Design means you can change the surface appearance of Windows 7, and so for visual variety in everyday Windows. What to know but few Windows 7 users: Windows 7 will be delivered with far more designs than you default, the dialog "Change of visual effects and sounds on your computer" to "Aero Design" and "Basic Design" offers . To access this dialog, click the right mouse button on an empty area on the desktop and choose from the context menu "Customize" from.


By default, Windows 7 offers you only the designs that Microsoft for a region - has provided - in our case, "Germany". Depending on the installed Windows 7 version can be found but in a hidden subfolder various other designs.


The folder is not displayed by default in Windows Explorer. To change this, you first call from the Windows Explorer and then select the "Organize", select "Folder and Search Options." In the fresh another window Folder choice, switch to the tab View and not see Advanced Settings, take Hide protected operating system files (recommended).

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In Windows Explorer, you call everybody in the Windows directory to the directory "Globalization" from. Here looks the previously hidden sub directory "MCT". In this directory are several subfolders in turn for the Windows 7 regional themes. For example, "MCT-AU" for Australia or "MCT-US" for U.S..


In each MCT folders are again the respective designs (folder "Theme") and used by these wallpaper designs. The wallpapers each put in a folder that corresponds to the region for which a theme is meant. So for example, "United Kingdom" (in MCT-GB) or "United States" (in MCT-US).


You cannot copy and use the wallpapers in a folder of your choice and from there to organize their desktops. Alternatively, go to the folder of "Theme" and then double click on the file only contained design with the ending result, the "theme".. The design in question is immediately activated, and also appears as a new entry in the field included "My Themes" in the "Change of visual effects and sounds on the computer" settings.