Perhaps you can determine what's changed in the registry by Windows 7 to make the background color change you want, then make that same change in your Windows 8 registry to achieve your goal.Ĭonfigure The Windows 7 'To Work' Options Configure The Windows 8 'To Work' Options I've been able to make the title bars and caption buttons smaller that way, for example. I've made some headway in that direction by simply exporting certain parts of the registry from my Windows 7 system and importing them into Windows 8. The Windows 8 desktop and give it enough style to be usable again.
Look to companies like Stardock to augment I don't know how long that'll keep, nor whether Microsoft has already taken to hard-codingīut that almost everything (and certainly apps) still seem to read these settings probably says someone will come out with a tool (if they haven't already) to allow you to update your various settings. As far as I can tell many/most of the desktop settings are still read from the registry locations that would be updated by a desktop configuration tool if one existed.
