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My personal bugbear (on top of the whitespace) in Windows 10 is how you cannot enforce application borders anymore. Every second application wants to do its own thing, "for aesthetics".

I absolutely hate it. All the app windows just blend into one, it's just so hard to see them.

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I don't know what you mean by this comment. Can you elaborate? Are you talking about the window border?

I don't know about the setting, but when I have Visual Studio and Github Desktop on dark mode, they'll often overlap and it's not obvious which window I am clicking on if I'm trying to snag the title bar to move one.

Also, even basic Explorer windows often lose their borders when logging in via RDP, leading to white on white mayhem, but I've always assumed that's a bug.

Great example. Whatever happened to the fat colorful window borders? I miss Aero.

Yep exactly this. VSCode lets you set a "Title Bar Style" setting to "native", but that was a seriously hard find.

It would blend into Teams, where only a hideous "high contrast" mode would render borders. The list keeps going on and on.

I've used a registry "hack" (manually added a setting) to set the colour of inactive windows, this does improve things a bit when it works. I prefer eg a dark grey as inactive, and eg orange for active window.

I'm blocked from upgrading my work PC to Windows 11 unfortunately.

I upgraded to Windows 11 specifically for the rounded corners to help tell my windows apart.

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