im not sure if anyone else has even noticed. Any window you have currently selected, has a bright blue line around the bottom and right side. its only about a pixel or two wide but damn is it ugly. its so bright its almost teal.

It was designed that way.

the "transparent" window frame was designed to have an opaque bright blue line around it?

say it aint so....

Its supposed to make the glass effect look more real. Yes it does look ugly but it was designed that way.

oh i see what you mean.. i maximize all my windows except WLM, so it's not a big problem for me... but i can see why you think it's ugly.

just ignore it i guess

I don't like it either.

I on the other had think visually it looks great.

everything EXCEPT the 2 pixel teal line looks friggin great! don't get me wrong. but the solid blue line absolutely retracts from the overall visual cool'ness.

I agree, off with its head!

one of the first things I noticed too... Why is it only on the bottom and right side though? Is it suppose to be some kind of shadow off the glass?

You could always patch uxtheme.dll and use some resource hacking tool (not reshack) that can handle PNG images and then remove the blue line in photoshop.

I didn't even notice it until I read this...

That little line really irritates me!

I don't seem to notice it that much.

Same here. It really isn't that noticeable.

would be great if someone found away to remove it! I really dislike it and see know reason for it to be like that!

I always assumed it was to make the edges stand out to make resizing windows easier. It stands out more than the transparent border, so I guess that makes it easier to see and click on. That's my best guess, but I don't mind it ever since I found out it wasn't a glitch back in beta 2.

when the window is in the background its white, wish it would just stay that way all the time!

I though i were the only one hating it..
Use the .msstyle, and it's gone.. Have fun..

http://rapidshare.com/files/14763789/aero.rar.html

^^ that didn't work at all!

Yes it does.

I didn't work for me
Was I supposed to just double click on it? or maybe do something slightly more elaborate

You're <snipped> me? It's a friggin .msstyle! You're suppos to patch your uxtheme, themeui and shvcs then replace this with the original .msstyle.

No need for such language. Custom Vista styles are applied differently than how they were in XP. It's not "common knowledge" as your post seems to suggest, unless you've read a tutorial or something of the sort. He probably wasn't aware that you had to actually replace the default msstyle. So chill.

rofl

Oh thats how you do it, knew i was missing something and to think all this time it was such a simple task,
way less complicated than double clicking on it!

Watch the swearing.... please!

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Screenshot of said blue line?

@Bawx Sorry I cant show you a screen shot now as I just removed the blue lines

@Lenin91 Thanks for the fix its working perfectly!
To be perfectly honest I was hoping not to do any patching, but its done now so thanks again!

no problem, sorry for the swearing

that line is certainly an eyesore. I can't believe some of you haven't noticed the blue line. It seriously bugs me.

Can someone post this terrible blue line? I gotta see!

Think of the children man!

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Screenshot.

yuck. the whole thing looks nasty to me anyway, and i'd never concider upgrading.

Then remove it.

Right click on the desktop and click on Personalize. Click on Windows Color and Appearance, then click on "Open classic appearance properties for more color options".
In the Appearance Settings window, click on Advanced.
Hit the dropdown for Border Padding, and you can take it all the way down to zreo, which will give you bare minimum border. After you have it set, hit OK and/or Apply when necessary to close out back to your desktop.

I noticed it immediately and I can see both sides of this discussion - but I say: why do you even care? Really, is it worth complaining about? Here are some more serious problems:
- NVIDIA = crappy Vista drivers,
- Creative = crappy drivers for everything,
- WPF/.NET3 applications take too long to initialise,
- Stupid JAVA causes problems with Aero,
- Microsoft's Vista advertising campaign has been so far pretty poor, and the public are confused about it,
- The press are making unfairly attacking Vista (mainly because journos use Macs),
- Apple couldn't make iTunes work with Vista in the 6+ months they had (or they are doing it on purpose),
- The first batch of Vista PC's we recieved from OEMs (HP, Acer, etc) took a half hour each to setup, and some of the Acer machines had bad activation and needed to be activated by customers,

OK... So the blue line does match Vista's blue glow behind buttons and etc, which means it does fit-in graphically - but it doesn't really need to be there. If anything, it probably clutters the window frames more than it improves them. But as I said, it's not the most pressing issue with Vista... or the world.

^^ I care because i can do somthing about it, its gone now.
And Yes its not a big issue but it is still a issue for some and by sharing it a solution has been highlighted!

your right, but starting yet another thread about how there is no sli support or crappy drivers for this or that, this thread actually prompted a fix.

Hey it worked! Even if it's set to 1 you can still see it if you look close enough. On 0 it's barely noticeable.

Thanks! Much better!

lol what about my aero

perfect. thanks for the msstyle!

I tried the modded msstyle but it just doesn't look right... Dunno, i'm so used to the blue border that i can't miss it anymore...

Small Bug - A small semi transparent "corner" is left on the top and bottom left sides of the window, a faint white glow gives it away..

Naw, really?! You think?

could you please explain what you did hex or image editing so i could do it to my other styles