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Windows 8 default theme - Fix for dark title bars.by ~maddada1

Customization / Skins & Themes / Windows 8 Utilities

For Windows 8 only

To install:
- Patch using UltraUXthemePatcher [link]
- Reboot
- Extract the Default theme folder into C:\windows\Resources\themes
- Right click on desktop and choose personalize
- Pick the first theme and change the color and wallpaper as you like.

This fix changes the active title bar's text to white and also changes the "maximize" and "minimize" buttons from black to white, so that if you want a dark title bar the text and icons don't disappear because of being the same color as the background.

This is the original theme with white text and black icons by "MrGRiM01": [link]

I downloaded that theme and changed the icons only.

The method to changing the icons is taken from "DavidM" here: [link]

EDIT:
To make the theme look like the picture do the following: after choosing it in personalization go to color then enable mixer and set hue and saturation to zero then play with intensity and brightness until the color fits your preference.

~~wow 0 0~~

~~fear 0 0~~

~~neutral 0 0~~

~bengillam May 13, 2013 New member

Anyone got any hints or tips to get the white text working? tried reinstalling both theme and the theme patcher and the registry trick nothing works

Running Win8 64bit on Asus laptop which AFAIK runs intel hd graphics 3000 if that plays into it?

Thanks

~maddada1 6 days ago

hey i am sorry i didn't answer you before, but i don't check this post that much.

I am not using windows 8 anymore so i can't help you sorry.. i think if you search on the internet for other patchers they might work better..

also make sure your account is an administrator account...

hmmm sorry can't think of anything else ... :/

~maddada1 6 days ago

~Sandy-Wichs-Boy Jan 27, 2013 :

YES, SUCCESS!!!!

After doing some more searching on this issue, I discovered the following version of the uxstyle patcher: [link]

It appears that the version I downloaded from your provided link did not work properly on my 64 bit system (even though the site claims it does). For whatever reason it was unable to patch some of the files during it's install process. The version of the app linked in my comment, however, is exclusivley for 64 bit systems and did the trick perfectly. Now I am running your theme with black borders and white text, and it looks great.

Just thought I'd share what I had to do to get it running on my 64 bit system and finally say thanks for your update of Grim's original theme.

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did you try this ???

~bengillam 1 hour ago New member

Hi Thanks, missed that comment bit it worked a treat

THanks again

~thibraga06 May 5, 2013 Student

Thanks

~xmusicismydrugx May 2, 2013

thanks : )

~Baegus Apr 29, 2013

Hey man, I edited your style so the windows thumbnail titles are also white.

[link]

~maddada1 6 days ago

Hey man when i open your link i just get this: [link]

I think you should just upload it to deviant art with your own account so everyone could download that version instead.

you can copy any part of my description if you want.

~Baegus 6 days ago

Wow, that's weird. Please make sure you're using the latest version of Firefox or Chrome.

It should work, I tried it on both. Maybe I'm going to upload it on my account later.

~bengillam Apr 23, 2013 New member

Awesome work, having a little problem though, tried this out on a VM before I installed windows 8 properly and worked fine and got the white titlebar text and icons, but having installed windows 8 and tried to apply (ather uxthemepatcher) it doesn't seem to make any difference so am a bit stumped.

Setup is Win8 64bit, running intel hd graphics 3000 if that has any relevance. Not sure if its 32/64bit thing maybe as I believe my virtual machine was 32bit.

Even tried ~CyborgNinja22 's fix but didnt seem to help either.

Any ideas?

Thanks

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