Windows Colour and Appearance in Vista

Once one selects the Vista Option for the Colour and Appearance of Windows
in the Personalize Menu of Vista, I find that it is not possible to select
colours or Fonts of ones own choice for Menu Bar, Message Box, Application
Background or the Window. Vista permits me to select one of the 8 colours
offered or by creating a new colur with the help of the Mixer. But
basically, only the shades of that selected colour will be used for all
borders, boxes, windows or panes. This is highly monotonous. Besides Windows
XP allowed the User to use Blue range for bars and may be yellow for fonts
or Green for Menus and Red for fill-ins.
So why is Vista being so authoritative or paternalistic? Or is there a way
to use different colours even in Vista which I have not discovered?

P. Jayant

Hi,

Nope, you're not missing anything. That is a limitation of the Vista style.
To customize beyond that you would need to revert to a classic style.

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Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
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"p.jayant" <> wrote in message
news:7A06DDF0-EC17-4D76-9E90-...
> Once one selects the Vista Option for the Colour and Appearance of Windows
> in the Personalize Menu of Vista, I find that it is not possible to select
> colours or Fonts of ones own choice for Menu Bar, Message Box, Application
> Background or the Window. Vista permits me to select one of the 8 colours
> offered or by creating a new colur with the help of the Mixer. But
> basically, only the shades of that selected colour will be used for all
> borders, boxes, windows or panes. This is highly monotonous. Besides
> Windows XP allowed the User to use Blue range for bars and may be yellow
> for fonts or Green for Menus and Red for fill-ins.
> So why is Vista being so authoritative or paternalistic? Or is there a way
> to use different colours even in Vista which I have not discovered?
>
> P. Jayant
>
>

I would like to add to this question. Is there a way to change the shade of
the highlighting of selected items (such as when you select a file or email
in a list)? Sometimes I can barely tell that an item has been selected.
This also applies to other areas, such as selecting items in the start menu.


"p.jayant" <> wrote in message
news:7A06DDF0-EC17-4D76-9E90-...
> Once one selects the Vista Option for the Colour and Appearance of Windows
> in the Personalize Menu of Vista, I find that it is not possible to select
> colours or Fonts of ones own choice for Menu Bar, Message Box, Application
> Background or the Window. Vista permits me to select one of the 8 colours
> offered or by creating a new colur with the help of the Mixer. But
> basically, only the shades of that selected colour will be used for all
> borders, boxes, windows or panes. This is highly monotonous. Besides
> Windows XP allowed the User to use Blue range for bars and may be yellow
> for fonts or Green for Menus and Red for fill-ins.
> So why is Vista being so authoritative or paternalistic? Or is there a way
> to use different colours even in Vista which I have not discovered?
>
> P. Jayant
>
>