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      06-24-2010
Does any one knows how to add borders to Windows 7 right click menu.//!

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      06-24-2010
Hi nighthunder and welcome

Within some WindowsBlinds applications / themes (padding I think its called) can be changed, but most WindowsBlindes are retail now, but you could view some (they also have some nice freeware) >

http://www.wincustomize.com/
 
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What do you mean borders - something more fancy than the box and the shading? Or are you saying you don't even see that? Because the shading is a registry setting.
 
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      06-24-2010
The shading can be reinserted (if you have disabled it?) through the Control Panel (icon view) - System - Advanced system settings (over on the left)
Click the "Advanced" tab and select "performance" - "Settings"
You will see the item "Show shadows under windows"
 
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What do you mean borders - something more fancy than the box and the shading? Or are you saying you don't even see that? Because the shading is a registry setting.
If I right click on the Program Icons that I have Pinned to the Taskbar, the menu that pops up is nicely framed. When I right click on the Desktop, Folders or anything else the menu is plain (no frame).
I was wondering if it was possible to add Frames to all of Windows 7 right click menu.
 
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Try doing what Davehc said above and when you get there choose "adjust for best appearance". Save the changes then logout & back in and then come back and let use know if it was corrected.

If it is not corrected please capture the screen shot and attach it with your message so we can see it w/o the edges.
 
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      06-25-2010
Here are the Screenshot examples.
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I think you would need a Theme / Customisation to give the right click pop up a frame something like the jump list as the jump list is not a standard menu.
 
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Oh the "pinned to taskbar" menus are running inside an Aero window - technically it is an Aero window you like, not the menus actual border. Shading is the only thing I know you could add to the actual menus, but it won't look like that; most menus are not displayed in a separate window, sorry, that's just a taskbar design feature.
 
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I think you would need a Theme / Customisation to give the right click pop up a frame something like the jump list as the jump list is not a standard menu.
I have seen some Theme Customization on http://browse.deviantart.com/?qh=&se...ndows+7+themes
Some of these themes do have all of the right click menu's in Windows 7 Framed.
Now to get these custom themes to work properly on Windows 7, you have to change a part of the Core Component of the Areo Theme Structure with an update supplied with the Theme. (This is a basic "Hack" and is not for the faint of Heart)
I was thinking there was an easier way to do it.
Thanks nighthunder.//

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