I want my Windows 7 colors to show a solid gray desktop and gray borders and title bars etc. That's easy enough to set, but I have some undesirable choices I'm faced with that I'd like to find a workaround for.
I use a Logitech mouse and their SetPoint software, and find it incredibly useful to set one of the buttons to Document Flip. This results in listing all open files (icon and filename) and lets you click on one to go to it. Well, at least it does if I set my Windows 7 "Theme" to Windows 7 Basic. With the "Aero" Windows 7 theme, however, it takes me to that useless 3D scrolling graphic.
Therefore, I would, for that purpose, want to stay with Windows 7 Basic.
However, on the other hand, when I go to Windows 7 Basic the options to set the border and title bar colors are extremely limited and the ones I can select result in title bars and borders that are one continuous shading that makes it very difficult to quickly see where one smaller window ends and the larger window behind it begins -- while the Aero choice for gray window colors results in a contrast to the window borders that makes this a nonissue. Plus, all borders turn gray including system windows like Control Panel and even the Taskbar (unlike with Windows Basic 7 which still shows a lot of borders in "blue").
Therefore, I would, for that purpose, want to stay with "Aero" Windows 7.
What I'd like to do is be able to use the Aero theme while disabling that 3D scrolling graphic of open windows so the Document Flip mouse button just gives me that simple list of open files, which is infinitely more efficient for my needs.
Is there a way I can get a "list" of open files when the Document Flip mouse button is pressed, while also getting the Aero color scheme?
Or, alternatively, is there a way I can use the Windows 7 Basic theme and get the window border colors to show some contrast, and for the chosen color to affect the whole range of windows?
Thanks!
EDIT: I discovered how to go into Group Policy editor and enable the switch that disables 3D Flip, but that doesn't achieve my goal because it causes the mouse button that's set to Document Flip to do nothing, rather than give me the list of open files that it does when set to the Windows 7 Basic theme.
Note, too, that I'm open to a third-party utility that gives me that list with a mouse button, if possible -- and maybe that will also solve the issue I have with setting a mouse button to Alt-Tab for toggling between two apps, which is great with my Logitech Mouse and SetPoint when it works but which is very buggy and drifts into intermittent or nonfunctional status way more often than I'd like.
I use a Logitech mouse and their SetPoint software, and find it incredibly useful to set one of the buttons to Document Flip. This results in listing all open files (icon and filename) and lets you click on one to go to it. Well, at least it does if I set my Windows 7 "Theme" to Windows 7 Basic. With the "Aero" Windows 7 theme, however, it takes me to that useless 3D scrolling graphic.
Therefore, I would, for that purpose, want to stay with Windows 7 Basic.
However, on the other hand, when I go to Windows 7 Basic the options to set the border and title bar colors are extremely limited and the ones I can select result in title bars and borders that are one continuous shading that makes it very difficult to quickly see where one smaller window ends and the larger window behind it begins -- while the Aero choice for gray window colors results in a contrast to the window borders that makes this a nonissue. Plus, all borders turn gray including system windows like Control Panel and even the Taskbar (unlike with Windows Basic 7 which still shows a lot of borders in "blue").
Therefore, I would, for that purpose, want to stay with "Aero" Windows 7.
What I'd like to do is be able to use the Aero theme while disabling that 3D scrolling graphic of open windows so the Document Flip mouse button just gives me that simple list of open files, which is infinitely more efficient for my needs.
Is there a way I can get a "list" of open files when the Document Flip mouse button is pressed, while also getting the Aero color scheme?
Or, alternatively, is there a way I can use the Windows 7 Basic theme and get the window border colors to show some contrast, and for the chosen color to affect the whole range of windows?
Thanks!
EDIT: I discovered how to go into Group Policy editor and enable the switch that disables 3D Flip, but that doesn't achieve my goal because it causes the mouse button that's set to Document Flip to do nothing, rather than give me the list of open files that it does when set to the Windows 7 Basic theme.
Note, too, that I'm open to a third-party utility that gives me that list with a mouse button, if possible -- and maybe that will also solve the issue I have with setting a mouse button to Alt-Tab for toggling between two apps, which is great with my Logitech Mouse and SetPoint when it works but which is very buggy and drifts into intermittent or nonfunctional status way more often than I'd like.
