All versions of the Windows operating system are full of options, configurations,and settings, and they all are meant to provide you with the same thing: control over the behaviour of your operating system, particularly, control over how it looks and performs. Unfortunately, this amount of control is limited by many things, for many reasons. When you reach these limitations, you must find a way to defeat them.

 When dealing with the visual customization of your OS, the limitations are greater then ever, and of course, the older the OS, the less control you have over what it can do, and what you can customize. Most, not all, but most of these visual appearance limitations can be overcome, at least somewhat anyway, by coming through the many backdoors of the OS, and working from there.

 That's what this site is all about, altering the OS itself to give you the control you should have, and making it so simple that anyone can do it. How is it done? Through the use of Resource Hacker, a 32-bit Windows PE (DLL/EXE) file editor. Most things you see within the user interface of an application, or throughout the Windows OS on dialogs, windows, etc... such as bitmaps, icons, buttons, text, menus, etc... are called "Resources". They are contained within, and called from certain DLL and EXE files related to the application, or the OS in question. Resource Hacker will allow you to go inside of the DLL and EXE files, and perform surgery so to speak on all of these resources. It gets tricky sometimes, and can be a very confusing process, but, most of the tutorials here are step-by-step and very easy. The goal here is to provide you with the options, all in one place, allowing you to be able to customize your OS just that much more, and use these options in your way, doing what you wish.

 Keep in mind though, that even Resource Hacker has it's limitations. Resources are not actual program code. The way in which the application or OS in question actually works cannot be altered by modifying it's associated resources. The closest thing to that is when you edit menus, command line calls/functions, or actually add resources from one location to another, and they actually work as intended. Other ways make for good examples also, but those come to mind immediatly, and are also the most widely known. So, in other words, you don't have to be a programmer to understand the information found here at this site. The use of Resource Hacker is always growing larger, always new things poping up at all times, learning more and more each day, discovering new resources, new ways to modify them, and continuously barrelling over eachh limitation as it comes. I hope you enjoy your time here, and take with you a new perspective on the customization of your operating system. Have fun!