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Sometimes it’s the tiniest things that can bug you about a user interface like the color of your taskbar changing as your wallpaper cycles. This simple but clever hack will keep your Aero transparency on but your taskbar colors consistent

Windows 7 only: 7LogonChanger browses and sets selected Flickr and Picasa photos as your wallpaper or Windows 7 login screen easily. More

Windows 7: If you’ve been overwhelmed by the options and cluttered interfaces of Windows 7-customization applications, check out GIGATweaker. GIGATweaker sports a clean and easy to use GUI that neatly compartmentalizes the tweaks in logical sub-sections for easy customization.

Last week we asked you to share your favorite tool for tweaking Windows 7 , then we rounded the top five for a vote . Now we’re back to highlight the winner and the runners up.

Windows 7 has been well received both critically and on the street. And while Lifehacker readers love Windows 7 , a well-built OS isn’t a perfect OS

Windows 7 only: System tweaking utility Alt+Tab Tuner customizes everything about the Windows 7 Alt-Tab dialog, from setting the transparency to increasing the size of the thumbnails. More

Windows 7 has more visual appeal and tricks up its sleeve than any prior incarnation of Windows, and people love it; they also love to tweak, customize, and trick out their operating systems. So which tools are best for the job

Windows 7: Hailing from the camp of “software that does exactly what its name implies”, Windows 7 Taskbar Thumbnail Customizer fine-tunes the size, spacing, and margins of your Windows 7 Superbar previews. If you’re unhappy with the size and spacing of application and folder thumbnails on your Superbar (less enthusiastically dubbed the taskbar in some circles), Windows 7 Taskbar Thumbnail Customizer adjusts them.

Windows 7: Hailing from the camp of “software that does exactly what its name implies”, Windows 7 Taskbar Thumbnail Customizer fine-tunes the size, spacing, and margins of your Windows 7 Superbar previews. If you’re unhappy with the size and spacing of application and folder thumbnails on your Superbar (less enthusiastically dubbed the taskbar in some circles), Windows 7 Taskbar Thumbnail Customizer adjusts them. Vertical size, spacing between the icons, and margins on the top and bottom of the icons are among the parameters awaiting your obsessive attention

Windows: Unlike previous versions of Windows, Windows 7 has no option for remembering the position of individual windows. If you miss having Windows remember how you arrange things, ShellFolderFx can help. It’s a small thing, certainly, but if you’d grown used to Windows keeping track of the size and position of your windows—especially important for multi-monitor users!—then the removal of that feature in Windows 7 was more than a minor annoyance.