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How to turn Bing background images off (and on, again)

UXPassion.com — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 21:13:09 +0000

Sometime ago I've explained how to enable and show images on Live Search home page. Now when Live Search has gone and we are dealing with Bing, you have nice images every day by default – but how would you go and turn them off and on again? It's not like I want to do that, but I thought it would be an interesting idea to share.

HOW TO: Show large icons in Windows Vista / XP QuickLaunch bar?

UXPassion.com — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 00:15:51 +0000

Are you sick and tired of small icons in your QuickLaunch bar? Or you like them but you would like to try out something new? Well look no more, in this short HOW TO article I will show you how easy it is to enlarge icons in QuickLaunch bar and make your Taskbar distinctive. I [...]

HOW TO: Make taskbar in Windows Vista/XP to look more like one in Windows 7

UXPassion.com — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 21:23:28 +0000

While you are waiting for Windows 7 to go into beta and after that to go into RTM and become broadly available, you can play with your Windows Vista /XP taskbar and make it to resemble one in Windows 7. Of course, resemblance will be just slight, but still interesting to play with. PLEASE NOTE: [...]