Windows 10: Change Accent Color of Mail and Calendar app in Windows 10

How to: Change Accent Color of Mail and Calendar app in Windows 10

How to Change Accent Color of Mail and Calendar app in Windows 10


The Mail and Calendar apps included with Windows 10 help you stay up to date on your email, manage your schedule and stay in touch with people you care about the most. Designed for both work and home, these apps help you communicate quickly and focus on whats important across all your accounts. Supports Office 365, Exchange, Outlook.com, Gmail, Yahoo! and other popular accounts.

The left pane in the Mail and Calendar app will not show the selected color as a solid color background unless you turn off Fill entire window with your background picture.

The left pane in the Mail and Calendar app will not show the selected color as its solid color background if you use a dark theme. Instead, it will use the color black.

This tutorial will show you how to change the accent color used in the Mail app and Calendar for your account in Windows 10.



Here's How:

1. Open the Mail or Calendar app.

2. Click/tap on the Settings button at the bottom of the left pane. (see screenshot below)



3. Click/tap on Personalization in the Settings flyout. (see screenshot below)



4. Select the color you want to use. (see screenshot below)

*note If you select Use my Windows accent color, the Mail and Calendar app will use your indicated Windows accent color instead.




That's it,
Shawn


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Mail app will not open on 10041.


Hello Adam,

This is the suggested solution below if you haven't already tried it.

In this Windows 10 build 10041, the Mail, Calendar, and People apps may be broken due to a licensing issue with the Store Beta. To get these apps working again, you need to follow these steps:

• Open powershell as administrator
• Run the command Get-appxprovisionedpackage –online | where-object {$_.packagename –like “*windowscommunicationsapps*”} | remove-appxprovisionedpackage –online
• Re-install Mail, People and Calendar from the Store (green tile)

 

Mail & Calendar app on Windows 10

If there are no error messages, check on the article below, and follow the suggested troubleshooting steps to resolve the issue:

• Resolve sync issues in Mail and Calendar apps in Windows 10

Let us know if the issue persists.

 

accent color

The accent color (primarily the red shades) are missing in window 10 and do not know why. Any suggestion how to get the original window 10 accent colors back? Thank you.

 

Mail app will not open on 10041.

Hey Shawn,
I did that to no avail, then I ran WSReset.exe; now I'm good on all 3, Mail, Calendar and People! *Confused
Go figure!

Store Cache - Clear in Windows 8

 

accent color

I have all the colors listed above. The shade of red is missing from above accent colors and is also missing from mine. I used to have the shade of red and like to get it back. I like to know how to update the driver of accent color in window 10.
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