You can't. If you use Themes, then the colors will always adapt to Windows settings...which, BTW, is what Windows UI Guidelines say should happen.

>Hi;
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>I am in the process of migrating a vfp7 app to vfp9, and am having difficulty getting the page backgound to do what I want it to.
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>If I have "windows and buttons" in the appearance tab of display properties set to "windows classic style", all is well. However, if this is set to "Windows XP style, The pages default to whatever windows has set, no matter how I set the colorsource property.
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>Does anyone know how I can get control of my pageframe backcolor in both situations?
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>Thanks
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>Russ