[StyleXP] Can you modify visual styles?

[smokafatty]

After searching through 100's of crappy visual styles I finally found one thats perfect. Well almost perfect. There is one thing that really bothers me so I was wondering if you guys/gals had any idea if I can fix this, maybe with a skinning app or something.

Heres a screenshot, I would like to remove the blackness and get it like the old way where it shows all links at once instead just one at a time:
http://server5.uploadit.org/files/smokey99-dvd.jpg

[Mr Snatcher]

I am not sure if this is what your trying to do but, right click on the task bar-->properties and uncheck group similar items or go to display properties-->appearance--->item drop down and choose menu and select color. Yeah most of the themes sucks, but found a nice two toned dark blue and changed my folder icons to blue instead of yellow.

[smokafatty]

Cheers snatchy, that made it a little bit better.

:cheers: