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Old 10-21-2006   #2 (permalink)
Michael Nemtsev
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Re: Change the white window background

Hello Arnfinn,

AH> Hello!
AH>
AH> Does someone know if it possible to change the white background that
AH> most Vista programs seem to use? Classic appearance properties
AH> didn't change it.

it changes if your theme is classic, not the AERO

AH> The white background and dark task bar/border is a little hard on my
AH> eyes. I could turn down brightness/contrast on monitor but then I
AH> have to turn it up again in games and images. If I use digital
AH> brightness/contrast settings in games I loose dynamic range and it
AH> looks washed out. (I use opera User Mode feature to do this with web
AH> pages).

Probably the reason to block changing backgrounds and other visual color
in Systems dialogs (like explorer) is to give uses the most readable version

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