The top 5 secret windows customization tools nobody talks about!

Summary

Discover five unique Windows customization tools that not only enhance the look of your desktop but also improve your computing experience with minimal impact on performance. The guide introduces you to secretive tools like DWM Blur Glass for a glass effect on apps, Yasp Reborn for a retro status bar, and Windhawk for taskbar styling, among others. The transcript provides detailed installation steps, usage instructions, and highlights the tools' low resource consumption, ultimately transforming your Windows into a functional, visually appealing, retro-themed setup.

Highlights

• Transform your desktop with an aesthetically pleasing glass effect using DWM Blur Glass. 😍
• Install a retro style status bar with Yasp Reborn, filled with useful real-time data. 📈
• Customize your taskbar and start menu with Windhawk, adding a unique retro touch. 🎨
• Enhance your music experience with Fluent Flyout for easy access to music controls. 🎧
• Create a visually stunning and well-organized desktop with minimal performance impact. 🚀

Key Takeaways

• Unleash the hidden aesthetic potential of your Windows desktop with five secretive tools. 🎨
• DWM Blur Glass gives your apps a stunning glass effect while keeping CPU usage low. 🖥
• Yasp Reborn offers a retro status bar with tons of information without hogging resources. 📊
• Windhawk customizes your taskbar and start menu, adding a retro flair. 🕹
• Fluent Flyout is perfect for music lovers who want stylish and efficient controls. 🎶

Overview

In this video, Unknown Tech takes you on a journey to transform your Windows desktop into a unique and visually striking environment. Starting with DWM Blur Glass, they introduce a tool that applies a subtle glass effect to your apps, giving them a sleek and modern look without affecting performance. The step-by-step guide ensures that even those new to customization can follow along and achieve the same beautiful results.

Next up, the video introduces Yasp Reborn, a tool that not only brings an eye-catching retro status bar to your screen but also provides real-time data like weather and system performance stats. This high level of customization paired with low resource usage makes it a standout choice. Additionally, Windhawk is showcased for its ability to modify the taskbar and start menu with a retro theme, effectively enhancing the overall aesthetic of your setup.

Finally, Unknown Tech wraps up with Fluent Flyout and some great wallpaper options. Fluent Flyout offers sleek music control widgets for easy adjustments, while the choice of wallpapers helps tie the whole look together. The overall impact is a desktop that operates smoothly, offers practical enhancements, and looks fantastic. Whether you're a music lover, nostalgic for retro aesthetics, or simply want to refresh your system's appearance, these tools provide the perfect solutions.

Chapters

• 00:00 - 00:30: Introduction to Top 5 Windows Customization Tools The chapter introduces the 'Top 5 Windows Customization Tools' by emphasizing the aesthetic and functional enhancements they bring to a Windows desktop. It highlights that these tools are unique, going beyond common setups like Ray Meter. With options ranging from custom blur themes and retro-style status bars to features for music lovers and coders, these tools promise a comprehensive transformation of the PC experience with minimal performance impact. The chapter suggests that setting up these tools is quick and easy and is presented by Unknown Tech, a source familiar with diverse tech topics.
• 00:30 - 02:30: Tool 1: Glass Effect with DWM Blur Glass In this chapter, the focus is on enhancing the visual aesthetics of applications by implementing a glass effect. This effect is achieved using a tool called DWM Blur Glass, which can be found on a specified GitHub repository. Additional resources and links related to the setup are available on the presenter's website.
• 02:30 - 05:30: Tool 2: Retro Status Bar with Yasp Reborn The chapter titled 'Tool 2: Retro Status Bar with Yasp Reborn' provides instructions on how to access and install the Retro Status Bar tool via Yasp Reborn. It begins by guiding users to the download location, specifically the releases page, and explains how to download the necessary file. Post download, users are instructed on how to extract the files from the downloaded zip file to a selected folder; it's suggested to use a newly created folder for better organization. The chapter reassures users about the safety of the downloaded tools and emphasizes downloading them from official pages, all with the aim of maintaining security.
• 05:30 - 07:30: Customizing the Wallpaper This chapter guides you through the process of customizing the wallpaper using a specific application. It begins by instructing you to run the .exe file after installation, reassuring you about potential security warnings due to the app's unrecognizable developer status. You are advised to proceed by clicking 'more info' and 'run anyway.' Once in the menu, important steps include selecting 'install' at the top menu and within a secondary menu. The chapter emphasizes tweaking settings to enhance visual effects such as enabling 'blur radius' and adjusting its value to 50, followed by configuring settings under the 'advanced tab.'
• 07:30 - 09:30: Tool 3: Windows UI Modifications with Windhawk Windhawk offers customization for Windows UI, allowing users to modify the appearance of window titles and other elements. Users can change the title color, with white recommended for better visibility in this setup. The app is easily removable through a simple uninstall process. Once set up, it applies a unique glass-like effect to the top of windows, providing a visually appealing enhancement to apps like File Explorer and Task Manager.
• 09:30 - 10:30: Tool 4: Music Widget with Fluent Flyout The chapter introduces Tool 4, a music widget with a fluent flyout, emphasizing its customization abilities for desktop enhancement. The tool is lightweight, with minimal CPU and memory usage, adding to its appeal. Besides visual enhancements, the chapter suggests installing mods for improved user experience, highlighting a retro status bar that displays essential information like weather and internet speeds.
• 10:30 - 15:00: Easter Egg: Customizing Windows Terminal This chapter discusses the process of customizing the Windows Terminal. It begins by introducing a tool called Yasp Reborn, which is available on GitHub, with a link provided in the description for easy access. A crucial step before installing the tool is installing a specific font for the top bar, which can be found on the GitHub page or through a search. This font is downloaded as a zip folder, and it is recommended to extract its contents into a separate, dedicated folder. Following extraction, the next step is to open the selected folder containing all the font files.
• 15:00 - 16:00: Conclusion and Invitation to Subscribe This chapter provides a step-by-step guide on setting up a particular software application from start to finish. It begins by guiding the users to install necessary fonts and proceeds to describe the process of downloading the main application from GitHub. The instructions are detailed, covering the download from the releases page, running the downloaded file, and choosing a folder for the installation. The chapter concludes by completing the installation process.

The top 5 secret windows customization tools nobody talks about! Transcription

• 00:00 - 00:30 This is not your typical Windows desktop. It does not only just look good, but it also significantly improves how you use Windows. But don't be fooled. This isn't just another Ray Meter setup everyone's seen before. No, we went deep to find five unique tools most people don't even know exist. From a custom blur theme and a retro style status bar to features tailored for music lovers and coders, these tools will completely change your PC. Also, for all of these tools, we have especially checked that the performance impact stays minimal. With our help, you will be able to build this setup in just a blink of an eye. By the way, we're Unknown Tech and we've covered tons of
• 00:30 - 01:00 content like this, so you're in good hands. With that said, let's dive in. Let's start with a simple yet very unique change, a glass effect for your applications. It's a small change, yet you will notice it all the time as you see these every time you open up an application. To get this super cool effect, we need to head to this GitHub repo to install a tool called DWM Blur Glass. You can find a link to the page in the video description. By the way, you can also find all the links needed for this setup on our website where we also have some more infos on the setup for you. Now, if you're on the GitHub
• 01:00 - 01:30 page, you need to head to the releases page, which you can ASIS by clicking here. On this page, scroll to the bottom and download this file. After the download, you get a zip file. So, let's extract the files from it. Just go into your download folder and rightclick the folder. Then, click here on extract all and select a folder where you want to save the files. We recommend you to create a new folder for all the tools of this video. And just in case if you are wondering if these tools are safe, don't worry, the tools are known in the community and we personally check them with antivirus tools. Just make sure you get them from the official pages. To
• 01:30 - 02:00 finish the installation, run the.exe file inside the app files. Don't worry about this message. It's just because the tool is not from a big developer, but as I said, it's nothing to worry about. Just click on more info and run it anyway. This will automatically open a menu where you can change some settings of the app. But before we proceed with the setup, you need to do two really important steps. First hit install on the top of the menu. Then click on symbol here and also hit install in this menu. Now let's just quickly fix some settings to improve the effect. Toggle blur radius on and then move it to 50. After that go in the advanced tab and change the effect type
• 02:00 - 02:30 by clicking here and selecting arrow. Now just save the settings here. If you have trouble with the visibility, you can change the color of the window title here. I would recommend you to change this color to white for this setup. Click on confirm and don't forget to save. You can also very easily remove the app if you don't need it anymore. Just click here on uninstall and then delete all the files in the folder. If you now open up your file explorer or your task manager or many other apps, you will have this very unique glass-like effect on the top of the window. Personally, I find this really cool, especially compared to
• 02:30 - 03:00 customization tools for your desktop, as you will notice these changes all the time, even when you can't see the desktop. Besides that, the tool only needs 0.16% CPU and just a very humble 2.5 MGB of RAM. So, it's pretty low on performance, which is also awesome. But these changes are still only visual. So, let's install some mods that can also improve your user experience. Let's get to the real highlight. This retro like status bar I have shown you in the intro. Not only does it just look amazing, it also provides you with tons of useful information like the current weather, your upload or download speeds,
• 03:00 - 03:30 and classic system relevant aspects. Again, we need to go to GitHub for this tool, which is called Yasp Reborn. But don't worry, there's also a link in the description so you can find it easily. Now, this step is again very important. Before we can get to the real installation, we need to install a font for the top bar. Just use this link on the GitHub page or search for the font. The font comes in a zip folder. So again, extract the files by right clicking the folder and clicking on extract. As these are a bunch of files, I would advise you to extract them in an own folder. After that, just open the folder you chose to put all the fonts
• 03:30 - 04:00 in. Here mark all the files and then rightclick and press on install. This will install all the fonts for you. With that out of the way, head back to GitHub to install the full application. For that, click here on releases and scroll down on the page to download this file. In the downloads, run the dox file we just downloaded. Now, you select a folder to store the files for the installation. Create a new one and then select this new folder like I'm showing it here. Press next to continue. Now, click finish and YASB is installed. As you can see, nothing changed yet because we need to run the
• 04:00 - 04:30 file first. For that, go to the folder you installed the app in. Then, scroll to the button and run the.exe file. Now, we also need the retro theme for the status bar. For that, open your system tray and right click on this logo, then hit get themes. Actually, Aspbury has tons of different themes, all with unique features, so feel free to look for the perfect one if you like. For this setup, we will go with the Spectrum Symphony one. Just press install here to get it. This leaves us with this super cool and colorful status bar that gives a really cool retro vibe to your
• 04:30 - 05:00 computer. Also, if you click here on the power off button, you get a super clean shut off menu. Before we continue with this tool, you also need to enable the auto start. Again, in the system tray, right click the icon and click on enable auto start. By the way, if you like to change the weather location, open up the system tray again and right click the Yasby icon, then click on config and in the file explorer, open this file with the notepad. Now, click on edit and then on find then type in location. Here, remove Los Angeles and type in the name of the city you want. For example, New York.
• 05:00 - 05:30 Then just save it. And the best thing about all of this, the tool only takes up about 25 MGB of RAM and uses just a mere 0.3% CPU as shown by the Windows performance monitor. This is quite good compared to other tools that do the same thing. If you still decide that you don't want this tool, you can uninstall it by running the installer again and then clicking on uninstall. All of this looks already great, but it's nothing without a great wallpaper. Before we get to that, let's remove those cluttered desktop icons as we can search for the
• 05:30 - 06:00 apps anyway. Just right click the desktop and then navigate to view and click hide desktop icons. Now for the wallpaper, we will keep it simple with wallpaper engine, a quite popular tool. Unfortunately, it costs $5, but we will also show you a free alternative later. You can get the tool from Steam with the link in the description or from our website. After the installation, search of the tool and open it like this so we can choose the wallpaper. In the app, in the discovery tab, search for mountains and on the second page, you will find this wallpaper called mountains. Click on it and then hit subscribe to apply it. This
• 06:00 - 06:30 wallpaper matches perfectly the aesthetic of the retro taskbar and looks really amazing. But now let me show you the free alternative. The tool I'm talking about is of course Lively Wallpaper. You can get it from the Microsoft Store. I have also linked you the site in the description. Just press download here and everything will be installed for you. This tool uses custom video files as wallpapers. So let's download one that matches our aesthetic. I have chosen this forest wallpaper which you can download from this site also linked under the video. Now to set it up, click on add wallpaper. Then
• 06:30 - 07:00 press choose file and navigate to the downloaded video and hit open. This wallpaper is also a great fit for the overall aesthetic of the setup and it matches perfectly. Besides that, the performance impact is also acceptable, especially as these tools can turn off when you have apps open in full screen. Wallpaper engine takes 0.35% CPU and 10 megabytes of RAM. And lively wallpaper takes a bit more, but nothing to worry about. With the wallpaper, the setup already looks really professional, but it's still missing something. You are right, it's the taskbar. We will change
• 07:00 - 07:30 this with our next tool, Windhawk. I really like this step as it will significantly improve the feel of your system as you can change a lot of the Windows UI with this tool. For example, you can give your start menu this retrovibe and make the taskbar much cleaner. Now, let's get the tool from their website linked under the video. Run the downloaded file to start the setup process. The setup is simple. Click okay here and now. Next. In this menu, uncheck desktop shortcut and press next again. Here, select a folder to store the files of the app and then hit install. After the installation, this
• 07:30 - 08:00 menu from where you can install tons of mods for your PC will be automatically opened. Let's install some mods now. For that, go to the explore tab and click on the start menu styler. Then click install. Don't worry about this message. The tools were all checked by professionals on GitHub, so they are safe to use. Just accept the risks. After that, go to the settings and from this menu, chose the roadben style. Now, hit save to apply the changes. The next mod is the taskbar styler. Again, click install and accept the risk to install it. As you can see, there are tons of different themes here, but we will use the rose pin one matching to the start
• 08:00 - 08:30 menu. The setup is the same as before. Go to the settings and in the menu, select rose pin and hit save. The last windark mod is the notification styler. Again, click install and ignore the warning. Then go in the settings and in the menu, select the translucent shell and save everything. With this tool, we now have this super cool dock and retro like taskbar and a very unique start menu with lots of great colors. Also, your notifications now have a translucent theme which fits perfectly to the glass effect on the Windows. What's also amazing is that this tool is
• 08:30 - 09:00 super performance friendly because it almost needs no CPU power and only like 1 or 2 megabytes of RAM. The next step is a bit easier to set up. We will now install the widget for people who like to listen to music often. It's called Fluent Flyout and you can also get it from the Microsoft Store with the link in the description. After the install, you can open the settings through the system tray. In here, you can change a bunch of stuff, but for our setup, we don't need to change anything. You can access the tool when you are listening to music with all the music shortcuts, for example, when you make the music louder or you skip a song. With this
• 09:00 - 09:30 little menu, you can skip songs and pause them. And it also looks really cool. Besides that, it's also good optimized with 0.1% of CPU usage and 10 MB of RAM usage. We are almost done now, but I have a really cool Easter egg for you before we are finished. In this last step, we will customize your command app completely native with Windows. So, it looks really cool, which is perfect for people who are into coding. Now, to do this, first open up your terminal. Go to the settings by clicking on this arrow and then navigating to settings. First, go to appearance and turn on acrylic material. Don't forget to save this step
• 09:30 - 10:00 here. Now, go on the terminal you want to change, for example, power shell. Then, scroll all the way to the bottom and click on appearance. Now scroll all the way to the bottom and decrease the background opacity to 20% and check enable acrylic material. Click save to apply the changes. This will give you this gorgeous window-like effect. If you scroll a bit down, you can click here to use your current wallpaper as a background or you click on browse and select a custom image. With the background image, this effect also looks really cool. On the top of the appearance settings, you can select a good theme for the colors of your code
• 10:00 - 10:30 so it's visible with your new background. If we look at everything together now, we have a very special retro like setup that looks professional, unique, and also offers some new functions for your Windows. With the start menu and the blur theme, we also have some changes that you will notice all the time. And with a minimal performance impact, the setup also fits on older machines. If you need more detailed informations and all the links, you can also check out our website. And for technical questions, you can visit our Discord. With that said, we would really appreciate a sub to the channel and a like on the video. And feel free to comment some new suggestions in the
• 10:30 - 11:00 comment section.