Take Windows 7 Customization to the next level with the awesome Desktop Icon Toy software! Take cool looking shapes with a bunch of your icons and other cool stuff.. Check this video out..

Say hello to the XWindows Dock 2.2 beta! Impressive quality and performance, gorgeous look and lots of improvements make the dreams come true.

Remember that this is still a beta version. That means some bugs, unimplemented functions etc. So if you have issues or feature requests with this version, feel free to ask at XWindows Dock duscussion forum.

A calendar always come in handy. There are plenty of great calendar gadgets for Vista and Windows 7.

If you are using the Windows Live service, you’ll always have to log into your account to check your important dates. To avoid that you can simply install the calendar gadget for Windows 7 and do that right on your desktop.

Although this is still a alpha release the gadget is working very well and you no longer have to log into calendar.live.com manually.

You can download the calendar gadget over at Codeplex:
http://wlcalendargadget.codeplex.com

You can set a start and end date for events and also get an alarm message whenever it is needed. You can also add html text to the description and add useful links. Definitely comes in handy!

How to change the Start button in Windows 7? Its fairly simple, with a Windows 7 Resource editor you can edit the explorer.exe and change the looks of your Start button!

Since we’re going to change a system file, we’re first going to make a clone of explorer.exe, go to your Windows folder and copy the file “explorer.exe” & rename the copy to “explorer2.exe”.

Here are the steps..

1. Download the Windows 7 Resource Hacker.

Download ResourceHacker 32-bit (Vista, Windows 7, XP)
Download ResourceHacker 64-bit (Vista, Windows 7, XP)

2. Start the file “ResHacker.exe”

3. Go to: File > Open to open the explorer.exe. You will find it in your Windows folder C:\Windows

4. Uncollapse the folder “Bitmap”. We are going to change the files in folder “6801″, “6805″ and “6809″.

We need to replace every Start button .bmp file.

5. Uncollapse “6801″ and right-click on the entry “1033″ and click on “Replace Resource..”:

Shutdown timer for Windows 7 can become very handy when it gets down to scheduling your PC shut downs. When you have certain programs running and you gotta leave, scheduling your shut down is very useful and easy.

This software can force your PC to shutdown even  if there are still many active applications running. By default it is enabled, to disable this feature simply go to “Preferences”. This awesome tool also allows you to minimize the shutdown timer to system tray..