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You can also use Resource Hacker to edit shell32.dll to remove the FolderBand. That's what I did, and it should work for any and all themes. But if you mess up, it's shell32, and Windows Explorer might fail to work.
But, here's how to remove the FolderBand. See this post, as well as this one. gumballguy, the author of the second post, stated that he tried that method on the release candidate and not on the RTM. Well, I'm here to tell you that his method works nicely on the RTM!
I also found this article from a German Wiki, and had to translate it through Google. The translation reveals two methods: the first, which kookster kindly provided here, and then the second ("Another method is:"), which involves editing shell32. In case you can't access the web page, though, the text that you're supposed to look for is
Code:<Element layoutpos="Top" layout="filllayout()" sheet="folderbandstyle" animation="rectanglev|s|fast"> <TemplateBackground id="atom(BackLayer)"/> <TemplateBackground id="atom(FolderBandShineLayer)"/> <FolderBandModule ModuleID="FolderBandModule"/> </Element> <element Layoutpos="Top" layout="filllayout()" sheet="folderbandstyle" animation="rectanglev|s|fast"> <TemplateBackground id="atom(BackLayer)"/> <Template Background id = atom (Folder Shine Band Layer) "/> <FolderBandModule ModuleID="FolderBandModule"/> </ element>
In summary, you delete any references to FolderBand in the UIFILEs 12, 27, 28, 32, and 46. I hope I've helped!