Windows 10: Start menu colour inconsistency

I set the colour accent to blue and chose the option to show it in the start menu and taskbar, but when I type something in the start menu it reverts to black. This behaviour is not present on my other machine. Can someone help please?

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Unable to customize Start menu


Doing what you have suggested, Slartybart, only allows me to change the background colour of the entire screen. I need that "Start Menu" tab in order to just change the colour of the Start Menu.

 

Inconsistent Shell Context Menu


I noticed something peculiar this morning. The Explorer right-click context menu is inconsistent on what it displays.

For example, when I right-clicked on one folder, it displays the "Add to Windows Media Player List" and "Play with Windows Media Player" options.





However, when I right-clicked on another folder, these options are absent.





Whether these options appear in the context menu seems to be entirely arbitrary. About half of the folders have the options, and the rest do not.

Is this a known bug?

 

Windows 10 Exact Taskbar and Start Menu Colour

Hi.

In Windows 10 1809 whenever you change the accent colour to a custom colour the window border colour is set to the exact colour you chose however the taskbar and start menu colour are changed slightly.

For example:

The custom accent colour set was: #66cbea
The window border has this colour exactly:




However the taskbar has the colour #41b7db




and the start menu the colour #4fc3e6




Is there a way to disable this colour changing / darkening so that the window borders, taskbar and start menu all have the exact same hex colour.

Thanks.