Windows 10: Change color user login screen

Hmmm..., strange! Maybe you have to keep 'Show color on Taskbar and Start Menu' enabled; or resart the machine.
Peculiar!

 

I thought it was odd as well, but that made no difference.

 

After I changed the Sign in screen color when using a local account and switched to a M$ account the colors changed to the synced colors that were saved when first setting up the machine and sync settings are always switched on by default when switching to a M$ account.

Just repeat the steps in Edwins Post #11 or follow Brinks tutorial in post #13 whichever is easier for you.

Another tip is to use the brightness slider to change the color, If you move the slider all the way to the left the login screen will be black (see below).

 

Coloring outside of the lines.

I got fed up trying to make colors 'just right' given the limited set.

I fired up Win8.1, grabbed my saved theme and copied it to:

%LocalAppData%\Microsoft\Windows\Themes
Then I personalized the machine to use that theme.

I used Brink's All Tasks tut to grab my most often used CPL cmdlets and stuck them in a folder for easy access.
You can right click any cmdlet displayed by the All tasks tut to create a shortcut on your desktop.

This compressed folder has two shortcuts for color cmdlets (accets and background): cplColor.zip

 

My answer to sign in screen is netplwiz

Sign in User Account Automatically at Windows 10 Startup
Attachment 19309
I'm the only one with access to my pc-*Tongue

 

@ lgentry :
Just out of curiosity, if you navigate to the following reg key, what is the value for your SpecialColor entry?

 

@ Cliff S :

I blurred out the other one for ya! *Wink

 

oops thank you Edwin,

 

Tried to rep you Edwin for security help but I gotta spread first*Sad

That's the only thing I don't like about using a windows account, it shows your email address to the world. They should change it to something like username@*********** then a click to show button.

 

I do not have that registry entry-only the first 3

 

Okay, toggle your ColorPrevalence to 1 and add the SpecialColor DWORD with your desired color in hex code.
Worth a try. *Smile

 

One other area to check.

Settings <- Ease of Access <- Other options

Visual options

 

Well, another thing I've given up on trying to workaround (the All apps menu and Windows colors)
There are just to many places that have undesired affects on color.

Here's an interesting result of one monkey typing away at the keyboard trying to write Shakespeare




There is one thing for those adventurous souls who wish to continue working around MS color.
The %ResourceDir% environment variable is referenced but it was not defined on my machine.
The specific reference was %ResourceDir%\Themes

C:\Windows\Resources was the best fit - but I'm not certain if that's the correct folder reference.
I set ResourceDir equal to C:\Windows\Resources in the System environment variable list and kept trying differnt workarounds, hoping the env var would help thing stick. Alas, it did not and it's time to play with some other things.

I really messed up the color scheme for a while, but it's acceptable now. High contrast, System themes, downloaded themes, show background pictures, img003.png, accents, background colors - too many things, I couldn't find a relationship that worked 30% of the time.

Good luck to any members who soldier on with color. MS has to fix this - such a simple thing that the end user sees all of the time. Bring back the full color dialog (border color, title bar color, gradient colors, enter the color code ..... - it might be daunting to some, but it made sense - screw the slider and the 16 or so MS sanctioned colors! How many colors are there (millions) and how many are offered - c'mon!)

Wait, maybe there's a revolution coming - kill off the artists, then the poets, then the lawyers
.... a coup de grâce
perhaps I already missed it. Microsoft's fait accompli
*Roflmao2

 

MS has to fix this - such a simple thing that the end user sees all of the time.
I'll drink to that!! When one sits at a computer 14-16 hours a day the way it appears to us is just as important as a bunch of new features, many of which most people will never use-ie: talking to the woman in the box (I wonder how much time and effort went into that little ditty). There are many things to like about Win10, but just as many to dislike. Taking away the user's ability to choose how their system looks and works for them is just Ludacris.