Comment reduce the size of the titlebar and window border padding on Windows 8, 10 or 11?

[ForumBot]

Je pense the size of the titlebars and the titlebar text are too large in Windows 8/8.1 and Windows 10.

Also, the window border padding cannot be adjusted like it could in Vista and Windows 7, as the dialogue box to do this has been removed.

Is there anything I can do to make them smaller?

[ForumBot]

Je pense Microsoft must have made the titlebars larger to make them more easily draggable when using a touch interface, but they just use unnecessary vertical space on a normal desktop or laptop computer, especially if it has a low resolution screen. J'ai aussi think it looks nicer when it is reduced in size a little.

The following registry .reg file will make the titlebar thinner, the titlebar text smaller, scroll bars thinner and the border padding as thin as possible.

This also works on Windows 10 and 11, but it does not affect WindowsRT/Metro/Modern/UWP/Whatever apps.

```
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\WindowMetrics]
"CaptionHeight"="-285"
"CaptionWidth"="-285"
"CaptionFont"=hex:f4,ff,ff,ff,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,90,01,00,00,\
00,00,00,01,00,00,05,00,53,00,65,00,67,00,6f,00,65,00,20,00,55,00,49,00,00,\
00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,\
00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00
"ScrollWidth"="-240"
"ScrollHeight"="-240"
"PaddedBorderWidth"="0"

```

Remember to export the `WindowMetrics` key before you start modifying it, just in case vous devez revert to the defaults after having messed something up.

Vous devez log out and back in again to see the changes.

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