Ugly search bar in Explorer (Windows 7)

Aubrey New Member Posts: 22 OS: Windows 10 LTSC 2019 Theme: Windows 10 Default CPU: Intel Core i5-9300H RAM: 8GB GPU: Intel UHD Graphics 630 / NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650	Ugly search bar in Explorer (Windows 7) Apr 30, 2021 10:15:45 GMT -8 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Aubrey on Apr 30, 2021 10:15:45 GMT -8 Hi! I use the classic theme on WIndows 7 and I noticed that the search bar looks really ugly with my custom colors. Is there any way to fix this?

TechSalt Regular Member that one guy who doesn't know what he's doing and somehow restores a feature from xp x64 Posts: 383 OS: Windows 10 LTSB 2016 Enterprise / Devuan 4 Chimaera Theme: Classic Theme, using custom userinit batch file / Ice2K.sys CPU: Intel CORE i3 RAM: 4 GB GPU: Intel(R) UHD Graphics 620	Ugly search bar in Explorer (Windows 7) Apr 30, 2021 10:40:36 GMT -8 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by TechSalt on Apr 30, 2021 10:40:36 GMT -8 Maybe by modifying explorerframe.dll? Not sure.
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Ugly search bar in Explorer (Windows 7) Apr 30, 2021 11:28:20 GMT -8

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Apr 30, 2021 10:15:45 GMT -8 Aubrey said:

Hi! I use the classic theme on WIndows 7 and I noticed that the search bar looks really ugly with my custom colors.

Is there any way to fix this?

I'm not sure what do you exactly mean by ugly, the buttons or the style itself. In my opinion, it doesn't look ugly.

Apr 30, 2021 10:40:36 GMT -8 TechSalt said:

Maybe by modifying explorerframe.dll? Not sure.

Yes, the windows classic style navigation buttons are stored in explorerframe.dll.

Aubrey New Member Posts: 22 OS: Windows 10 LTSC 2019 Theme: Windows 10 Default CPU: Intel Core i5-9300H RAM: 8GB GPU: Intel UHD Graphics 630 / NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650	Ugly search bar in Explorer (Windows 7) Apr 30, 2021 12:17:53 GMT -8 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Aubrey on Apr 30, 2021 12:17:53 GMT -8 i mean the white background of the search box...

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Ugly search bar in Explorer (Windows 7)

Post by Aubrey on Apr 30, 2021 10:15:45 GMT -8

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Post by Aubrey on Apr 30, 2021 12:17:53 GMT -8

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