That's not what I meant, but thanks anyway Voidhawk
Those things were done with nano-seconds of the first log in. Unfortunately you can't change the look of the buttons, nor can you change the default icons & buttons back to Win9.x.
WinXP classic style still uses XP icons though. Compare the clarity of those to Win3.1 or Win9.x.
It's most of the icons that I wish to revert to the Win9.x ones, and the button look that I want to force into the pre-Office 97 style of widget. They're much, much clearer.
Since Office 97, M$ have moved all their products into using a 'flat' type of button ie there isn't a visible button boundary that defines its locus - you have to move the mouse to the button then must wait while the system responds & you recognise the response before taking action. The old Win95/Office 95 look had buttons that looked like raised buttons. You didn't have to move the cursor over them to identify the button's hotspot. It was just there.