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hey guys today I'm here with a tutorial showing you how to customize your windows 7 taskbar so why should I well I wasn't planning on doing this tutorial but in my one of my recent screencasts I got I got a ton of comments people asking how did you do that what's that thing so basically I'll go ahead and show you guys how to do it yourself shouldn't take you just a few minutes basically just download one program and I'll show you how to customize the icon so let's go ahead just jump right into it so the first thing you're going to need to go ahead and do of course this is Windows 7 only the first thing you're going to need to go ahead and do is download this program it's called Windows 7 Start button changer which I know is a fantastic name so basically the way you want this basically just go ahead and download it and I'll show you it lets you allows you to customize fully your Windows 7 Start button okay so once you download the program just go ahead and open it up and it's really pretty simple so there are two options there's obviously the main one which is to select and change your Start button um however one thing I do want to let you guys know about is that there is another one that's basically that restores your original home ravish your original Start button I may actually want to do this because the program when you pick a custom one and maybe you might not like it obviously you know I customized it to bunch myself if you don't like it all you need to do is go ahead and click the original restore back up it'll revert you back to the normal one and then you can pick another one if you try with one customize and you try another customize a lot of times it won't work so go ahead and just restore to backup and then try again if you're interested so that's going to show you a few of them that are already pre-built as you can see here when you download the program it does come with ten sample orbs pre-built now actually Debian art is a fantastic place if you don't like any of these you absolutely can download many many more it's no big deal and all you need to do is just go ahead and point the program towards it but for this I'm going to show you there are 10 pre-built I'll do like quite a few of them in fact I do like this one as you can see here right there it actually kind of fits well I can't see it but you can if it's well with my background so again pick you pick any of these you can make your own or you can download some that's why just pick that out and there you go now let's go ahead move on to customizing your icons so this one is a lot simpler pretty much it comes down to picking what kind of icons you like so this is the one I'm currently using it's token now of course while the link to this one as well the description so basically you go ahead just download this and indeed just the same way with your Start button you can create your own or you can search Debian art is great for finding tons and tons and tons of custom icons so absolutely feel free to find your own anyway if you're interested in this we can go ahead and download it and I just go ahead and show you it's pretty simple - how to add it so let's say you know I will say that there are programs that will do this automatically for you but personally I've found is you know it's a lot easier to just go ahead and do it yourself manually it doesn't take a minute so let's just go and show you head to it so let's go actually go ahead and pick GIMP so basically what you do is you need to right-click whatever your icons you wanting to change then come up here to where it says the name of the program so it should be right on the bottom now right-click this and hit properties so as you can see here it will bring up the little properties a dialog now come down here and hit change icon now once you're in change icon I need to do is find it so just look for browse I'm going to go ahead and go down to go ahead and go down here to the token file and obviously during this step you go ahead and pick whatever you want go ahead and just look through here go ahead and just pick out the token theme does have quite a few or the token icons whatever you want to call them it is up quite a few in the dark as well as light so you know maybe you can look for you know maybe you want to look like an airplane now this one actually does have quite a few icons actually as you can see here it does have an icon for camp but obviously this is totally customized customizable you can pick whatever you want so maybe I want GIMP to look like a camera I want GIMP to look like QuickTime you can do pretty much anything you want so guys that's pretty much it as far as how to go ahead and customize it basically what you do is restart do H H and every icon now doesn't have icons for everything obviously so you know you might want to mix and match or do whatever you want and then as soon as you're done now again actually it's kind of same with the start button if it's not showing up for you just restart your computer that should do it because it has two recache all the icons but once you do it's they all should pop up and it should look pretty much like I have here or indeed however you customized it so hey guys I hope you enjoyed this tutorial and yeah thanks for watching