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Hm... I am not sure whether I understand what you mean.
I have already tried changing the WinXP Classic theme
to make it look like WinXP Standard. But you cannot change
it that much. You can avoid the gradient on the title bar, ok.
But you'll never get those blue frames around the windows
for example, or the red button with the X at the right end of the
title bar... The appearance is still too far away from XP Standard.
Perphaps there is a special XP theme which looks just like
XP, but without the gradient in the title bar?
>try making your two color options of your XP gradient both the same color.
>
>I am on XP at home and on 200 at work - where I am at right now - and that
>seems like it might work for you, especially if you make both colors thew
>standard XP blue, achieving a more standard XP visual.
>
>let me know what you get...
>
>
>On 2/13/06, Frank Dissinger <dissinger -dot- cgs -at- gmx -dot- de> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> This is my first posting to this list.
>>
>> I write user manuals with FrameMaker 6.0 under Windows XP
>> and produce them as PDF and, using WebWorks Publisher,
>> as MS HTML Help.
>>
>> For optimum quality and minimum file size, I have set WinXP
>> to "Classic Style" and the two colors for the title bar to the same
>> color, to avoid the creation of gradients.
>>
>> The downside of this is that screen captures don't look like
>> what most users see on their computer, which is usually set
>> to the standard WinXP theme.
>>
>> I tried changing the title bar colors in the standard WinXP theme,
>> but this does not have any effect. Does anybody know a solution
>> to this dilemma?
>>
>> Is there a WinXP theme which looks similar to the standard
>> theme, but does not have the gradient in the title bar?
>>
>> Thank you in advance for your replies.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Frank
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