Windows 10: Sub Menu Border and Colour Customisation

Hi all,

I'm wondering if you can help me with the issues I'm having with Windows 10.

I recently did a reinstallation and since doing so, I'm unable to rectify 2 issues I'm having.

The first is my system tray icons and sub menus for task bar icons having a 1px border like the following screenshot:-




The second, if I right click my taskbar icons, I want to make the colour match the rest of the colour scheme, not be black, like the following screenshot:-




Can anyone help with how to resolve these issues?

Thanks all.

:)

 

Windows 10 - advanced appearance settings

Hi

I have just bought a new laptop with Windows 10 preinstalled. The default white background of applications is hurting my eyes. I was wondering if it is possible to change the background colour of applications (previously customised in 'Advanced Appearance
Settings' by selecting 'window' from the dropdown list - when using Windows 7 and XP). I have tried changing the colour using personalise, but this only seems to change the desktop background, taskbar, start menu, and window borders. The background of my
applications remains white, and this, with the black writing is hurting my eyes. The title bar also remains white, which doesn't make it very clear.

 

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Tiles colour change according to accent colour set. If you need more customisation there are lot of tile customisation apps available on the Store.

You can't change tiles colour by default.

 

Hi supersonicsjm, welcome to tenforums.com! *Smile

The translucent borders look like the effects of AeroLite, you'd have to go back to the default Windows 'borderless' theme.

The only way to add matching colors to those elements would be to run a High Contrast Theme.

 

OK, solved the border issue, guess I'll have to live with the black menu's though. Thanks a bunch for your help.

 

The colors can be adjusted via the registry. For example, I dislike how an accent color is applied not just to the Settings App text, but the start menu, taskbar, and window frames. With editing the ARGB [they might be ABGR, can't remember] hex values within the applicable keys, I kept my accent coloring within the Settings App text and eliminated it from applying to the start menu, taskbar, and window frames.

It does take some time to do and get to the way you want, due to the alpha value, but it's worth it =]

 

I have looked into the registry values and tried tweaking some.

Some I now know what they do, but others I'm not sure as they don't seem to affect anything.

None of them seem to affect the menu's in question though.

Does anyone know which registry value affects what?

Also they are RGB not BGR.

 

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Accent

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\DWM

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Themes\DefaultColors\Standard

The color values in these keys are in hex value in the format of ARGB (A [Alpha] controls opaqueness/transparency), ranging from 0/00 - 255/FF [dec/hex - White would be decimal 255 255 255 or hex ffffff ]. I utilize colorpicker.com to determine hex values of decimal color codes. The built in Windows calculator has dec <-> hex conversion, however colorpicker.com allows you detemine what color you want, providing the output in hex and dec form.

I think there's one or two additional keys as well, but can't remember for sure. It really is trial and error, and if one chooses to go this route, ensure you create a backup of the modified values, as if you apply a new theme or select a color in the Settings App, it will reset the values to the main accent color chosen and a darker/lighter value for additional accenting.