djwayne you must of missed the fact that they dont have aero on their machines. You can only change the taskbar color that way if you have aero enabled. Otherwise you are stuck with third party programs to redo the taskbar. I have tried several programs and none seem to be compatible as of yet with windows 7. I am srry to tell you that at this time there is no way to change the taskbar color.
Thanks for the feedback. That disappoints me, but I also have another problem, I have an ATI Radeon x800 256MB graphics card but no AGP slot on my motherboard. Short of replacing the computer, does anyone know what could be done to use this card? I can buy a new motherboard, but what type would I have to use in a Dell 2400?
Thanks for this information, I thought all the Areo did was make some things transparent. I didn't know it also controlled color changes.
It'd be cheaper just to buy another video card if you have a PCI slot available.
I ran a few searches and couldn't find any threads about this, but my graphics hardware does not support Aero, while I'm a bit upset about that, I can deal with it, what I would like to do, though, is change the color of the taskbar and window frames that 7 uses when Aero is not supported. Any suggestions?
I'm also having issues with OpenGL applications, I believe my hardware is an Intel 82845G Graphics Controller ( I think ), anyone got any ideas for that, too?