As you know, the new UX Theme engine for Windows 8 does not include the old stuff, so the Classic View style from Windows 2000 is no longer available. You can change the colors, but that's about it. How to Get Classic-Style Themes Back on Windows 8
The new "fat window borders" engine has a bug when you move the taskbar to the top of the screen instead of the bottom.
If you set the taskbar to Hide, you will find there is now a BLANK space on the bottom of the screen for windowed, maximized apps. This bug does not occur with the taskbar hidden at the bottom of the screen: if you move the mouse to the top and click, it does not Deselect the current window.
However, with the taskbar on the top and hidden, moving the mouse to the bottom of the screen and clicking Deselects the current window! This is especially annoying if you are trying to use a maximized window and it deselects when you misclick on the bottom of the screen.
My guess: With the new themes engine, hiding the Taskbar at the top leaves 1 pixel of taskbar (plus border). On the bottom of the screen it's got an extra pixel space that drills down to the background and deselects the window.
When the taskbar is hidden on the bottom, it hides differently, and there is no space above the maximized window. It looks different on the bottom too, like they hot-fixed it.
The new "fat window borders" engine has a bug when you move the taskbar to the top of the screen instead of the bottom.
If you set the taskbar to Hide, you will find there is now a BLANK space on the bottom of the screen for windowed, maximized apps. This bug does not occur with the taskbar hidden at the bottom of the screen: if you move the mouse to the top and click, it does not Deselect the current window.
However, with the taskbar on the top and hidden, moving the mouse to the bottom of the screen and clicking Deselects the current window! This is especially annoying if you are trying to use a maximized window and it deselects when you misclick on the bottom of the screen.
My guess: With the new themes engine, hiding the Taskbar at the top leaves 1 pixel of taskbar (plus border). On the bottom of the screen it's got an extra pixel space that drills down to the background and deselects the window.
When the taskbar is hidden on the bottom, it hides differently, and there is no space above the maximized window. It looks different on the bottom too, like they hot-fixed it.
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