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Juke Joint Jezebel

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"minor Windows XP question (Display Proper..)" , posted Fri 30 May 17:51

when i right click the desktop >> then go to Properties >> down to the Appearance tab >> and to Color Scheme, only Default (blue), Olive Green, and Silver are available. any idea how i can customize these colors, or add more?

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AvalonX
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"Re(1):minor Windows XP question (Display Prop" , posted Fri 30 May 20:33

quote:
when i right click the desktop >> then go to Properties >> down to the Appearance tab >> and to Color Scheme, only Default (blue), Olive Green, and Silver are available. any idea how i can customize these colors, or add more?

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Holiday

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"Re(1):minor Windows XP question (Display Prop" , posted Fri 30 May 20:39

quote:
when i right click the desktop >> then go to Properties >> down to the Appearance tab >> and to Color Scheme, only Default (blue), Olive Green, and Silver are available. any idea how i can customize these colors, or add more?

I don't know how to customize your own colour scheme, but I found this:

ThemeXP

A more Xtreme Xample

Kaepora
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Regular Customer

"Re(1):minor Windows XP question (Display Prop" , posted Fri 30 May 22:12

Windows XP has no method of selecting anything other than those three color schemes for the XP visual scheme, and there is no way to edit those without using another program/utility/hack. I have never seen any other "XP theme" available that hasn't been tied to another program, such as the ones mentioned by others here.

You can mess around with a lot of the other menu colors, the icons, highlight colors, title bar font, and such by clicking the "Advanced" button (which just brings up the old way of doing it). However, you can't change the color of the Start Menu, Start Button, Title Bar, or window buttons (Minimize/Maximize/Close) since they are actually graphic images that are drawn over the boring window.

Well, you can, but it won't show up since it's always covered up by the XP theme images.

Juke Joint Jezebel

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"Re(2):minor Windows XP question (Display Prop" , posted Sat 31 May 00:29

yes! i will experiment now. thank you, everyone, for your time. you've all been very helpful

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