspects to look more like Windows 7. With a few tweaks to elements like wallpaper, color scheme, and default browser, you’ll be back to a Windows 7 look and feel in no time. The good news is that Windows 10 is highly customizable, so you can engineer its design to look nearly the same as Windows 7. If you’re struggling to feel comfortable with Windows 10, you’re certainly not alone. While Windows 10 has an appealing look and feel to some, many of us feel overwhelmed by the massive jump in style from Windows 7.

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