Classic Advanced Windows Color and Appearance Dialog Box

bamajon1974 said:

Another question....please see Clasurol's post above. I managed to extract a more recent version of desk.cpl from a windows 7 and windows xp iso compared to the version from NT beta. When I execute desk.cpl from either source, it launches the Win10 Display window (naturally). But when I rename to something different, like deskc.cpl as above, the old window color and appearance window does not open, in fact, nothing opens. Do you know how to fix this? I assume that something in the desk.cpl needs to be changed, like a CLSID to point to the old window rather than the Win10 version but this is beyond my knowledge. Can you help please? If you want, I can send the desk.cpl files I extracted. Will they be blocked?

Thanks, JW

The desk.cpl file has been hard coded to redirect to Settings > Display in Windows 10.

The old Window Color and Appearance window below from Windows 7 has been completely removed in Windows 10. I'm not aware of a way to restore it. Plus, many of the settings in it are no longer valid in Windows 10.

It is one tool that aims to make such things more convenient and safer, but doesn't necessarily cover all possibilities.

Brink said:

many of the settings in it are no longer valid in Windows 10.

All the "Item" options should still be valid even on W10. Fonts, yeah, that's pointless now as MS made it mandatory the system font practically impossible to change unless you use system font substitution. EDIT: Turns out Font is still able to be modified via this applet.

They are independently developed, so no necessary correlation except they both tweak the same system. The choice is yours.. whichever does what you want in the way you prefer.

You might also like to have a look at Winaero's reputable tweaker- a few items relate to appearance including text size, font, certain colour tweaks.. but many more as well.