How to use Aerolite theme for Window borders and Title Bar color in Windows 10

[JamieKavanagh]

Windows 10 is designed to be all things to all devices. One of the concessions of this is to make it lighter to load and use so as to use less battery on portable devices. Those of us who use powerful PCs to run Windows don’t have such concerns but still have to use the flat UI. It doesn’t have to be that way. Here’s how to use Aerolite theme for Window borders and Title Bar color in Windows 10.

Enable the Aerolite theme for Windows 10
You have two options to enable the Aerolite theme for Windows 10, you can download a theme file already modified or modify a theme file yourself.

Use a modified theme file.
1. Download this file.
2. Extract it somewhere and then double click the .theme file.
3. Windows will install the file, your monitors may go blank and the theme will then appear.

Or modify the file yourself, which is my preferred option.

1. Open ‘C:\Windows\Resources\Themes’ in Explorer.
2. Copy Aero.theme to your desktop and rename it to ‘AeroLite.theme’.
3. Right click the file and edit with Notepad or Notepad++.
4. Under [Theme] change the text to read ‘Displayname=Aero Lite’.
5. Under [VisualStyles] change the text to read ‘Path=%ResourceDir%\Themes\Aero\AeroLite.msstyles’.
6. Save your changes and double click the file to apply it.

Check the image above to see what the changes should look like. As you have copied the file and renamed it, the original is still in place. Simply change the theme back and delete the AeroLite.theme file if you decide you don’t like it.

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