Windows 10: Having Win7 'Window Color and Appearance' On Win10?

The old Win7 'Window Color and Appearance' has been removed from Windows 8/10.






I have a Win7 disk image, so I have access to the files from it....

I would like to put some of the Win7 64-bit files into a folder on my Win10 64-bit computer, and then run whatever command I need to; so I have this functionality back again.

Does anyone know if there is a way of making this work?

:)

 

Window color and appearance

You can still reach the old personalisation settings by searching for 'Control Panel' then clicking it, but as of now you can only change the theme. This does not include the font colors (only windows, background, and sounds), as they only apply to desktop
(old) apps. The equivalent setting for the modern apps is probably still in development, or will be integrated into the new color chooser (or both).

 

Window color and appearance

When you right click Desktop, then click Personalize, it opens a window which has a preview pane on the right. The upper right has a box which says 'Sample Text'. It used to be 'Window Text' in earlier versions. How do you change the font color of this
text in Windows 10? Is there a hidden shortcut to get the old Window Color and Appearance menu in Control Panel?

 

Very unlikely. The way window frames are specified has (apparently) changed, so you could expect not all features in that to be compatible or functional.

There are some freeware utilities that tweak a very few things (see Winaero's tweak tool e.g.).

I use a simple registry hack supported by sthg a bit more clever to maintain coloured backgrounds on resume. (explorer needs Qttabbar to colour its background).

Aeroglass + colouring inactive titlebars gives some transparency and optionally thin borders around universal apps.