[RBlan]

From Windows 3.1 through XP I have been able to choose all the colors I must
look at while working in Word all day long. I like warm gray border elements
and maybe very low saturation blue-green title bars.

Now I have to look at that baby blue color scheme for the rest of my life
and think of baby puke as I write? Yes, color IS subjective, dontchaknow.

Really, the philosophy behind decreasing the scope of user choice and
imposing a single color scheme on everyone smacks of arrogance out of control
and beyond belief!

Yes, I turned off Aero and went back to Classic. (And I sort of liked Aero,
despite its low-visibility titles problem) Classic works for Notepad, IE,
etc. It makes no difference on others: Word will be blue, and so will
Windows Live Mail (a different blue -- go figure), and who knows what else.
No more blue screen of death, just life imprisonment, eh?

Or maybe, I'm just missing that magic control panel that allows you to make
things just the way you like them? I'm about ready to downgrade to XP, I
think. This is getting frustrating...