Windows 10: Is it possible to change window border thickness?

I am not liking the very thin black window borders, when I open a lot of windows it can be hard to tell where one ends and another begins.
Is there any way that you can increase the thickness of the window outline?

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Is there a way to change the window border color?

Hi Demmy,

Due to the high volume of enquiries related to Windows 10, we could not respond to you on time.
Please refer to the information from this link and check if it helps.

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10/getstarted-a-new-look-for-settings

Hope this helps.

 

Is there a way to change the window border color?

This is driving me insane Screenshot, i cant find it anywhere in the personal settings and such but is there any way to change the color at least? and or make it transparent?

 

Hello Silverz, and welcome to Ten Forums.

If you like, you could do OPTION ONE below to be able to change the color of window borders and title bars. The side effect of it is wider borders. *Smile

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/7...a.html#option1

 

It worked great for the window borders, exactly what I needed.

There is one major problem however, it also seems to have changed the text color of open windows in the taskbar to black and this makes it almost impossible to read against the dark colored taskbar which windows are currently open.

here is what I mean...
(probably have to enlarge that to see)

Is there any easy way to edit the theme and simply turn the text back white?

 

Possibly, but I don't know which setting is for that yet. Changing your theme to another theme will undo this for you.

You might also see if this below may work. I haven't tested it in Windows 10 yet though.

Border Width of Windows - Change in Windows 8

 

Ok, I'll have to stick to the default for now, unless that windows 8 method works.

Thanks for the help!

 

You're welcome. Please let us know how it went.

 

No luck with the windows 8 method. The registry settings are there but seem to have no effect when altered.

 

Also with this, keep sending feedback to Windows team. Maybe they will get it through their thick skulls that like in previous versions Vista/7/8 border thickness and active/inactive colors were important for people to tell the difference between an active and inactive Window. By removing such customization options. Tell your friends to upscore your feedback too the more the better. Maybe they will realize their ignorance.

 

The missing option to change the border thickness is really annoying, especially on a high DPI screen.

I just left some feedback about this and I can only hope that a workaround will be found soon before MS fixes it. It seems like a typical case of improving the looks at the cost of usability. *Sad

 

Was that feedback left at answers.microsoft.com, or at connect.microsoft.com? Could you give us a link, so we can upvote / comment there? Thanks...

 

Hello Doug, and welcome to Ten Forums. *Smile

Here you go.

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/7...dows-10-a.html

 

As Brink wrote, I did indeed use the built-in feedback utility. If you search for the word thickness you'll find my post (starting with "On my WQXGA...").

 

So far it seems Microsoft is listening partially. In the TP build 10547 you have the ability to change taskbar color now without the use of 3rd party apps, and the personlization menu (classic) style via control panel has been restored as well as it was in Windows 7 and Windows 8.1, but you have to access it via control panel and not settings. Hopefully that will stay in the update release.

Border thickness would be nice if they added it back *Smile, it was actually quite aesthetically pleasing feature in Win 8.1 that 7 lacked.