Windows 10: Turn On or Off Start, Taskbar, and Action Center Color in Windows 10

How to: Turn On or Off Start, Taskbar, and Action Center Color in Windows 10

Turn On or Off Show Color on Start, Taskbar, and Action Center in Windows 10


Windows 10 includes a new black system theme across the Start menu, Taskbar, and Action Center. There is now support for AutoColor which pulls the primary color from your desktop background. You can change the color of Start, taskbar, title bars (build 10525), and Action Center.

Starting with accent color when Show accent color for Start, taskbar, and action center is selected in Color Settings.

If you are using a high contrast theme, then you will not be able to turn on or off to show color on taskbar and Start menu since it will be disabled.

If you turn off show color on Start, taskbar, and action center, your Start menu, taskbar, and action center background will have a black color.

If you turn on show color on Start, taskbar, and action center will have the color you selected.

This tutorial will show you how to turn on or off to show accent color on Start, taskbar, and action center for your account in Windows 10.


CONTENTS:

• Option One: Turn On or Off Show Color on your Start, Taskbar, and Action Center in Settings
• Option Two: Turn On or Off Show Color on your Start, Taskbar, and Action Center using a BAT file

EXAMPLE: Show Color on Start, Taskbar, and Action Center turned On and Off



















OPTION ONE [/i] Turn On or Off Show Color on your Start, Taskbar, and Action Center in Settings
1. Open Settings, and click/tap on the Personalization icon.

2. Click/tap on Colors on the left side, and check (on) or uncheck (off - default) Start, taskbar, and action center under Show accent color on the following surfaces on the right side for what you want. (see screenshot below)

*note If you selected to use Light for Choose your color or Choose your default Windows mode, then the Start, taskbar, and action center setting will be grayed out.



3. When finished, you can close Settings if you like.

4. If you turned on show color on Start, taskbar, and action center, then you can now change the color to what you like.





OPTION TWO [/i] Turn On or Off Show Color on your Start, Taskbar, and Action Center using a BAT file

*note The .bat files below will modify the DWORD values in the registry key below.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Themes\Personalize

ColorPrevalence DWORD

0 = Turn off show color on Start, taskbar, and action center
1 = Turn on show color on Start, taskbar, and action center

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


2. To Turn On Show Color on Start, Taskbar, and Action Center
A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the BAT file below, and go to step 4 below.

Turn_On_Show_Color_on_Start_taskbar_action-center.bat

Download

3. To Turn Off Show Color on Start, Taskbar, and Action Center
*note This is the default setting.
A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the BAT file below, and go to step 4 below.

Turn_Off_Show_Color_on_Start_taskbar_action-center.bat

Download
4. Save the .bat file to your desktop, and run the .bat file.

5. If prompted, click/tap on Run to approve.

*note If you like, you can unblock the .bat file to stop getting the Run prompt.

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

7. When finished, you can delete the downloaded .bat file if you like.

8. If you turned on show color on Start, taskbar, and action center, then you can now change the color to what you like.

That's it,
Shawn


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Changing the color of the Taskbar in Windows 10 ONLY

Tweak Colorization Settings for Titlebar, Taskbar and Start Menu in Windows 10 - AskVG

This article explains 4 scenarios:

• Colorized Taskbar, Start Menu, Action Center and White Titlebar
  
  
• Colorized Titlebar and Dark Taskbar, Start Menu, Action Center
  
  
• Colorized Taskbar, Titlebar and Dark Start Menu, Action Center
• Colorized Taskbar, White Titlebar and Dark Start Menu, Action Center
• You should go for the first one

 

How do I change the Title Bar color of ALL Windows 10 Explorer windows?

Hi,

Its highly unusual that you are facing this issue ,we tried to recreate it and we couldn't find the issue that you were facing

I suggest you to follow the below method and check if it helps:

1.Go to Settings and select Personalization.

2.Select Color.

3.Turn "Automatically pick an accent color from my background" Off and select the color which you wish to have.

4.Turn Off "Show color on Start, taskbar, action center, and title bar" .

5.Restart the system, and again Turn On "Show color on Start, taskbar, action center, and title bar".

If you need further assistance, we will glad to help you.

 

Hello Mystik, and welcome to Ten Forums. *Smile

Sounds like you may have some other issue at hand since the .bat file only changes what's in the note box, which is the same as what OPTION ONE does.

As a test, restart the computer to see if it may just be a glitch.

If it doesn't help, then download and merge the .reg file below to see if it may. It will restore the default registry entries for the "Personalize" desktop context menu.

Personalize.reg

Code: Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\DesktopBackground\Shell\Personalize] @=hex(2):40,00,25,00,73,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,72,00,6f,00,6f,00,74,\ 00,25,00,5c,00,73,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,33,00,32,00,5c,00,74,00,\ 68,00,65,00,6d,00,65,00,63,00,70,00,6c,00,2e,00,64,00,6c,00,6c,00,2c,00,2d,\ 00,31,00,30,00,00,00 "HideInSafeMode"="" "Icon"=hex(2):25,00,73,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,72,00,6f,00,6f,00,74,\ 00,25,00,5c,00,73,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,33,00,32,00,5c,00,74,00,\ 68,00,65,00,6d,00,65,00,63,00,70,00,6c,00,2e,00,64,00,6c,00,6c,00,2c,00,2d,\ 00,31,00,00,00 "Position"="Bottom" "SettingsURI"="ms-settingsersonalization" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\DesktopBackground\Shell\Personalize\command] "DelegateExecute"="{556FF0D6-A1EE-49E5-9FA4-90AE116AD744}"[/quote]

 

Thank you for the welcome...and apologize for the alarm there. The restart seems to have fixed it. It was quite weird, though...I didn't seem to have any permissions suddenly before the reboot. I couldn't even save a document to the normal folder.

 

No worries. I always want to hear about any issues to see what was wrong so that it can be corrected or help others. *Smile

 

*Smile

Do you happen to know how to get the other colors to work? For example, I tried changing the ActiveTitle to 19 35 212 and InactiveTitle to 117 118 120...just some example darker colors...but it did not take effect. I did reboot again, just in case it would not change until that. TIA if any info.

 

You would need to use a high contrast theme to be able to change those like in step 7 below. *Smile

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/3...dows-10-a.html

 

Bah. Was hoping there was a better way. I did see that before. Oh well. *Smile I'll stick with the other for now.

 

I don't blame you. I don't care for the high contrast themes either.

 

RegKey is wrong

WRONG

The .bat files below are for changing the registry key and value below.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Themes\Personalize

RIGHT

The .bat files below are for changing the registry key and value below.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Themes\Personalize

 

Hello pintonunes,

Thank you. The .bat files were correct, but I just didn't include "SOFTWARE" in the path in the note box for some reason. *Confused

 

How did you get blue title bar in your pic here ? Other tutorial shows always be white if turned off or on for color personalization settings.Mine are on, am i missing anything from this or other tutorials ?
https://www.windowsphoneinfo.com/threads/change-accent-color-in-windows-10.660/

 

Hey mate, *Smile

Once you turn on Show color on Start, taskbar, and action center, you would just need to select the color you want below.

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/3...dows-10-a.html

 

I know how to select colors for those 3 items, but no setting to make the color appear on Title bar as stated here, guess unless i maybe use AeroLite. Title bar always be white on or off, but your pic was blue title bar.*Rolleyes