It should be possible, but it isn't yet. I'm the leader of a new project to redo the Windows controls from scratch. It started out as a project on CP[^], but it will soon be moving off of CP, to its own site, and will be called the Fluid UI Toolkit. We are wanting to make a new set of controls from scratch, and avoid the limitations of the current Windows controls.
"Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God." - Jesus
"You must be the change you wish to see in the world." - Mahatma Gandhi