Tiny Windows Borders for Windows 8 RTM


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Tiny Windows Borders allows you to disable huge windows borders in Windows 8, or set any border size from 1 to 10px as you like. This is portable and free tool I have created in near past and now it got an update:

v2.5

Bug fixed: windows does not redraw itself properly

Live preview is removed to improve the speed

v2.0

Added border padding slider

Added live preview

v1.0

Initial release

Also minor ui changes... enjoy.

Now it works very smooth and without bugs :)

Download link

I did mine via the registry, as I personally don't trust third party apps from random websites. By default the borders are definitely on the large side, obviously to make it easier to resize windows with touch input. I also had to change the default scaling, as it detected my 30" monitor (2560x1600) as having a high DPI and set scaling to 125% (making everything comically large).

You can change the border size with 'PaddedBorderWidth' - the default value is -60 and if you change it to -30 you end up with considerably smaller borders. You can change it further if you want but I don't like the borders to be as small as those in the screenshot above.

What specific value are you changing?

Regedit, run as Admin :

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\WindowsMetrics

BorderWidth = 0

PaddedBorderWidth = -30

Restart Win8, go back to Desktop, open My Computer and voil?, same big borders...

I'm not sure why, but I feel like Win8 is laughing at me...

Copy and paste this into a plain old text file and then change at least the extension to .reg, I call mine Border_Padding_Fix.reg. Double-click the file and merge the contents with the Registry (this is Windows 8 only, of course).


Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\WindowMetrics]
"BorderWidth"="0"
"PaddedBorderWidth"="0"
[/CODE]

Anytime you adjust settings for appearance in Windows 8 like changing the theme or whatever, you'll more than likely need to redo that setting so, it's easier just having the Registry file patch in some easy to access folder (My Documents, etc) and a quick double-click on it and you're back to the thin borders.

Also, when you merge this you need to log out and back in - doesn't require a reboot, just log out of the current user account and back in, that's it.

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