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Chapter 3: Fine-Tuning Windows Vista’s Appearance and Performance
Choosing and Managing Your Themes
Desktop themes are combinations of the visual and audio elements Windows Vista
uses to set the appearance of menus, icons, backgrounds, screensavers, system
sounds, and mouse pointers. The default themes your computer uses are based on
the user experience level.
Saving your customized settings
As you customize the backgrounds, screensavers, system sounds, and mouse point-
ers your computer uses, you modify the default theme; you can then save these mod-
ified settings together as a new theme by following these steps:
1. Right-click an open area of