Windows 10: Enable or Disable Color Filters Hotkey in Windows 10

How to: Enable or Disable Color Filters Hotkey in Windows 10

How to Enable or Disable Color Filters Win+Ctrl+C Hotkey in Windows 10


Starting with color filters at the system level, including filters designed to make it easier for people with color blindness to differentiate between colors like red and green and to make it easier for people with light sensitivity to create and consume content.

Starting with Win+Ctrl+C hotkey used to toggle color filters on and off. This was added to help reduce accidental invocation of this hotkey.

This tutorial will show you how to enable or disable the color filters Win+Ctrl+C shortcut key for your account in Windows 10.


CONTENTS:

• Option One: To Enable or Disable Color Filters Hotkey in Settings
• Option Two: To Enable or Disable Color Filters Hotkey using a REG file

OPTION ONE [/i] To Enable or Disable Color Filters Hotkey in Settings
1. Open Settings, and click/tap on the Ease of Access icon.

2. Click/tap on Color filters on the left side, and check (on) or uncheck (off - default) Allow the shortcut key to toggle filter on or off on the right side for what you want. (see screenshot below)









OPTION TWO [/i] To Enable or Disable Color Filters Hotkey using a REG file

*note The downloadable .reg files below will modify the DWORD value in the registry key below.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\ColorFiltering

HotkeyEnabled DWORD

0 = Disable
1 = Enable


1. Do step 2 (enable) or step 3 (disable) below for what you would like to do.


2. To Enable Color Filters Hotkey
A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the file below, and go to step 4 below.

Enable_color_filters_hotkey.reg

Download

3. To Disable Color Filters Hotkey
*note This is the default setting.
A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the file below, and go to step 4 below.

Disable_color_filters_hotkey.reg

Download
4. Save the .reg file to your desktop.

5. Double click/tap on the downloaded .reg file to merge it.

6. When prompted, click/tap on Run, Yes (UAC), Yes, and OK to approve the merge.

7. You can now delete the downloaded .reg file if you like.

That's it,
Shawn


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Monitor lost color


Lucikily, Windows 10 build 17083 and later will include a setting to enable or disable the keyboard shortcut for Color Filters.

*Arrow Enable or Disable Color Filters Hotkey in Windows 10 General Tips Tutorials

 

Windows 10 colors

Hello Anna,

As Dave posted, it sounds like you may have turned on Color Filters by mistake.

The tutorial below can show you more on how to turn off Color Filters in Windows 10.

Turn On or Off Color Filters to the Screen in Windows 10

In addition, the tutorial below can help show you how to disable the Win+Ctrl+C hotkeys used to toggle Color Filters on/off to prevent turning it on again by mistake.

Enable or Disable Color Filters Hotkey in Windows 10

 

how do I return to color. I have grayscale and do not like it.

Hello Ophelia,

It sounds like you turned on Color Filters by mistake.

The tutorials below can help show you how to turn it off, and to disable the hotkey to help prevent turning it on by mistake again.

Turn On or Off Color Filters to the Screen in Windows 10

Enable or Disable Color Filters Hotkey in Windows 10

 

Colors looking grey in Windows 10

Hi,



Thank you for writing to Microsoft Community Forums.



I understand that the colors look grey on your computer. I would suggest you to check the color filters in Settings and see if that helps. Kindly, refer the steps mentioned below:

1. Press Windows key + U, to open
   Ease of Access Settings.
   
2. Now, select Color filters from the left pane.
   
3. Under Use color filters, toggle the switch to
   off for Turn on color filters.
   
4. Clear the check box for Allow the shortcut key to toggle filter on or off.
   

Let us know how it goes.



Regards,

Nikhar Khare

Microsoft Community - Moderator

 

Color Filters

I have red-green colorblindness (green weak) and am wondering this:

When I enable the corresponding color filter, am I seeing roughly the same colors non-colorblind people would see without the color filter enabled?

Or do the filters only serve the purpose of helping me tell between red and green in the cases where I couldn't normally?

Thanks in advance.