windows XP Grey look??

You know, when you shutdown windows (Actually if you leave the window saying Reboot, Shutdown, etc on) you get the black and white-based background..

Is there anyway to kinda make this permanent as I really like that look.. :)

there is a silver theme setting in xp which makes your ugly blue taskbar silver etc... but i dont think that is exactly what you are after... you could probably make it yourself using a custom theme

Considering windows XP does it on the fly when the shutdown window is in focus... why should I create a theme? :)

There -must- be a way somehow... just don't know it yet :rolleyes:

if your monitor has a color adjust turn it all the way down

Do you just want the desktop pic to be grey or everything you use?

If everything you use then do like Skitchen said.

If you just want the desktop image to be grey then open it in Photoshop and goto Adjust -> Hue/Saturation then turn it all the way down.

Besides the lovely jokes here, which are quite original I might add.. :p

In other words, I dont want a grey background.. I want 'everything' grey..

Trillian 2.0 Pro also has this 'feature' of turning off colors on certain windows.. (I'll add a screenshot later this afternoon so that people might have an idea of what I'm after).

Add the screenshot, because I have no idea what you're after... other than a black-and-white monitor.

perhaps a classic Green on black background monitor would suit you best?

Poke yourself in the eyes.

Repeat this till you have the desired result.

See attached pic.

And no, I dont wish to poke my eyes or get a Green/BW screen.... :P

(When am I getting serious replies to this post?)

It makes everything grayscale except the shutdown/restart dialog.... Is that really what you want???? No colour, except for active window??? Or no colour except for the shutdown dialog.

You realise that as the shutdown dialog is modal, for all you know, windows could take a screen shot before it shows the dialog, converts the image to grayscale and overlays a maximized borderless form (with the back-ground image set to the greyscale image) ontop of all your windows before displaying the dialog!! This would be easy to do, but it wouldn't be what you want. If you just want no colour, then turning the colour depth down is not a silly suggestion.

I want only the current active window to be in full color, anything inactive or just not in focus should be turned grey,

And as far as I know it doesn't take a screenshot and fade that to grey, as you can kinda 'cheat' and still move stuff in the background - so it aint a screenshot.

Quote:

---

Originally posted by Devion
I want only the current active window to be in full color, anything inactive or just not in focus should be turned grey,

And as far as I know it doesn't take a screenshot and fade that to grey, as you can kinda 'cheat' and still move stuff in the background - so it aint a screenshot.

---

How do you move stuff around? I'm unable to do this on my XP Pro box. I can't even move the dialog anywhere when everything has gone grey.

I wouldn't say what you are trying to do is impossible, but just very very difficult. You will have to enumerate all visible windows, and intecept the windows messages which do the drawing, and then draw each pixel yourself using some greyscale converting matrix. It would be very CPU intensive, and would be a nightmare to debug.

Yah that's exactly what I thought. Windows takes a screen cap and displays it and turns the image to grey. It doesn't actualy change the forms and icons and desktop picture to grey.

And no you can't "cheat" and move the windows behind the Modal form.