Does anyone know how to change the colour of the teal coloured bar running
across the top of all explorer windows with the customise / views etc
buttons on?
Also maybe the blue bar at the top in windows mail?
IMO it looks ok when in the default theme, but change to some other colours
& it looks odd.

there are ways to customize it, but that deals with replacing several
systemfiles.

Google after "shellstyle.dll" ( that is the file where the colours of the
bars are "stored" in ) and "uxtheme.dll" together with "vista" as keywords,
should bing up some instructions and resources,places to lookup.

It's not that easy to do !
be warned and make backups of the original files.
If it goes wrong you might have to reinstall the OS.

Good Luck

SJ / germany

"Richard" <noemail@thisaddress.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> Does anyone know how to change the colour of the teal coloured bar running
> across the top of all explorer windows with the customise / views etc
> buttons on?
> Also maybe the blue bar at the top in windows mail?
> IMO it looks ok when in the default theme, but change to some other
> colours & it looks odd.

Thanks for the reply.
Not sure why they made this so difficult.
Thanks.

"Sascha Jazbec" <barefoot_nrw@gmx.net> wrote in message
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> there are ways to customize it, but that deals with replacing several
> systemfiles.
>
> Google after "shellstyle.dll" ( that is the file where the colours of the
> bars are "stored" in ) and "uxtheme.dll" together with "vista" as
> keywords, should bing up some instructions and resources,places to lookup.
>
> It's not that easy to do !
> be warned and make backups of the original files.
> If it goes wrong you might have to reinstall the OS.
>
> Good Luck
>
> SJ / germany
>
> "Richard" <noemail@thisaddress.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
> news:LXbHh.31750$OK6.18651@newsfe4-win.ntli.net...
>> Does anyone know how to change the colour of the teal coloured bar
>> running across the top of all explorer windows with the customise / views
>> etc buttons on?
>> Also maybe the blue bar at the top in windows mail?
>> IMO it looks ok when in the default theme, but change to some other
>> colours & it looks odd.
>

"Sascha Jazbec" <barefoot_nrw@gmx.net> wrote in message
news:195C7991-82ED-4FFF-8138-125A2AE95835@microsoft.com...
> there are ways to customize it, but that deals with replacing several
> systemfiles.
>
> Google after "shellstyle.dll" ( that is the file where the colours of the
> bars are "stored" in ) and "uxtheme.dll" together with "vista" as
> keywords, should bing up some instructions and resources,places to lookup.
>
> It's not that easy to do !
> be warned and make backups of the original files.
> If it goes wrong you might have to reinstall the OS.


Oh, the OP was about skinning and themes. I thought he wanted to change the
actual buttons. I really hope TweakUI for Vista allows you to change the
Explorer toolbar.

ss.