Don't you think it's a shame that even the Windows own Taskbar is affected by compatibility issues and clipping if you set "Border Padding" to anything but 0?

How so? When I change the border padding it doesn't seem to affect the taskbar. Send me a private message with your repro steps. A picture would be helpful as well. Thanks!

Hi Vinnyp:

I'm having complete freezes (hangs) in Vista RC1 when AeroGlass (transparency) is enabled. Are there any guide or instructions that let me identify if the problem is with Vista, NVidia Drivers or hardware ?

thanks,

Rolando

Here's a picture of the taskbar misbehaving: http://img64.imageshack.us/my.php?image=taskbarlx0.png

For the whole picture, here are two desktop shots showing the current border padding setting - one with the default of 4 and another one with it reduced to 0:

http://img165.imageshack.us/my.php?image=taskbarborderdp8.png

http://img246.imageshack.us/my.php?image=taskbarborder0xy6.png

I hope you can understand better what I mean now.

The "classic" terminology is already pretty present in Windows. If this only applies to applications using the classic look and feel, why not use that terminology for the button and dialog as well? e.g. "Classic Settings"

Nei, thanks for catching that. We filed a bug on that issue.

nostgard,

Check out my first post on this: http://shellrevealed.com/blogs/shellblog/archive/2006/09/07/Setting-the-record-straight-on-appearance-terminology.aspx

Here's one that's been vexing me.  On an Aero system, you can personalize the "color" of the windows, changing away from the light blue to a number of other translucent colors.  However, on a system that doesn't have Aero, it appears we're stuck with the light blue.  I'd prefer to use the grey borders to match the taskbar and also the Office2007 dark grey theme, but I'm stuck in smurfville instead.  Am I missing something?

Just a clarification to the above, since I think I was misusing some terminology now that I've read a bit more.  I think I was using the term Aero instead of Glass.  When the fancy 3d accelerated transparent windows are enabled, you can change the color and other things about the window borders.  However, on a non-3d accelerated Aero, the Window Color and Appearance control panel just gives the old-school Appearance settings, with Effects and Advanced buttons as the only customization available.  It is misleading as the description says "Fine tune the color and style of your windows" but we can't change the color at all.

I have a problem. I am a photographer and the everpresent blue "cast" on all menus and things in vista aero glass is affecting my sense of color. Is there really no way of changeing it without reverting to win95-style? The new interface has got many good sides to it so I'd like to use it.

On XP there was the silver theme (I think it was called, I may be totally wrong). It fixed color problems for picture people.

John

Hi Vinny.  This totally makes my day that I get to correspond with an actual Microsoft program manager.   Is there any way to change the Windows Explorer background color from white to any other color in Aero.  I'd really like to keep using Aero, but I also can't live without dark background colors and light text colors.