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[Ice_Blue]

One of the things that bugged me about RTM is the loss of the depth effect given by the drop shadows on windows. It looks messy when there are a lot of overlapping windows, since it was more of an effort to discern the window edges.

I resorted to yzShadow, but since that is a win32 utility, it only worked for 32-bit programs.

With the RP theme, the drop shadows are back.
They are not as pronounced as on Win 7, which is what I like.

Now that this niggle is gone, I am enjoying Windows 8 more than ever.

My only remaining beef is that I cannot change the colour of the window title.
I like dark backgrounds and borders, but because of this, I have to lighten up the borders so that the window titles become readable.

I installed the RP in a VM and copied over the msstyles and .theme file.
Modified the .theme file to point to the msstyles file (renamed to aeroRP.msstyles), and was all set.

Good thing I remembered to do this, since I believe the RP expires soon.

[grayscale]

screenshot?

[Ice_Blue]

grayscale, on 12 November 2012 - 02:45, said:

screenshot?

I'm trying. My screen res is 1440x900, and Neowin keeps rejecting the image for some reason.
Trying to reduce size now...

[Ice_Blue]

Here it is:

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[Jose_49]

I would go back to the RP theme IF those back and forward buttons were smaller. I like the RTM one.

But yes, it looks beautiful

[Ice_Blue]

Jose_49, on 12 November 2012 - 03:05, said:

I would go back to the RP theme IF those back and forward buttons were smaller. I like the RTM one.

But yes, it looks beautiful

Thanks. Personally, I don't mind the size of the buttons.

[LAMj]

For anyone that want to change back, the RP theme has been up on deviantart for sometime now. No patch needed, just save it to your theme folder.

http://pasquiindustr...ows-8-330467841

[Ice_Blue]

LAMj, on 12 November 2012 - 03:26, said:

For anyone that want to change back, the RP theme has been up on deviantart for sometime now. No patch needed, just save it to your theme folder.

http://pasquiindustr...ows-8-330467841

This page says you need uxtheme patch.

[primexx]

what's that thing that looks like a clock behind the windows, that says "58" in yellow?

[Lirodon]

primexx, on 12 November 2012 - 06:12, said:

what's that thing that looks like a clock behind the windows, that says "58" in yellow?

Looks like a clock (given there's also a 58 on the taskbar)

[Marshall]

primexx, on 12 November 2012 - 06:12, said:

what's that thing that looks like a clock behind the windows, that says "58" in yellow?

It's likely a Rainmeter skin.

[Ice_Blue]

primexx, on 12 November 2012 - 06:12, said:

what's that thing that looks like a clock behind the windows, that says "58" in yellow?

That's Rainmeter. The clock is from the Elegance 2 skin. It's available on Deviant Art.

[+LightEco]

Ice_Blue, on 12 November 2012 - 03:34, said:

This page says you need uxtheme patch.

Just download that file, make a copy of your current aero theme file, edit in notepad to point to the AeroRP.msstyles and its works without a patch.

[+Chris123NT]

WTF, that msstyle doesn't work here, it's just loading the default RTM aero, and I have uxstyle installed so it's not that.

Edit: NVM, it needs to be in its own folder and it needs an associated MUI file as well.

[+Brando212]

Chris123NT, on 03 December 2012 - 03:41, said:

WTF, that msstyle doesn't work here, it's just loading the default RTM aero, and I have uxstyle installed so it's not that.

have you installed updates since applying the uxstyle patch? i found that a few updates a little while back broke the patch causing things to not work correctly when changing themes again

i found that uninstalling uxstyle and reinstalling it again fixed my problem just fine (don't just run the installer again as that won't work and will cause your computer to crash next time you restart)