Windows 10: Advanced Appearance Settings Dialog Box for Windows 10 - Build 21H1

A few years ago, since 2015 to 2020, I have requested many times at Microsoft in the Windows 10's Feedback Hub and forums that I wanted the Advanced Appearance Settings dialog box to make a permanent comeback to Windows 10. This extended feature was pulled and removed in Windows 8, 8.1 and was never added back again in Windows 10. Microsoft has completely ignored my requests. I have decided to write a thread about this advanced font and color personalization feature, which is crucial in Windows 10. Here is the Advanced Appearance Settings dialog box which I am discussing about:





Windows 10 - Build 21H1 will be released this year in sometime in May 2021. It is not time for Microsoft to add back this Advanced Appearance Settings feature back into Windows 10. It can be in the form of a dialog box or in the Settings App Panel in the Appearance and Themes page location. I do not care about the form of whether it will be a dialog box or a page on the Settings App, as long as Microsoft listens to me and adds back this color and font settings feature that we all want.

The Advanced Appearance Settings dialog box made its first appearance in Windows 95 and was last seen in Windows 7. This advanced color and font feature was an iconic Control Panel settings facility during that time and age. It is now time that Microsoft kindly adds back this color and font customization dialog box in the upcoming build release of Windows 10 - 21H1. We have been waiting for too long for this dialog box, so please spread the word in forums, live chats such as YouTube and keep on asking Microsoft to add back the "Advanced Appearance Settings" dialog box once it for all.

Windows 10's themes are kind of bland and boring without this advanced color and font customization options dialog box. Themes in Windows must be improved so that once this new appearance settings feature migrates back into Windows 10, users will be able to save all color and font changes made to their desktop once themes are saved and shared on other computers. We definitely require and need more color and font options for all sub-elements of Windows 10 such as pop up messages, active and inactive text and font colors in open Windows, Start Menu and other sub-features that requires color and font modification changes. For example, take a look at the border colors of open folders in Windows XP, for instance:





A thread of complaint was previously written out ages ago, so I decided to create a brand new post. The link to the old thread can be found below:

Classic Advanced Windows Color and Appearance Dialog Box - Windows 10 Forums (tenforums.com)

Please send your replies to this new thread titled "Advanced Appearance Settings Dialog Box for Windows 10 - Build 21H1", here on this forum thread.

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Advanced Appearance Settings Dialog Box for Windows 10 - Build 21H1

A few years ago, since 2015 to 2020, I have requested many times at Microsoft in the Windows 10's Feedback Hub and forums that I wanted the Advanced Appearance Settings dialog box to make a permanent comeback to Windows 10. This extended feature was pulled and removed in Windows 8, 8.1 and was never added back again in Windows 10. Microsoft has completely ignored my requests. I have decided to write a thread about this advanced font and color personalization feature, which is crucial in Windows 10. Here is the Advanced Appearance Settings dialog box which I am discussing about:





Windows 10 - Build 21H1 will be released this year in sometime in May 2021. It is not time for Microsoft to add back this Advanced Appearance Settings feature back into Windows 10. It can be in the form of a dialog box or in the Settings App Panel in the Appearance and Themes page location. I do not care about the form of whether it will be a dialog box or a page on the Settings App, as long as Microsoft listens to me and adds back this color and font settings feature that we all want.

The Advanced Appearance Settings dialog box made its first appearance in Windows 95 and was last seen in Windows 7. This advanced color and font feature was an iconic Control Panel settings facility during that time and age. It is now time that Microsoft kindly adds back this color and font customization dialog box in the upcoming build release of Windows 10 - 21H1. We have been waiting for too long for this dialog box, so please spread the word in forums, live chats such as YouTube and keep on asking Microsoft to add back the "Advanced Appearance Settings" dialog box once it for all.

Windows 10's themes are kind of bland and boring without this advanced color and font customization options dialog box. Themes in Windows must be improved so that once this new appearance settings feature migrates back into Windows 10, users will be able to save all color and font changes made to their desktop once themes are saved and shared on other computers. We definitely require and need more color and font options for all sub-elements of Windows 10 such as pop up messages, active and inactive text and font colors in open Windows, Start Menu and other sub-features that requires color and font modification changes. For example, take a look at the border colors of open folders in Windows XP, for instance:





A thread of complaint was previously written out ages ago, so I decided to create a brand new post. The link to the old thread can be found below:

Classic Advanced Windows Color and Appearance Dialog Box - Windows 10 Forums (tenforums.com)

Please send your replies to this new thread titled "Advanced Appearance Settings Dialog Box for Windows 10 - Build 21H1", here on this forum thread.

 

Classic Advanced Windows Color and Appearance Dialog Box

Has the classic advanced color and appearance dialog box permanently disappeared in Win10 now? Image is below.

The commands used to be
rundll32.exe shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL desk.cpl,,5
or
%windir%\System32\rundll32.exe shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL desk.cpl,Advanced,@Advanced

 

Advanced Appearance Settings - Missing in Windows 10

The debate of the missing "Advanced Appearance Settings" from Windows 10 was first debated by the community on the
February 24th 2015. This complaint led to an ongoing controversy of unfairness that Microsoft has reduced to customization abilities in the Personalization Settings. Users used the Advanced Appearance Settings dialog box to customize many colors
and font attributes for many sub-features and elements in Windows 95 all the way up to Windows 7. Unexpectedly, Microsoft decided to remove the Advanced Appearance Settings dialog box in Windows 8, 8.1, and it was never added back into Windows 10 after a massive
complaint outraged on the Microsoft Community. The original complaint was made by DolphinaShamrock in 2015 here: Windows 10: Advance appearance settings?

It has been five years since Windows 10 was first released and since all that time that passed by, Microsoft never added back the Advanced Appearance Settings dialog box that enables users to customize highlighting colors and fonts of desktop icons, Active
and Inactive title bar colors, application background and many more sub-features that were customizable in the past during the time between Windows 95 and Windows 7. This is a great loss of a very important feature that theme designers like me request. This
is the dialog box in question that I requested so many times:

Advanced Appearance Settings - Dialog Box:





During the last couple years, I have requested Microsoft of the Microsoft Community, Live Chat Agents and the Windows 10 Feedback Hub, and asked them to put back the Advanced Appearance Settings dialog box back into Windows 10. Yesterday, I even requested
that dialog box on the Microsoft Forum page. I am just spreading the word as much as possible so that I can get my voice heard.

For users that are not familiar with the Advanced Appearance Settings dialog box, here is the link to a tutorial that displayed information on how this dialog box does and how to use it. The link is on a Vista Forum here: Advanced Appearance

My name is and I am a Windows 10 themes designer that likes to create fully customized themes for Windows 10. Unfortunately, I am really missing the Advanced Appearance Settings dialog box for making advanced color and fonts
customization. The reason why this dialog box is named as "Advanced" is because it has many powerful advanced color and font customization abilities.

Without the Advanced Appearance Settings dialog box, theme designers would be in great trouble when creating fully customized themes because they would find out that many areas of the Windows 10's interface is no longer customizable due to the lack of the
Advanced Appearance Settings dialog box that is missing in Windows 10.

Even when making a registry tweak to customize the colors of title bars is still a problem because the customization does not get stored in the .deskthemepack file when saving or sharing the theme file on another computer. Theme files in Windows 10 (.deskthemepack)
now lacks the ability to save all color and font customization so users making fully customized themes in Windows 10 finds out that many customized settings do get left behind and not included in theme files when saving or sharing themes on other computers.
That is a big problem that Microsoft needs to fix when they add back the Advanced Appearance Settings dialog box into the next build of Windows 10. This coming April 2020, when the 20H1 build of Windows 10 is rolled out as a public release of a newer and better
Windows 10 update, theme designers like me hopes that Microsoft will finally agree with users request on the Advanced Appearance Settings dialog box that its going to be added back permanently in Windows 10 as an integrated feature.

This is an URGENT request that me and many other people are asking for Microsoft to add back to Windows 10. The (Advanced Appearance Settings) dialog box, played a major important role
in customizing Windows and creating themes in many previous Windows generations. I am not kidding here. Many people are begging to Microsoft to add back that missing feature in Windows 10.

Please add back the Advanced Appearance Settings dialog box so that all Windows 10 users can enjoy a much better experience when customizing Windows 10 and creating themes to share on other computers.

Thank you.