Microsoft's growing endorsement of the Really Simple Syndication protocol (RSS) may leave the company with no choice but to refresh some of its desktop applications ahead of its current plans.

Following its August settlement of a long-standing patent dispute with Eolas, Microsoft is readying a refresh of its Internet Explorer (IE) browser that will remove an interim "Click to Activate" ...

The only thing I've found even remotely close is the undocumented DWM.DLL calls for setting the colorization parameters. This works without restarting Explorer, but only has an effect if colored title ...