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[TuT] Change Windows 7 ORB Style

Hi. This is a tutorial on how to change Windows 7's ORB.

Getting Started
First, download the free Windows 7 Start Button Changer (link below), and extract the contents of the folder. It contains the app along with a selection of alternate start button orbs you can try out.



Changing the Start Orb.
Once this is finished, run the Windows 7 Start Button Changer as administrator by right-clicking on it and selecting “Run as administrator”. Accept the UAC prompt that will appear.



You should now see the Windows 7 Start Button Changer. On the left it shows what your current (default) start orb looks like inactive, when hovered over, and when selected. Click the orb on the right to select a new start button.



Here we browsed to the sample orbs folder, and selected one of them. Let’s give Windows the Media Center orb for a start orb. Click the orb you want, and then select open. When you click Open, your screen will momentarily freeze and your taskbar will disappear. When it reappears, your computer will have gone from having the old, default Start orb style.

<- Changed

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I don't know how safe this link is, because the official one was dead and I found it on google. So execute with caution!

Thanks for the tutorial! Some people should find this very useful.

Thanks for the tutorial it is really useful!

Nice share
Your download link is dead.

Thanks Nemmyy. I have replaced the link now, enjoy. Also, I believe this method works with the upcoming SP update.

I have changed the icon but it sucks, my previous was better.
Thank you anyway ;)

There are a few other icons in that folder pack, John*. Which reminds me, time to change mine lol.

Ooh, thank you for telling me that. I just saw that there are other icons in that pack. Going to change the icon ;)

Do you have any orb downloads we can use?

I believe this program gives you the option to run as a portable version or install to your system so you can change the orb through your computer appearance/theme settings as well. I use the program, and it works really good for an interesting visual

Thanks for sharing this