can you remove the BRIGHT blue border around active windows?

[Barney T. Administrators]

Watch the swearing.... please!

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[Bawx]

Screenshot of said blue line?

[xirtam]

@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!

[Lenin91]

no problem, sorry for the swearing :$

[Plat Sajack]

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

[HellboundIRL]

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

[chavo]

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

Think of the children man!

[msing]

Screenshot.

[phate]

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

[Lenin91]

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

Then remove it.

[Witt3439]

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.

[Brody McKee]

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.

[xirtam]

^^ 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!

[Nose Nuggets]

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.

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.

[TheSynth]

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.

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.

[quick]

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.

Thanks! Much better!

[Lenin91]

lol what about my aero

[cchasem]

perfect. thanks for the msstyle!

[Ambroos]

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...

[micro]

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..

[Plat Sajack]

Then remove it.

Naw, really?! You think? :blink:

[pun]

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