Changing color on taskbar and start menu

Yeah Im lazy and I suck and posted this on /b/ a while back.
Anyway I want to change the color on taskbar and start menu to a nice shade of midnight black, and preferably have decent that matches.
Now I got windowblinds, but it seems to be a bit bloated and I noticed some slowdown also, it seems to be stuck on windows classic mode, and cant revert back to windows xp mode.
Im sure I can fix it if I uninstall the damn thing, but I might not if its the best free windows skin changer out there.
So yeah, is there a better program? And whats a good skin/
But, should windowblinds be the best option, whats a good skin for that?

Thanks in advance.

You should buy some crayons to color windows. Why are you using Windows? Gross. Litestep is sexy if you are smart enough to Mod it yourself... and it is free!