Windows Vista, as pretty as it looks, can still use some prettying up. Here’s a list of utilities (all developed by one person: Andreas Verhoeven) which contribute to improving the look and feel of your beautiful Windows Vista.

Glass Toasts - this allows your system tray notifications to have the Aero Glass look. This surely beats the relatively ugly looking tips that we see today. This one works on Windows XP as well. So, if you are still running XP, you can still give this a spin.

3D User Picture - this one is a favorite. It replaces the user picture in the Start Menu with a much better alternative: an animated 3-D picture.

This surely beats the comparatively dull looking picture that you get on the Start Menu.

This however comes at a small cost (nopes, you don’t need to pay for any licensing). The cost is that you need to have a DirectX capable Graphics card for this to work.

Thumbnail Resizer - this one is really good for those of you who have high resolution monitors and so those thumbnails  that are show when you hover above the taskbar buttons become really small. This allows you to resize the thumbnails to suit your vision. The source code is available for this if you want to see how it is working under the hood.

To get a hold of all these cool tools, visit Ave’s Vista Stuff. He has another tool up there for you to checkout.