Windows Classic Style vs Windows XP style

I had been try for along time to change the color of my column headers in a datagridview.   I was using the following code and it never worked.  

 DataGridViewCellStyle style =
                      dataGridView1.ColumnHeadersDefaultCellStyle;
style.BackColor = Color.Red;
style.ForeColor = Color.White;          
dataGridView1.ColumnHeadersDefaultCellStyle = style;

I finally gave up on it but left the code in there.  Then I installed my program on someone elses computer and magically the column headers were a different color.  I finally figured out that the difference was that I had my display settings set for Windows XP style, while the other person had Windows Classic Style.

Is there a way to 1) change the column headers in XP Style, or 2) force Windows XP Style to be applied requardless of the user's display settings?


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