Different coloring capabilities with different Win10 versions?

OK, so we all know Win10's basic look is rather heavily white, and I'm finding that hard to work with. I've learned that, on my own PC, I can to go Settings> Personalization> Colors and add color to window title bars, which helps quite a lot. But that feature is much more limited on my office PC, enabling only very subtle color accents and leaving title bars white.

These 2 PCs use Win10 Enterprise and Professional, respectively. I noticed the version/build designations are also different: 10.0.240 and 10.0.586, with the higher enabling title bar colors.

Do we just have an earlier/inferior version at the office? I understood Win10 was structured for continuous updates so that we'd all have more or less identical features. Is this not precisely true across editions (Enterprise vs Pro)?

I thirst for title bar coloring ability & would like to know what I'm talking about when I approach our not-always-receptive IT guy.

Thanks for any clues.

Mark

The ability to have coloured title bars was introduced with the 10.0.586 version so that will explain why you are seeing the difference. Hopefully your enterprise edition at work will catch up with the update to the latest version but if it was only recently installed then there is a 30 day wait before the upgrade occurs.

Have a look through the tutorials on customisation to see what is possible.

Thanks, I did hear about these but I've had bad luck in past OS's with Aero because my screen elements (title bar fonts, message boxes, etc.) need to be large (my eyesight's poor) and I understood that Aero severely limits these sizes, and that it's a lot of work to restore them. Is that still the case? Also, I can't cope with transparency and Aero forces that, correct?

philc43 said:

The ability to have coloured title bars was introduced with the 10.0.586 version so that will explain why you are seeing the difference. Hopefully your enterprise edition at work will catch up with the update to the latest version but if it was only recently installed then there is a 30 day wait before the upgrade occurs.

Ah thanks Phil, that's very useful info and I'd never seen it mentioned.

Oooh I like! Will definitely give these a look. Especially heartening to hear about added borders -- the hairline defaults make me sad. Thank you!

Dalchina, thank you so VERY much for these tips. I can finally see what I need to, drag borders without squinting, and as an unexpected bonus, edit the rather peculiar set of default colors with the mixer. (Heaven only knows why MS decided to hide that lifesaver!)