If its vista or windows 7 destroy the task bar with this application. Windows took away the opiton of permanantly hiding it. This way you can make full use of your screens size on the net. If you ever need it you can toggle the bastard using alt+T and the start menu can be accessed using the windows button.

> http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/548...nable.html

If you need themes head over to deviant art and learn step by step how to customize your windows surrounding your programz. The talented people over there work with allot of nerdy stuff I can't really understand . Some even go as far as fully emulating apple's UI and cover flow style previewz.