Unstriped Title Bars

[Rolly]

Many title bars in Vista appear to have stripes or bands
of different shades of colour, e.g.:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/technetmag/issues/2006/11/Defender/fig02.gif

You can see diagonal blueish bands of colour above.

Is it possible to have only a single shade of colour of
whatever transparency? I can recall some screenshots of
pre-release builds of Vista that had precisely that.

Thanks,

R.

 

[Richard Urban]

You are seeing the "glass" effect. You see the desktop through the title
bar. Many consider it a likeable feature. Other than that, it is of no real
use and is to be considered "eye candy".

You can turn this off by using the Windows "Classic" theme.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

 

[Rolly]

You are seeing the "glass" effect. You see the desktop through the
title bar. Many consider it a likeable feature. Other than that, it is
of no real use and is to be considered "eye candy".

Yes, I realize it's a glass effect. But I have seen screenshots
of earlier builds of Vista with quite a different glass effect.
I'd like a nice looking glass effect like that one, if possible.

E.g., like this:

http://media.arstechnica.com/images/misc/vista/beta2/ie7vista.jpg

Notice the title bar doesn't have the diagonal banding. Or, at
least, it's so subtle as to be unnoticeable.

Many thanks,

R.