Increase or Decrease Windows Vista Aero Glass Windows Border Padding

System windows such as File Explorers, dialog boxes and Control Panel in Windows Vista has a large and huge border around it, which is shown as transparent in Windows Aero Glass interface. The transparency effect is nice user interface, but you may like the windows’ border to be larger, or smaller and slimmer. It’s possible to configure Windows Vista settings to make the transparent borders larger or smaller.

Default Vista Border
Default border size of windows in Windows Vista.

  1. Right-click the Desktop.
  2. On the pop-up right click context menu, select Personalize.
  3. Then, click on “Windows Color and Appearance”.
  4. Click on “Open Classic Appearance Properties” for more display and color options.
  5. Make sure the color scheme selected is Windows Aero, then click on the Advanced button.
  6. Select “Border Padding” in the Item drop-down box.
  7. Type a new size for the border to change (increase or decrease) the size of the border. Default border size is 4.
  8. Click OK twice to save the changes and exit.
  9. The new visual border size for Windows Aero will display immediately.

Smaller Padding Aero Border
Smaller border padding size of Windows Vista border


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6 Responses to “Increase or Decrease Windows Vista Aero Glass Windows Border Padding”

  1. Amrih
    November 2nd, 2009 12:30
    6

    terimakasih banyak saran yang telah diberikan….
    bener2 sangat membantu…

  2. Quinn
    February 11th, 2009 07:58
    5

    Thanks a lot!!!

  3. Flávia Nascimento
    September 4th, 2008 06:34
    4

    ñ entendi!

  4. Qualle
    March 2nd, 2007 19:44
    3

    Hmmm… I don´t think it looks better now ^^ But it does´n’t matter to me: I won’t be able to try this … Intel is refusing to build WDDM drivers, even if this would be possible… but I’m young, I can wait ^^

  5. Imtiyaz
    February 18th, 2007 14:11
    2

    Thanks for The Trick..

  6. gunit
    February 18th, 2007 10:17
    1

    good info, will try it now.

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