Windows 10: Change the default Color of the Start Menu & Taskbar

To change the default Color of the Start Menu & Taskbar go to Control Panel > All Control Panel Items > Personalization > Color And Appearance then select Show Color Mixer. These 3 sliders will modify the solid color chosen above that also modifies the color of the Start Menu & Taskbar.

The Color Intensity slider only modifies the color of the window borders.

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Note Color Intensity & Color Mixer functions (Sliders) have been depreciated and no longer have any effect of altering a chosen color for builds newer than 10130.

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Get colored title bars without changing whole color scheme?

Is there a way in Threshold 2 Update to get the colored titled bar without changing your whole color scheme?

I like the default start menu and taskbar colors. But in order to get a colored "title bar" i.e. see your active window with focus, you need to change the global color setting that changes Start, taskbar, action center, & title bar. There doesn't seem to
be a similar color to choose like the default color of the Start Menu.

I was very disappointed to find out colored title bars are not enabled by default.

The lack of color for the active window that has focus was the most annoying thing about Windows 10. They seemed to have brought it back, but I'm sure hardly any people are going to use it and enable it since it's disabled by default.

Any way to change ONLY the focused window's title bar color?

 

How to change the appearance in Windows 10?

"Windows 10 has a new black system theme across the Start menu, Taskbar, and Action Center. There is now support for AutoColor which pulls the primary color from your desktop background.

This tutorial will show you how to change the color of your Start menu accents, Start button, taskbar, title bars (build 10525), window borders, buttons, text, Settings accents, sign-in screen accents, and Action Center accents to any color you want in
Windows 10."

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But I can't choose a very light grey task bar color like in Window 8 or Windows 7. I can not choose a color light enough for my liking. No really light greys or anything. Further, the minimize, maximize and close buttons on windows look different and I don't know if it's possible to make it win7 or win8 style again.

 

It's one of the rare place in Win Ten where settings are unstable.

These problems were there under 10074. Do we agree that the desktop color default is black?
If you change it, you loose it. I don't even try to change it now because it's the setting that I use.

 

I am not sure if the default is black or not, I forget. I am now running Windows 10 build 10240 64-bit. The available color selection in the Immersive Control Panel has not changed from 10176 to 10240, which is basically the final release of win10.

The darkest color selection is rather dark but not black. The lightest is a lightish grey but still nowhere as light as windows 8's start menu and task bar color.
Yes I am running Start10 but right now it is not changing the color of the start menu, just making it classic, and changing the button.

Attached are 4 pics. 1 of them I believe is the default color, but maybe not. The other 3 files are messing with the color selection within the Immersive Control Panel's color selection and you can see the color selection has not changed between builds.

I hope the final version of Start10 can not only change the color of the start menu, but of the task bar as well. But really, Microsoft, get with it! Why not a full RGB selection?

Pics; Windows 10 color slections - Album on Imgur

 

How do you lift the 49 color selection limitation so it's unlimited RGB like Windows 7?