Windows XP Style Color Scheme overrides Advanced Appearance choice

[Guest]

When Windows and buttons are set to Windows XP Style, the Color Scheme
overrides custom choices in the Advanced Appearance selection, for example,
Acitve Title Bar and Inactive Title Bar. This is illustrated here:

http://flickr.com/photos/janine-white/25290817/

When Windows and buttons are set to Windows Classic Style, the color choices
work. As illustrated here:

http://flickr.com/photos/janine-white/25292966/

Is there any way around the Windows XP Style color scheme customization
issue? Or, is it an XP "feature"?

Janine White

 

[Guest]

The links above may not work if you are not signed into flickr. Direct links
are:

Windows XP Style
http://photos22.flickr.com/25290817_6a956277d4_o.jpg

Windows Classic Style
http://photos23.flickr.com/25292966_05429eda4f_o.jpg

 

[Anando [MS-MVP]]

Thats how it is supposed to work.

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[Guest]

Thanks for letting me know.

I don't get why we would have less options with a newer version, other than
Microsoft wanting to make or money on selling color schemes. Yet, I've only
found a couple of programs that are designed to change the Windows skin this
way, for example, WindowBlinds. Very disappointing.

 

[JFS]

Don't forget, you have to have those programs running on your system in
order to see the theme. I would like to get more options without having
some other program run in memory.

 

[Guest]

Explorer is an application. It is what I want to affect as much as any other
program.