Windows 10: How do I fix bright scroll bars and selection colors in file explorer?

I have an odd problem with file explorer in my windows 11 education edition system. I just domain joined my laptop to my DC last week and added my domain account to my laptop. I already had a local account set up on the laptop, and I have no issues there. However, on my domain account, the scroll bar, sort bar and selection color for the left panel are all very bright despite having dark mode selected. I prefer dark mode but would like my file explorer colors to be in all dark mode like it is on my local account. I don't get why my domain account has this problem, I didn't mess with group poli

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How do I fix bright scroll bars and selection colors in file explorer?

I have an odd problem with file explorer in my windows 11 education edition system. I just domain joined my laptop to my DC last week and added my domain account to my laptop. I already had a local account set up on the laptop, and I have no issues there. However, on my domain account, the scroll bar, sort bar and selection color for the left panel are all very bright despite having dark mode selected. I prefer dark mode but would like my file explorer colors to be in all dark mode like it is on my local account. I don't get why my domain account has this problem, I didn't mess with group policy on the DC (yet) and the GP changes I made on the laptop don't have anything to do with visual styles.

I can't figure this problem out, I tried a google and Bing search, but I can't find anything relating to this and all the results are for "how to enable dark mode" which already know how to do and have done and isn't working right!

Please help me with this problem, it makes using dark mode on my domain account unusable because the file explorer scroll bar, sorting bar, and selection colors all bright background with light text (making it unreadable). I don't get why this problem exists specifically for dark mode and only on the domain account.

I tried to upload screenshots here, but it kept failing constantly, so I posted the screenshots to imgur

broken colors in windows 11

 

Scroll bar keeps resetting in Windows File Explorer.

For some reason, when I'm browsing a long list of files, if I stop moving my scroll wheel for a few seconds, the scroll bar in the file explorer jumps back up to the very top. Which is annoying when I'm browsing a folder that has hundreds of files in it.
This only happens in the file explorer. Any suggestions?

 

Explorer title bar text color too bright grey

Hi Loraine, thanks for your answer.

The High contrast settings are changing all colours in a direction that I do not like at all.

It's for business and I try to stay more or less close to the Windows 7 settings.

The result with the original too bright title bars is:





After setting the AccentColorInactive to b8b4b0 (BGR), the result is:





Now you can now see 2 problems that I have:

• The File Explorer title bar gets a poor text contrast, while the Notepad title bar is OK. This is related to the presence of buttons in the File Explorer title bar.
  
  The text colour in the File Explorer title bar is the same as without the grey background.
  
  In the Notepad window the text colour gets darker than the original color.
  
  The addition of colors seems to happen in a different way.
  
• The Windows 10 Settings window has a blue title bar when active and a still a white title bar when inactive.
  
  The AccentColorInactive parameter does not set that color.

It would be nice if Microsoft could improve the colour experience.

Just an additional button "Show color on inactive title bar".