CHAPTER 9

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Personalizing Your Windows Experience

Windows has always been one of the most customizable operating systems available, which is one of the things that has made it so popular over the years. Indeed, a whole industry of third-party products is well established with companies providing ever more imaginative ways for you to personalize your copy of Windows.

Windows Vista introduced the Aero Glass interface. Here was something that had a much nicer appearance than the Teletubby blue of XP or the battleship gray of Windows of old, so fewer people felt the need to customize their Windows installation.

When Aero Glass was further refined in ...

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