Ed Mullen wrote:

John Doe wrote:
Ed Mullen wrote:

Through a combination of tweaks and add-ons I've made W10 look pretty
much like W7.

Please provide screenshots...

Here ya go: http://edmullen.net/temp/shot.jpg

The Start menu is produced by the add-on Classic Start Menu/Classic Shell.

http://www.classicshell.net/

I'm particularly interested in how you got rid of the upper
right-hand window border weirdness where there is only the thinnest
line, if you can grab it, for resizing the window. That nonsense
started right after Windows XP.

I have no problem grabbing any corner of a window and resizing it.

If you can easily grab a single pixel on a modern high-resolution
monitor, more power to you.

Oh! If you mean a maximized window, yes.

I'm talking about normal "restored" Windows, not maximized windows.

Starting with Windows Vista, for some strange reason Microsoft removed
the border around the upper right-hand buttons even when the window is
not maximized.

Apart from destroying the Windows' look and feel... One of the
silliest things Microsoft has done I believe beginning with Windows
XP is to put a border around maximized windows that interferes with
effortless clicking on the scrollbar. Nowadays it's all mixed up.
Some programs include that border and some don't. Consistency is
lost.

Not seeing what you're describing.

It's been that way for 15 years...

When the window is maximized, there's no need for a border. No border
means you can easily click on the buttons in the upper right-hand side
or an empty area of the scrollbar. But Microsoft royally screwed up that
stuff by removing the upper right-hand border from non-maximized windows
too. That area is barely functional for resizing the window.

And before that, Microsoft put a border on a maximized window on the
right-hand side where the scrollbar is. Totally retarded. Although
apparently that practice has been somewhat rescinded since nowadays some
programs do not have a right-hand side border.

Here in X-News, both conditions exist with maximized windows... In this
editing window, I can slap the mouse pointer against the right-hand side
scrollbar and click to page-up or page-down. But in the message view
window, there is a sliver of a border that prevents the mouse from
scrolling the window (unless you back the mouse off of the side of the
window a pixel or two). That maximized window right-hand side border
nonsense was introduced in Windows XP.

One nice thing about W10 is that you can mouse wheel scroll a window
that does not have focus.

If you mean without activating the window... That's certainly worth a
try. If there is no other use for the scroll wheel when moving the
pointer over inactive windows, it can't hurt anything.