Ben's Blog World: Customize Task Manager colors with Task Manager Modder

Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Customize Task Manager colors with Task Manager Modder

You may not call Task Manager up all that often -- and if you do, you've probably grown accustomed to its green-on-black color scheme. If, on the other hand, you're a customizer of all things Windows, you might want to tweak those defaults to something which coordinates better with your overall desktop theme.

Task Manager Modder is just the tool for the job. Launch it, adjust the sliders (or enter hex codes) until the color scheme meets your particular needs, then apply the changes. You can also load a custom .BMP for the memory and CPU bars. To fall back to the Windows default, just click the Restore Task Manager button.

As with any tweaking tool, it's a good idea to create a system restore point before making any changes.