I have stopped short of replacing the theme, but have set up Aero Glass via a 3rd party tool. There are ways, though they involve installation of software to 'hook' things (basically, hacking) that you can bring back the ability to load desktop themes, and even to bring back Aero Glass to the Windows 8.1 desktop. There are clearly different forces driving it. On purpose, presumably to make us dislike the desktop and make it more likely we'll migrate to something else (such as use of Metro/Modern, possibly on a portable device).Īs much as you'd like to believe this is the same Microsoft that brought us Windows that 'was always so good!' it's not.
Microsoft took away our ability to customize your desktop to make it easier to use
