Tip #4010 - Trimming the Vista Border
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Trimming
the Vista Border
Here's another one
for all you Windows Vista users out there!
Windows Vista, by
default, has huge borders around all their pages. This was probably done
to show off the new transparency, but if you prefer a more slimmed down,
minimal approach, you can easily configure this setting to make it a little
more reasonable for yourself.
Here's an image with
the normal window border you are probably used to seeing. More so, the
borders look even more ridiculously large if you aren't using the Aero
interface.
Now, here's a picture of the window border after some of the "padding"
has been removed. It's much less wasted space, don't you think?!
To make this change
on your Vista computer, you'll need to open the classic Appearance
Settings dialogue box. To get there, right click on your desktop
and choose Personalize. Then click on Window
Color and Appearance.
If you have the Aero
interface enabled, you’ll have to click on the choice of “Open
classic appearance properties for more color options" in
order to proceed.
Next, click the Advanced
button and then from the drop down menu, choose Border Padding.
The default will be set to 4, but you can change yours to whatever you'd
like. I changed mine down to 0 (zero) for the second screenshot you saw
above.
A setting of 1 or 2 would probably be more reasonable for your system.
You'll just have to test it out and see what you like the best. Once you
have a border that's a little more realistic for yourself, click OK
and you'll be all set. No more bulky borders in Vista. I'm lovin'
it!
~ Ramachandran Kumaraswami
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