Make Windows 7 look like WP7 with Metro Home

We’ve seen some interesting ways for users to spice up their Windows 7 desktop by adding themes and skins. After Microsoft unveiled it’s new Windows Phone 7 mobile OS, we even saw a very impressive way to take that theme to your Windws 7 desktop through Rainmeter’s Omnimo UI theme.

Now, we have another way to make our Windows 7 desktops look more like the Windows Phone OS using HTC Home’s Vista and Windows 7 desktop widgets. HTC Home dubs these widgets “Metro Home” and it is essentially a special version of HTC Home with a “dynamic interface in the Metro style.”

System requirements according to their website are:

PC with Windows Vista or Windows 7 (32 or 64-bit operation systems). The program also may function with other Windows operation systems, but we cannot guarantee that.Internet connection (also possible through proxy-server)Installed Microsoft.NET Framework 4

In the brief amount of time I played with Metro Home I found some oddities. First of all, the weather and temperature were way off. It’s currently 52 degrees where I live, but the metro weather widget was reading 3 to 11 degrees. Also, the pictures widget seems to be non-customizable, meaning that I couldn’t figure out how to point the widget to my personal pictures folder. The ability to separate the widgets and reorganize them is also a mystery. All in all, the widgets are very metro-esque, but the lack of customization is a huge drawback.

Metro Home is an open-source operation that is dependant on donations, so if you like the project and want to see them develop it even more, you might want to check it out here.

Source: HTC Home, WPCentral

Tags: htc home, metro, Metro Home, themes, widget, Windows 7

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