Windows 10: Can't Change Custom Color

If you have never installed any programs that added shell extensions, and MS ones are hidden, I suppose so... never been in that situation.

 

Okay.
Here are the 32bit shell extensions.
Not much there to look at.

 

What do you see here?



- i.e. do you have any installed programs?

 

Sure.

 

Ok, it's possible you haven't installed programs that have added shell extensions as seen by Shellexview (there are more off your list, but not many).

Whilst you could compare processes running between the two different users, you've already noted the same thing occurs in Safe Mode. However, even in Safe Mode sometimes there are odd things running - e.g. a driver- that you wouldn't expect.

Increasingly this looks like a possibly unfixable user profile corruption, unless you can identify a specific difference between the user accounts.

 

Perhaps process explorer, can give me an idea of what's running and then try to compare the two?

 

If you want you can enable local build in Administrator account to test if problem persist within Administrator user account.

Please open the Command Prompt as a administrator.

Within Command Prompt execute below command to enable build in Administrator account.

Code: Net User Administrator /Active:yes[/quote] You can now sign out of your user account and login to build in Administrator user account.

You can disable build in Administrator user account by executing below command.


Code: Net User Administrator /Active:no[/quote]

 

You can now sign out of your user account and login to build in Administrator user account.

You can disable build in Administrator user account by executing below command.


Code: Net User Administrator /Active:no[/quote] [/quote] I enabled the built in admin account and signed into it to test this issue.
The custom color picker works as it should, without any issues.

 

Your user account is corrupted you should create new user account. You will need to create a new profile, and then copy the files from the existing profile to the new one.


You must have at least three user accounts on the computer to complete these steps, including the new account you just created. You can use build in Administrator user account to copy your personal files from corrupted user account to new user account.


Log on to Administrator user account after creating new user account.



Open Control Panel --> Folder Options.



Click the View tab, and then click Show hidden files, folders, and drives.



Clear the Hide protected operating system files check box, click Yes to confirm, and then click OK.






Locate the C:\Users\Old_Username folder, where C is the drive that Windows is installed on, and Old Username is the name of the profile you want to copy files from.
Select all of the files and folders in this folder, except the following files:

Ntuser.dat

Ntuser.dat.log

Ntuser.ini



Click the Edit menu, and then click Copy.
If you don't see the Edit menu, press Alt.
Locate the C:\Users\New_Username folder, where C is the drive that Windows is installed on, and New Username is the name of the new user profile you created.
Click the Edit menu, and then click Paste.
If you don't see the Edit menu, press Alt.
Log off, and then log back on as the new user.
If you have email messages in an email program, you must import your email messages and addresses to the new user profile before you delete the old profile. If everything is working properly, you can delete the old profile.

 

Just wondering, in the account you're currently using, is UAC off?

 

Yes, I always have it off.

 

Thanks for this.
I copied your instructions, but I need to try and corrected/fixed this, before I start copying and pasting old to new.

 

I understand i also would like to help you correct the issue instead of creating new user account but i'm out of ideas maybe other members can help you resolve the issue but i must say it does look like there is no solution to your problem.

 

No, UAC has no effect. Sorry, no more ideas... if that's your only problem, consider living with it, else start using a new user profile.

And maybe someone else can suggest sthg..
As I said you can try comparing differences between the working profile and yours, but you may end up wasting more time.

 

Negative Nancy. *chuckle