Vista - Vista Home Basic-- taskbar changed from black to GRAY (old windows

I have Window Vista Home Basic on new laptop and encountered that problem
with updated (files corrupting host manager could not be found etc etc). I
fixed that with the suggestions found here but my taskbar which is supposed
to be black/dark grayish is no longer that. The change happened before I
fixed the windows updating problem and I was hoping it would change back when
I updated everything but it has not.

Instead I have a light gray taskbar, pop up windows (like my computer etc)
are very similar to old windows version operating systems. I click the
taskbar properties and it shows what my taskbar should look like and what the
interface once was but it is staying the same old gray ):

what is going on? any suggestions on how to get back the taskbar that goes
with vista?

Right-click on your Desktop, select Personalize, Window Color and
Appearance, then select the Vista Basic theme, apply, OK.

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"yellowrabbit" <yellowrabbit@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I have Window Vista Home Basic on new laptop and encountered that problem
> with updated (files corrupting host manager could not be found etc etc). I
> fixed that with the suggestions found here but my taskbar which is
> supposed
> to be black/dark grayish is no longer that. The change happened before I
> fixed the windows updating problem and I was hoping it would change back
> when
> I updated everything but it has not.
>
> Instead I have a light gray taskbar, pop up windows (like my computer etc)
> are very similar to old windows version operating systems. I click the
> taskbar properties and it shows what my taskbar should look like and what
> the
> interface once was but it is staying the same old gray ):
>
> what is going on? any suggestions on how to get back the taskbar that goes
> with vista?