Getting rid of gradients in Windows XP theme

"Mike Starr" wrote:

I'm a technical writer and do screen captures many times each day for
documentation.

I want to customize the appearance to get rid of the gradients so that when
I do screen captures the title bar and other screen elements are all solid
colors. They print out much nicer that way. I know I can do so by selecting
the Classic theme and then customizing it but apparently there's no way to do
so with the Windows XP theme. I've been resisting the Windows XP theme
because of this but it's time to adopt it to avoid confusing folks or having
people crab about the "old" look of my documents.

Any tools for creating a custom Windows XP theme that allows me to get rid
of the gradients?

Thanks

Mike

Try Neowin Forums...customizing XP. http://www.neowin.net/ There are a lot
of gui experts there. They might be able to help.

I'm no expert but the Classic style and WindowsXP themes(Luna, etc.) use
different methods to render the GUI. I know Windows themes are based on
bitmaps. That might be the problem.