Title+Bar+Two‐Tone

Title Bar Two‐Tone

Would you like to tart up your title bars with a two tone colouring?

Well it’s another of those well hidden facilities, more so in XP and unless you know where to look for it the chances are you’ll be stuck with boring single colour title‐bars forever…

Go to :‐

Desktop right‐click onto an empty area, select Properties then the Appearance tab.

Click the Advanced button

On the Item drop‐down menu select ‘Active Title bar’

Alternatively just double‐click on the example title bar in the window.

Colour 1 and Colour 2 boxes will now be displayed.

Click on the drop‐down arrow next to each ‘Colour’ box

Displayed is a selection of basic colours

However, if you click the Other button you will get a full colour palette dialogue box.

Make your selection for Colour 1 and click ‘Add to custom colour’, then OK

Repeat for Colour 2,

Click Apply and your title bars will never look the same again.

One last tip, if you use a light colour on the left side of the title bar it can be difficult to read the text but you can change this as well in the Fonts options