Windows 10: Window's Menu background color

Hello everybody,

How can I change the background color of a Window's Menu*?

* Not be confused with the Window's Start Menu. I know how to do that.

Don Cole

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Background colour of applications, under Windows 10 I haven't been able to find this function

My windows app menu (Windows 10) is missing the color background completely. When I open the app menu, the background is using same as my start menu (Windows Desktop), which is my windows theme background. I checked all the color choices in Settings.
I can't find anything telling it to not use a background color for the windows apps. I can restart and see if that fixes it.

 

Why are right-click menu background colors different ?

Start button right-click menu background color: Black / Dark color

Taskbar right-click background color: Black / Dark color

Desktop right-click background color: White / Light color

Can we make all right-click menu background colors the same ? Black / Dark color, for example.

Below screenshot shows the three right-click menus together. The menus are shot at different times but put together for easy comparison.

 

What do you mean? The Task View background when switching desktops? The blue background you get when you multi-boot? The menu you get when you hit *Start + X?

Could you post a picture perhaps?

 

Thank you

for your reply lx07, *Smile

Here you go.

Don Cole

 

There is no setting for those menu's in win10 afaik. In High Contrast Themes it can be manipulated in the theme code. I remember some app a while back that manipulated it but did not work well. I gave up themes on 10 a long time ago.

 

You can change it here:

Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Colors but you should be aware that changes will affect other areas too:



There's a thread here. Seems to work on windows 10 but I cannot fully test as I use a File Explorer replacement.

How to change background color of Folders in Windows 7 Solved - Windows 7 Help Forums

Read it all.

When i say other areas will be affected here's another example;




So opening a notepad document looks like this:




Suggest: Don't make any changes without backing up (exporting) registry keys. Also it won't work if using custom themes.

 

This is why I said I gave up on themes in 10. They threw all the rules out the window!

 

I appologise if I am barging in here, but I didn't think it appropriate to start a new thread for this similar question.

Is there a way to change the background colour of the Settings Menus to a pastel colour?

I have seen the option in Personalise to set the theme colour to either Dark or Light; see first example of my current White background:



Settings Background White-1 by Philip Mock, on Flickr

........but is it possible to change the Settings Menus background colour to something similar to the grey example below that I saw on a Web Page?



Settings Background Grey by Philip Mock, on Flickr

Pip

 

Version 1803 Build 17134.1 is the current IP/Insider Preview, not released to the public yet, as mentioned in many news stories and forums.

 

The grey background is likely to be Just a mock up given it's source - Flickr

Also, This menu has changed in Spring Creators Update 1803 so probably not a great idea to pursue this idea, until the whole system has settled down Microsoft may even add the option themselves

 

Thank you very much for your advice.

I am yet to receive the Spring Creators Update 1803. I did have an update to my "out of the box" Build Version of 1709 on the 10th April 2018, which turned out to be 1709 (OS Build 16299.371) when it installed.

Pip.

 

The Spring Creators Update is currently on hold I am on the insider program so received it, before they found the "Blocking Bug" and stopped the planned release on April 10th. No date so far for actual release