Windows 10: Now you can have COLORED INACTIVE TITLE BARS !

Hi all

Here is how :

Let's go into regedit ( launch run command and type "regedit" without quotes )

Now go to the following path :

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\DWM

now you gonna create a new dword ( see screenshot ) named " AccentColorInactive "



double click on it and edit the color with hexadecimal values using a nice url I found for it

Color Hex Color Codes

the TRICK is to copy from right to left the values ( blue first , then green and red ) found in hexadecimal field



Now fill the DWORD hexadecimal field with them to get :





Now you have your INACTIVE windows title bars COLORED





Credits to Vishal Guptal from askvg for this nice tip !

Working under windows 10 1511 - 10586 build

Regards

EDIT: just found Edwin told the tip before *Smile lol

Maybe to put in tutorial section Brink ? *Smile

:)

 

Windows 10 title bar color

Right-click desktop, Properties, Colors. Select an accent color, and enable the following option:

Show color on Start, Taskbar, action center, and title bar

One problem is that the inactive title bar color also uses the same accent color. But you can change the inactive titlebar color using registry edit (AccentColorInactive). Change
the Inactive Title Bar Color in Windows 10?

And to independently apply the accent colors (eg., only for titlebars), see this excellent post at Reddit: tutorial_independently_colourise_or_decolourise

Google for ColorPrevalence and AccentColorInteractive

Google

 

How to Change Active Title Bar Text Color in Windows 10 Fall Creators Update?

Can you tell me the registry entries for active and inactive title bar colors? Thank you for the text coloring!

 

Hmm, doesn't work for me (even with a reboot).

 

After some testing, I've found that the 'tweak' works as expected on an 'AeroLite' Theme, much more so than on Windows default 'Hero' theme.