sumdeus

Join Date 09/2004

Windows 10 Template?

Looking for a way to import Windows 10 default.

Is there a way to import the default (or better, current) Windows 10 theme into the SkinStudio to edit it? Alternatively, does anything in Object Desktop allow for just changing the colors of various components? Every skin I download seems to fail on Windows 10 with small taskbar icons (it keeps the original height of the taskbar leaving me with some really tall icons - but I have way too many to just use large icons as the taskbar would take up 2-3 pages scrolling.) I bought Object Desktop with the hopes of changing the OneNote background color without making all the other applications on my tablet look terrible, but I like the default Windows 10 theme aside from the colors (that is, with an all-dark theme in all my other applications switching to OneNote is blinding.) Windows Blinds seems to cover the OneNote background color nicely, but at the expense of just about everything else - so I'm really just hoping for a quick way to import the existing Windows 10 theme and build a skin off of that.

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Is there a way to import the default (or better, current) Windows 10 theme into the SkinStudio to edit it?

None, as far as I know.

Thank you,

Basj,

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Technically,no software company can alter MS files legally,what Windowblinds provided is alternative.

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Well, are there any which don't look horrible with small taskbar icons?

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Or even just a way to change the window background and foreground defaults without changing anything else?

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Well, are there any which don't look horrible with small taskbar icons?

I don't get it. Those theme that came with windowblinds look fine for me when I set it to use the "small taskbar icons". Maybe you have other problem. Could you take a screenshot and show us what "Arsenic" or "Corperate" look like on your system with "small taskbar icons".

Here my screen shots

Windows 10

Arsenic

Corporate

S_Dark

All look great to me.

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Basj,

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Here's Corporate, Echo, Ice and a modified version of Ice I started on to get around the scrunched start button. Corporate looks reasonable but I don't really like the start icon taking up that much space. Echo and Ice have scrunched start buttons. The small taskbar icons feature does help a lot though, I wasn't expecting to have to set that manually. Most of them (even with small icons set) actually page the taskbar icon (I have a lot, but I'm still 5-10 shy of where paging should happen.)

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DaveRI

Join Date 09/2003

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This one has a separate substyle with a smaller start button for small icons. It's a Win7 skin, probably could use a little minor tweaking for Win10 but it should look ok:

https://www.wincustomize.com/explore/windowblinds/8279/

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DaveRI

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And I should give you a little heads-up about tweaking the shipped skins in case you don't already know. You want to either keep the edited versions backed up or use Skinstudio to copy them to a new skin, the WindowBlinds updates tend to mess with them, especially if you do an uninstall before installing the newer version of WB.

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Thanks, I actually copied it to a new one via Skin Studio prior to starting modifications to it.

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Actually, if your problem just on the Start button. You can easily change that via Start10.

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Basj,

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My problem was the window background and default window foreground - but it seems I had to make a while new theme just to change them.

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My problem was the window background and default window foreground - but it seems I had to make a while new theme just to change them.

What do you mean by window background and windows foreground?

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The default background and foreground colors for windows - my goal was to change the OneNote page background and foreground colors when using Automatic coloring. Incidentally - Windows Blinds is also unable to target ONENOTE.exe individually for skinning, not sure why.

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Hello,

As far as I know Windowblinds is not for individual targeted apps. Its for system wide. Even you exclude one apps from the skinning. It will still carry the colors theme.

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Basj,

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Windows Blinds has a "Per Application" section which accepts an executable and a skin, but doesn't appear to do anything of use with it.

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Yes, that is correct. As I said, if you include onenote as one of the application "not to skin" it won't skin it. But System Color for the whole system is effected. Onenote colors will also changed as the system color has change. Example : IF the theme change windows background color from white to dark. Onenote background color will also change to dark even if you exclude Onenote from skinning. Actually Windowblinds can never skin all MS Office suite.

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Basj,

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