Windows 10: Cannot remove misleading 'active window' indicator line on taskbar, even setting the colour...

I've just upgraded to windows 10 from 7, and am having an issue which seems to have plagued a lot of people over the years, but for which I can't find any information about whether there's a fix now, and it's making it very difficult for me to work.On the taskbar, every single application has a glowing bar under the title, which is making it very difficult for me to differentiate which is the active window at a glance. This is a major problem when trying to do any work in multiple windows where you need to frequently jump back and forth, e.g. having 2 identically named folders where you are co

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Independent taskbar and window border colours?


One of the things I find most annoying about Windows 7, being a long-time XP user, is the lack of independent colour settings for the various GUI elements, for example, the taskbar, active window title bar and active window border colours are not separately settable. I see no reason whatsoever why this has to be so - XP offered far, far more flexibility in this respect.

As far as I can see, we still have the same situation with Windows 10. It appears to be impossible to have the taskbar a different colour to the active window title bar and border. It is even impossible to get the taskbar to be a solid colour - it is always transparent. There is not even a Windows 7-like opacity control. A massive step backwards in user personalisation control.

And why doe the window border have to be so thin? I can hardly see it at all.

 

Independent taskbar and window border colours?

Actually, there is in Windows 7 but you have to choose the windows classic theme to get that option (I think).

I am not sure on this, the only way to save your current theme, is to upgrade to windows 10 from windows 7 but I don't know if that really works or not. I have not tested it that much. I am going to try a registry setting to see if that will work. I am dual booting with windows 7.

 

Remove line under Windows 10 taskbar icons

That "underline" underneath taskbar icons was apparently added to indicate the application is open (vs. just pinned). I don't need this indicator.

Is there any way to remove the open application indicator that appears as a line underneath Windows 10 taskbar items?

I tried this custom theme, but it did not work. Other places where this has been asked:

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