You can change many of the theme options in the Windows Classic theme, including the desktop background color. Type “theme” in the start menu search, and select the “Change the color scheme” link. You can ‘downgrade’ to the classic Windows look from Windows /ME, to save processing power on low-spec machines (or battery power on notebooks) or set a high-contrast theme for visual-impaired accessibility. If you download and try to apply themes, you will get a dialog saying “This edition of windows doesn’t support themes.” You can’t apply any customised theme in Windows 7 Starter and Home editions. Some options you would expect to be able to change, you can’t, like background pictures and colours – but more later. This is the only Aero type theme provided by the install. Windows 7 Starter defaults to the Aero Classic theme, similar to the default Aero Glass theme on other editions of Windows 7, but without transparency effects. This opens the familiar screensaver options dialog where you can choose the screensaver and settings you want. Type “screensaver” in your start menu search, and choose “Change screen saver.” Windows 7 Starter does still include all the default Windows 7 screensavers. or choose one of the other sound schemes Windows 7 Starter includes all of the new sound schemes by default. Using the Start Menu search, you can rediscover many of the personalisation settings.Įnter “change sounds” in your start menu search, then select “Change system sounds.”Ĭhange or remove any of the current sounds scheme.
However, right-click on the desktop and you will get a more traditional option to change your display resolution and add Desktop Gadgets. This Personalization panel not available Windows 7 Starter. Change themes, background, sounds, screen-saver, mouse pointers, desktop icons amongst a long list. In all other editions of Windows 7, you can easily personalise your desktop environment by right-clicking on the desktop and selecting Personalize. It’s that part of Microsoft’s corporate, money-minded, mean-spiritedness coming to the fore, in the hope that the less knowledgeable computer users will simply stump up for an upgrade to a more expensive version. You can still customise a lot, although some of it is hidden, away from menus and control panels. However, many of the personalisation options are also stripped from Windows 7 Starter. Features are stripped to make this most basic edition also the cheapest. Owing to Microsoft’s marketing strategy, Windows 7 Starter Edition is far from complete.
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