I am running Windows 7 with Aero enabled and everything about my theme unchanged. I have tried various ways of adjusting colors and translucency, but I can't seem to find a way to make the active window's titlebar more distinctive (compared with the inactive windows).
I don't mind registry or manual theme hacking (if someone can explain what I need to do), but I can't go downloading arbitrary software on to my machine.
Here is a screenshot of two windows, the one on the left being the active window:
Ideas?
Best Answer
Title bar colors simply don't exist in Aero. Nor are they an indicator for the focus state of an application.
In Aero, there is no distinct title bar. There is just the window chrome, which is the background for the whole window. Now, there is only a single color to be defined that is applied to the whole window.
Focus state of an application is communicated through drop shadows on the window and the colorization of the chrome elements.
If you think the effect is too subtle, you can only adjust it through this slider:
If that's all still too boring for you, maybe something like Aura is for you.