new size for the border. (The default is 4.) Click OK, then OK again. The sizes of the borders will now change.
Windows Aero's transparent borders at their default size of 4      borders with the padding size increased to 15
Windows Aero's transparent borders at their default size of 4 (left) and the borders with the padding size increased to 15 (right).

There's more you can do to the borders as well. To change the border color, transparency and more, right-click the desktop and select Personalize > Window Color and Appearance.
Creating a shortcut for an elevated command prompt
Move the color intensity slider to change the amount of transparency in window borders. Click to see larger view.

1. Choose a color for your windows on the top of the screen, or custom-build a color by clicking Show color mixer and then moving the sliders that appear to mix your own color.

2. To change the transparency of window borders, move the Color intensity slider to the left to make them more translucent, and to the right to make them more opaque.

3. To turn off transparency, uncheck the box next to Enable transparency.

4. Protect your privacy by removing Windows Vista metadata

One of Vista's more useful features is also one of its more dangerous ones -- the use of metadata. Metadata is information about files that you don't normally see but that can help you search for them.

For example, music files typically contain the name of the composer, type of music and so on. And a photograph usually contains data on when the photo was taken, who took it, the