win8 Get thin borders in Win 8

[Ice_Blue]

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\WindowMetrics]

"BorderWidth"="-1"

"PaddedBorderWidth"="-1"

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The defaults are -15 and -60 respectively.

Mines are set to -1 for each, giving me a very thin border, which I like very much.

[Guest]

Nice tweak, shame it can't go any thinner though.

[grayscale]

Great, that thinness is good enough for me :) Thanks

[Active.]

Awesome! I assume this would work in the final version as well?

[Ice_Blue]

Awesome! I assume this would work in the final version as well?

No reason why it shouldn't.

[syncore]

Yes, I'm using this in the RTM and it looks MUCH better with thin borders

[George P Global Moderator]

Just goes to show that we should be able to tweak much of the UI through the registry etc, maybe toss in a hacked msstyle file and take it to the next level. Someone should make a tweakUI tool for Win8 now.

Nice tweak, shame it can't go any thinner though.

What if you set it to 0? Or does it take something like -0.5?

[Setnom]

Excellent tip!!

[syncore]

You can also change the font system-wide with a clever registry hack ( as seen in my SS here ) -- unfortunately, it seems as if visually modifying Win8 is going to take a lot more work than any previous Win OS

Just goes to show that we should be able to tweak much of the UI through the registry etc, maybe toss in a hacked msstyle file and take it to the next level. Someone should make a tweakUI tool for Win8 now.

What if you set it to 0? Or does it take something like -0.5?

[Brandon H Supervisor]

unfortunately, it seems as if visually modifying Win8 is going to take a lot more work than any previous Win OS

no more than XP imo

[Panda X]

Annoyingly back in the consumer preview you could remove them entirely.