Windows 10: Dark Mode - Taskbar issue

I have a HP Spectre X360 which has slowly been not working as well. As an attempt to improve performance, I reset my computer completely to factory settings. When I booted it back up, dark mode was on but the taskbar was not affected. I am not sure how to fix this.


Dark mode is better for me and I would hate to not have my taskbar working with the theme. I just want my taskbar to work with the dark mode.


I have attached a screenshot of what I see - and any help would be much appreciated. Thank you.




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My taskbar seems to be stuck on dark mode

My taskbar seems to be stuck on dark mode, I can change to dark and I get the task bar settings back (I get white text and icons), but when I change both options (windows mode and app mode) to light, the checkbox for accent colour on task is greyed out. My taskbar shows dark text and icons in light mode whether I have a dark or light background image




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Duh! Figured out the default should in fact be dark mode. I thought it was light by default, but it's the other way around. No wonder I couldn't tick the box to apply accent colour to taskbar! It's not really obvious in the settings. Has the transparency setting changed? It's been a while since I tinkered around with my colours and settings. I seem to remember there being a slider to set the level of transparency for the taskbar, but this doesn't seem to be available anymore.

 

Dark mode

Hi EpicDoge

It depends on the version of Windows 10 you have installed, this option changed in version 1903, please check if this works for you:

Open the Settings App (gear icon on your Start Menu)

Go to Personalization - Colors

Set 'Choose your Color' to Custom

Set Windows Mode to Dark

Set App Mode to light or Dark

Then the option to change the Taskbar color should be active . ..

You can also set App Mode to light or dark separately form Windows Mode and there is a new feature in 1903, where form each Apps settings, you can individually set an app to either dark or light mode . ..

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Dark Mode

Hi AI,

I am Sumit, an Independent Advisor and a 2-Year Windows Insider MVP here to help.

To get custom color on the taskbar or a dark taskbar keeping everything white here is the ideal configuration.

Go to Start>Settings>Personalization. Go to Colors menu.

Under Choose your default Windows mode, choose Custom.

Under Default Windows mode, choose dark.

Under Default app mode, choose Light.

Detailed tutorial is here.

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/24038-chang...

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