Solved performance & and appearance

In XP on my desktop, I could go into Control Panel >> Display and under the Appearance and Advanced buttons, I could modify the way my screen looked with great ease.

On my laptop running Win 8, I can't find the route to do this.

Can anyone help me please?

Michael.

It really depends on what you want to change. You may look at Personalize by going to the Charms Bar > Settings > Change PC Settings as an example.

I think it's the way Windows 8 works, there is no longer a 'basic' or 'classic' appearance, there's always a theme applied.Therefore the way to customise the entire appearance would be to construct a theme to your requirements.It must be hard to do! Because I'm not aware of anyone having, for example, made a proper 'Classic' theme yet - just variants of the High Contrast themes with different colours.There are programs and registry settings for some of the windows elements, though.

appearance etc

well ... as i said, i want to change the window colour and the fonts etc. ...
unfortunately, change pc settings doesn't give me what i want.
the attached jpg file shows what i'm looking for.
i'm not particularly bothered about losing the 'basic' and classic' looks but would loke tp get access to the advanced window.
i fully appreciate that win8 is not xp but yesterday, i saw in instruction and a photo of the same as my attachments in a forum so there must be a way of making these changes.
trouble is, i forgot which forum but am still looking.
thanks so far.
michael.

appearance etc

after being away for a week or so, managed to find the page in eightforums again after a long search so my win8 appearance problem is pretty much sorted out.
the link is ... http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/6479-window-color-appearance-change-windows-8-a.html ... so my thanks to shawn for that.
my thanks as well to everyone else who offered their suggestions.
all very much appreciated.
michael.

Glad you found what you were looking for, Shawn's tutorials are plenty and good.