Windows 98-style progress bar

Question

I use Windows 7, so my progress bars all have that green look. I\'d like something a little more simplistic though, perhaps something resembling the Windows 98 progress bar.

Answer 1

I like Hans' answer but there's no need to override the control's class. You can remove the Win7 style from an individual control simply by calling SetWindowTheme using the control's handle. Here's an example:

using System;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;

namespace MyApplication
{
    public partial class Form1 : Form
    {
        [DllImport("uxtheme", ExactSpelling = true, CharSet = CharSet.Unicode)]
        public extern static Int32 SetWindowTheme(IntPtr hWnd,
                      String textSubAppName, String textSubIdList);

        public Form1()
        {
            InitializeComponent();

            // Remove Win7 formatting from the progress bar.
            SetWindowTheme(progressBar1.Handle, "", "");