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My job is to translate geek-speak into clear and concise advice and give you easy-to-understand how-to's and instructions about your consumer technology products and services.īrowse my library with over 1,000 of the types of questions and answers we all have about our consumer technology. Hi! I'm Chris Gardner, Your Tech Coach giving you Practical Help for Your Digital Life® since 1996. Just stick with the themes you can get from the Personalize menu (linked to the Microsoft website) – there are hundreds of themes you can try out, and you can mix and match theme elements to create a custom theme you like.

We don’t recommend you mess with the registry lightly.Īnd we’d advise against using any 3rd party themes that require changing your Windows installation. Our friends at have some instructions (see method #2) for using the Registry Editor in Windows 8.1 to make more changes like the Advanced Appearance Settings window in Windows 7, but this is pretty complicated and potentially dangerous stuff – for advanced users who know their way around the Windows Registry and know things like the hex value for desired colors, etc. They don’t go all the way to black – for that you’d have to choose a theme that’s intended for visually-impaired users and then adjust it using the controls at the bottom of the Personalize window. Viola! Your window borders are all darker.

Click and hold the Brightness slider and drag it to the left.

This works exclusive of any theme you’ve applied (most of which have semi-transparent borders). However, if all you need to do is darken the border of windows, there is a simple control in the Control Panel’s Personalize window to darken the border of all windows on your desktop. That level of control was taken out of Windows 8.

Right-click the desktop, select Personalization.

It allows you to change a ton of options in the look and feel of most of the visual elements in the Windows 7 desktop. This was the Advanced Appearance Settings in the Control Panel. Too many choices in my opinion, so very few people do much with them.

Windows 7 did have a very detailed set of controls for managing the look of your desktop.

I’m not averse to doing that (it might even be fun) but I would like to know if there is any conventional way to get black or very dark window borders. I ran into a web site: …that had all sorts of interesting desktops, but required downloading some patches. I just find that light colors are distracting around videos, movies, etc. I’m talking about the desktop, of course, and not the metro interface. This is a rather minor issue, but I was trying to make the border (and all the various colors) on windows darker, but in Windows 8.1 I don’t see any color schemes that do that, and I can’t find any menu that gives the level of color control that came with earlier versions of Windows.