Is there an easy way to make the window borders smaller again?
Especially in maximized mode, instead of a very thin line on the left side of there screen there's now a much wider/brighter (and thereby visually distracting) bar
This particular problem isn't - I had made the client area smaller by two pixels. I think it improves the look (atleast on when using XP/Vista themes) but I see what you mean about Windows Classic - this is probably because the tab colour is the same as the window colour so the margin looks a lot bigger. Still, if you use Windows Classic you can change line 5685 from:
client=CreatePanel(2,tooly,ClientWidth(window)-4,ClientHeight(window)-tooly-2,window,0)...to...
client=CreatePanel(0,tooly,ClientWidth(window),ClientHeight(window)-tooly,window,0)
As for the icons, Mark is right - this is because of the new manifest import in MaxGUI.Win32MaxGUIEx. Comment out the...
Import "xpmanifest.o"...line from the top of maxgui.mod\win32maxguiex.mod\win32maxguiex.bmx before you compile (not forgetting to Build Modules), and you should get your icons back (although you'll lose XP theming - but it won't make much difference for you as you are using Windows Classic anyway).