When Windows 8 color setting are set to a very dark color, such as black or navy blue, the title bar text and the minimize/maximize buttons are nearly invisible. This makes dark colors difficult to work with.
In Windows 7 there was an advanced color options, this is gone in 8. The registry keys associated with this seem to still be present, but they have no effect.
Is there a way to change this? Or a third party application that can do it? I don't want to use the ugly high contrast theme, I want to use the nice Win 8 theme with a dark color.
Best Answer
What I did was go to this website http://virtualcustoms.net/showthread.php/51048-Aero-8 and download the theme. Then go to this website http://uxstyle.com/ and install the download from there.
What to do:
Install UxStyle - enables third party themes. Be sure to get the Windows 8 download.
Install Aero 8 theme - makes your windows look like the following pic...
I hope this was useful for you as it did the trick for me.
Here is a screen to show that this is on Windows 8.1 worked on Windows 8 before I upgraded as well.