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  1. unko Win User

    Turn On or Off Show Color on Title Bars in Windows 10


    How to: Turn On or Off Show Color on Title Bars and Borders in Windows 10

    How to Turn On or Off Show Accent Color on Title Bars and Borders in Windows 10


    When you change the accent color in Windows 10, it will change the color of your Start menu accents, Start button, taskbar, title bars, window borders, buttons, text, Settings accents, sign-in screen accents, and Action Center accents by default.

    If you turn on show accent color on title bars and window borders, your selected accent color will show on the title bar and borders of the active window. The tile bars and borders of inactive windows will be a faded version of your accent color.

    If you turn off show accent color on title bars and window borders, all title bars and window borders will only show with the default white color instead of your selected accent color.

    This tutorial will show you how to turn on or off showing the accent color on title bars and window borders without affecting the color on Start, taskbar, and action center for your account in Windows 10.


    CONTENTS:
    • Option One: To Turn On or Off Show Accent Color on Title Bars and Window Borders in Settings
    • Option Two: To Turn On or Off Show Accent Color on Title Bars and Window Borders using a BAT file

    EXAMPLE: Show accent color on title bars and window borders turned on and off

    Turn On or Off Show Color on Title Bars in Windows 10 [​IMG]

    Turn On or Off Show Color on Title Bars in Windows 10 [​IMG]







    OPTION ONE [/i] To Turn On or Off Show Accent Color on Title Bars and Window Borders in Settings
    1. Open Settings, and click/tap on the Personalization icon.

    2. Click/tap on Colors on the left side, and check (on - default) or uncheck (off) Title bars and window borders under Show accent color on the following surfaces on the right side for what you want. (see screenshot below)
    3. You can now close Settings if you like.


    Turn On or Off Show Color on Title Bars in Windows 10 [​IMG]






    OPTION TWO [/i] To Turn On or Off Show Accent Color on Title Bars and Window Borders using a BAT file

    Turn On or Off Show Color on Title Bars in Windows 10 [​IMG]
    Note The .bat files below will modify the DWORD values in the registry key below.

    HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\DWM

    ColorPrevalence DWORD

    0 = Turn off show color on title bar
    1 = Turn on show color on title bar


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


    2. To Turn On Show Accent Color on Title Bars and Window Borders
    *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.

    Turn_On_Show_accent_color_on_Title_bars_and_borders.bat

    Download

    3. To Turn Off Show Accent Color on Title Bars and Window Borders
    A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the file below, and go to step 4 below.

    Turn_Off_Show_accent_color_on_Title_bars_and_borders.bat

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

    5. Unblock the .bat file.

    6. Double click/tap on the downloaded .bat file to run it.

    7. You will now notice your screen flicker and a command prompt quickly open and close as explorer is restarted to apply the registry changes.

    8. You can now delete the downloaded .bat file if you like.

    That's it,
    Shawn


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    unko, Dec 8, 2015
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  2. carolmso Win User

    On Windows 10 how do I change the Active window border color?

    Well, several re-starts after no updates remained, the title bars were still white. Ran winver, it said all was the same as the computer that has colored title bars. Looked in the color picker, "title bar" was in the description.

    So, turned out the solution was easy (but should have been automatic...): turned the "show color" toggle off and then back on. Voila, color on the title bars!

    Thanks!

    C
     
    carolmso, Dec 8, 2015
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  3. lacrumb Win User
    restore visible distinction between top bar and menu bar of a window

    Go Settings, Personalization, Colors, Show color on title bar. Turn it on

    If you are in 15031 there is Show accent color on the following surfaces. One id Title bars.

    Not necessarily working in non-Windows programs.
     
    lacrumb, Dec 8, 2015
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  4. unko Win User

    Turn On or Off Show Color on Title Bars in Windows 10

    I've installed Windows 10 again (on a VM) and did that straight : it does NOT work. My version is a clean one, i don't get it..!! I made sure i read well the tutorial and follow it's lines.. Also surprised i'm 1st one to post in this thread..*Shock
     
  5. Brink
    Brink New Member
    Brink, Dec 10, 2015
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  6. jds63 Win User
    Here i thought this was going to be an added feature on build 10586, but still need to use a .bat file to do so.
     
    jds63, Dec 10, 2015
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  7. Brink
    Brink New Member
    It had been like in the tutorial below, but it's a global setting for Start, taskbar, action center, and title bar.

    https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/5...dows-10-a.html

    This tutorial will let you turn on/off the color for only the title bar instead. *Smile
     
    Brink, Dec 10, 2015
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  8. jds63 Win User

    Turn On or Off Show Color on Title Bars in Windows 10

    Give it a try, but i believe it looks like same tutorial i have tried in the past, dated May 2015, thanks
     
    jds63, Dec 10, 2015
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  9. jds63 Win User
    jds63, Dec 10, 2015
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  10. Brink
    Brink New Member
    You're most welcome. *Smile
     
    Brink, Dec 10, 2015
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    Brink New Member
    Brink, Dec 10, 2015
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  12. unko Win User
    It shows "12%" since yesterday and won't move.. Quite buggy :/
     
  13. Brink
    Brink New Member

    Turn On or Off Show Color on Title Bars in Windows 10

    It depends on how fast your internet connection is, and if there's any issues that could be affecting it.
     
    Brink, Dec 10, 2015
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  14. unko Win User
    How to set that color to black?
     
  15. Brink
    Brink New Member
    Brink, Apr 5, 2016
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