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INSTALLATION, CONFIGURATION, AND CUSTOMIZATION
Figure 3.8. You can switch between Windows themes or third-party themes
if you have them installed.
Oddly, Microsoft has stashed several color schemes that were found in ear-
lier incarnations of Windows 9x. From the Display Properties dialog box, click
Appearance. You can switch the window and button styles between Windows
XP and Windows Classic; when you do this, the contents of the Color Scheme
list box change and you have access to several of the eye-blinding schemes
from Windows 9x (see Figure 3.9). The primary difference is that windows
and buttons have a 3-D appearance in XP while the Classic is strictly 2-D.
Even odder, if you choose the Windows XP style and click the Advanced
button, many of the settings you can change have no effect on the current
theme, such as Active Title Bar. Try changing the Active Title Bar to fade
from bright red to dark blue; the default XP theme won’t change.
(Interestingly, when you minimize or maximize a window, you will see the
modified title bar colors flash by; however, when the window comes to a rest
it displays the default colors.)
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