When it comes to Vista beautification, you must first think of the strongest Vista beautification master at home and abroad (built in Vista optimization master). Although Windows Vista (Vista for short) has a gorgeous appearance and rich functions, there are still many users who envy the ease of operation of the MAC OS system. Even if you can't install the Mac OS system, you want to experience its excitement, but how can it be achieved in Vista? In fact, you only need to install several softwares yourself to make it easy to display multiple windows side by side, one desktop to multiple, and the Dock toolbar.
Using three small softwares, Vista has some features of Mac OS.
First, let multiple windows side by side display
Added a window switching function in Windows Vista, through which we can quickly open multiple windows in the form of thumbnails arranged in the window, click with the mouse A program can be opened directly. There are more windows, overlapping, and not easy to find. In Mac OS, this aspect is better than Vista. Mac OS has a built-in Expose function, so by pressing F3, all the programs we run are displayed in front of you in thumbnails for you to choose. It is not difficult to implement this function in Vista. It is easy to install the TopDesk gadget in the Vista system.
After the TopDesk installation, a blue icon with the word "T" appears in the taskbar. By default, it will automatically run with the system startup. TopDesk provides powerful program switching to quickly and easily switch application windows. With the hotkeys, you can quickly view thumbnails of all open windows and switch quickly.
1. Hotkey Settings
Before using TopDesk software, you need to set the hotkey of the program first. Right-click the icon in the taskbar and select "Options" from the pop-up menu to open the "TopDesk Options" dialog box (Figure 1). In the "User Actions" interface, you can arrange various arrangements of the window and mouse hotspots. The operation performs hot key setting. In the arrangement mode, several window display modes such as parallel window, parallel program window, parallel course window and hidden visible window are provided in the TopDesk program, and are set according to their own preferences.
Figure 1 Hotkey Settings
After setting, switch to the "Window" interface, in which we can set the animation effect of the window switching and the parallel mode of the window.
2. Quickly switch windows
After setting the hotkeys, when there are too many open windows, you can press the set "Parallel all windows" hotkey. At this time, all the windows opened are thumbnails. The form is displayed on the desktop (Figure 2). With this feature, it is much more convenient than Vista's "switch between windows". During the thumbnail display, you can also use the mouse or TAB button to quickly switch. If you only show all the program windows, here we can press the set "Parallel all programs" hotkey.
Figure 2 Window Switching
3. Setting Energy Saving Effect
At the same time, TopDesk provides energy saving function. When the program detects that the CPU usage is too high, the program will automatically shut down to save energy.
In the advanced settings, you can reduce the CPU power consumption by setting the project such as software performance. In order to save system energy better, you can also set accordingly. Switch to "Advanced Settings" and in the "Performance" item we can choose an energy saving method, such as 32-bit image, low priority and so on. In the "Full Screen 3D Accelerator" project, select Stop TopDesk and disable the bubble help prompt so that when a full screen 3D acceleration program is detected, the bubble prompt is turned off. With TopDesk, you don't think it's much easier to switch between programs.
Second, let the desktop have 3D effect
Now some operating systems can provide a virtual desktop and can achieve stereo switching effect, this function can make a desktop into multiple, different programs in different desktop operations This makes it easy to switch, and the desktop is clean and the effect is very good. To have this feature in Vista, you need to install a virtual desktop management software.
DeskSpace is a very good virtual desktop software, which uses 4D cube rotation to switch between 4 virtual desktops, and each desktop can have different wallpapers and icons, and there are many shortcuts. The keys can be customized. This allows you to place different files on different desktops to manage the categorized files.
1. Set the desktop switch hotkey
DeskSpace uses the hotkeys to switch between the desktops. Before using, we will set the hotkeys for the four desktops. Select "Options" from the right-click menu to open the Options dialog box and switch to the "Desktop" item to hotkey the four desktops of the system (Figure 3).
Figure 3 DeskSpace hotkey
2. Quickly switch the desktop
After setting, press the hotkey will automatically switch to the corresponding desktop, and can be switched to 3D form, very beautiful (Figure 4 ).
Figure 4 Interface Switching
When a file or program is dragged to the edge of the desktop, DeskSpace will automatically launch and switch to the adjacent desktop, so you can easily switch without any operation. Go to the adjacent desktop. Different wallpapers can be set in the 4 virtual desktops provided by the DeskSpace program, which gives us different moods when operating the computer.
3. Make desktop switching more convenient
Provides a cool 3D magic switching desktop function in DeskSpace. This 3D effect makes our desktop more personalized. You can set it as needed, and switch to the “Activate” interface in the option interface. Here we can set the 3D switching effect to rotate the hotkey, so that you can use the hotkey to switch between the desktops later.
If you select "Use the mouse wheel to switch desktop" in the "Mouse" option, we can also quickly switch to the adjacent desktop by scrolling up and down when operating the computer.
How about virtual desktops How do you feel, having multiple operating environments on one computer gives us different moods.
Third, the Dock toolbar is easy to own
There is a Dock program in Mac OS, this program can implement the 3D effect of the toolbar, and can start the program startup entry. The ability to expand functions and animation effects, let users feel the fashion and speed of the operation. Although Vista has changed the desktop effect, it does not have a 3D effect. ObjectDock is a software that can realistically simulate the Mac OS Dock toolbar. Most of the functions can be implemented, including dynamic mouse zoom of icons, flexible drag and drop, and support for drag and drop of executable files and folders. The way, with this software you can quickly have a stylish and fast desktop.
1. Create a personalized Dock toolbar
After the ObjectDock installation, start the program we can see a personalized toolbar below the desktop (Figure 5), by default the program provides a shortcut icon commonly used in the system , move your mouse over the icon and the icon will be animated.
Figure 5 Personality Toolbar
The program also provides a variety of effects. If you are not satisfied with the current Dock toolbar color, you can change the background of other effects as needed. When replacing, right click on the blank of the toolbar, select “Dock Bar Settings” in the pop-up menu, open the “ObjectDock Properties” window, and switch to the “Appearance” item to set the toolbar (Figure 6). First adjust the size of the mouse in the "icon size", in the background drop-down menu, you can select a theme of the toolbar, you can see that the toolbar has been changed. In the "Location" interface, we can set the position and spacing of the Dock toolbar on the screen. In the "Special Effects" interface, we can set the effects of the mouse over the Dock bar. It can be set here as needed.
Figure 6 Dock Toolbar Adjustment
2. Add more programs
In this toolbar, we can also add shortcut icons for more programs, right click on the blank space of the toolbar, in In the pop-up context menu, select “Add” → “New Shortcut”, and a “Dock Project Properties” dialog box will pop up. Click the "Browse" button here to select the program to be added, then click the "Open" button to import the program into the dialog. Then click "Change Image" to select a favorite icon, the program supports PNG format icon, after confirmation, the icon can be added to the Dock toolbar.
In addition, the program also supports the drag and drop method, by which we can directly drag the shortcut icon on the desktop to the toolbar, which is very convenient. In addition, the ObjectDock server provides more background effects and theme interfaces that we can download and use as needed.