How do I change the basic program background colour?

[Charles]

Any ideas on how to tweak the colour of the menu background of W7 applications?

To be specific - as I'm not sure of the correct name - I'm talking about the pale blue colour which appears behind "File Edit View History " on Firefox (and other programs), below the title header. It is used as the unselected tab background too.

I don't like it!

I want this colour to appear uniformly grey, as in XP, and without the light slim horizontal embellishment cutting through the words.

Thanks!

 

[Mark]

Why don't you just download a skin for it, there are skins called XP on Vista and it should be exactly what you are looking for.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/7119

 

[Charles]

Hmm, thanks, that will probably work.

Not sure why you can't alter this natively in W7. I wonder why you can't alter the system fonts easily too... or add and change program icons (I use Open Office and prefer a big green X to their Excel icon, and a a big blue W to their word processor icon).

Thanks for the tip though.