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By default, you can choose a color for your Start menu accents, Start button, taskbar, buttons, text, Settings accents, sign-in screen accents, and Action Center accents in the Settings app now. The old Color and Appearance Control Panel will also let you change the color intensity and includes a color mixer to let you have a wider choice of colors to select from than you can in Settings. Oct 12, 2017  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 just upgraded my PC to Win10 but cannot find the dialog 'Window Color and Appearance'. In Win7, it should be at: Control Panel => Appearance and Personalization => Personalization => Window Color and Appearance, and it looks like:

How can I access it in Win10?

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Although the Window Color and Appearance dialog is no longer available, you can still edit the underlying registry settings in HKEY_CURRENT_USERControl PanelColors

For example, change your background color from white to grey by changing the Window property from 255 255 255 to 160 160 160

The three numbers in each entry are the RGB (Red, Green, Blue) codes for the color required. Each number can be any value from 0 to 255 to allow you to choose any of over 16 million colors. For example, white is 255 255 255, red is 255 0 0, blue is 0 0 255. Please note that there is a single space between each number.

You can get help with the colors using an online color picker such as www.colorpicker.com, selecting the color you want and making a note of the RGB codes and then entering them into the registry setting.

I found a computer restart was required though a log off/on again may suffice for the changes to take effect.

Take a look: Color and Appearance shortcut - Create 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.

By default, you can choose a color for your Start menu accents, Start button, taskbar, buttons, text, Settings accents, sign-in screen accents, and Action Center accents in the Settings app now.

The old Color and Appearance Control Panel will also let you change the color intensity and includes a color mixer to let you have a wider choice of colors to select from than you can in Settings.

This tutorial will show you how to download or create a Color and Appearance shortcut that opens to the old Control Panel method to change colors for your account in Windows 10.

1. Click/tap on the Download button below to download the .zip file.

2. Save the .zip file to your desktop.

3. Unblock the .zip file.

4. Open the .zip file, and extract (drag and drop) the shortcut to your desktop.

5. If you like, you can Pin to Taskbar, Pin to Start, add to All apps, add to Quick Launch, assign a keyboard shortcut to, or move this shortcut to where you like for easy use.

6. When finished, you can delete the downloaded .zip file if you like.

I found another answer which seems to work better, mainly because the above script does not work properly on my computer. Colour saturation and intensity actually change a turqoise colour to a navy blue when slider is at minimum position, rather than making the colour less intense or less saturated.

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Here is what I found on another thread:Just create a batch file (.BAT) using notepad, which has the following command-line command in it

So I took the above command and created a file called 'Desktop Customer Colors.bat' and placed it (or a shortcut that points to it) on my Windows 10 desktop. This opens the following window:

Change background color:

Here is the color palette:

In case you just want to change application background color ONLY (e.g. Microsoft Word) and leave other settings untouched, please see another Super User question: How to change default window background color in Windows 10? and read the answer by Vinayak to create a .theme file to make that change.

Classic Color Panel gives you a GUI to control many of the values in HKEY_CURRENT_USERControl PanelColors.

But, as the author notes, for Windows 10 'Unfortunately, the settings of Classic Color Panel do not always have an impact on the actually displayed image elements.'

In my experience, it makes almost no difference to the total mess of Windows 10 color control.

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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.

Dear Rose,

I think you have 3 options:

1. Control Panel > Appearance & Personalization > Pick one of the High Contrast themes with black background

2. Reduce screen brightness, or use a computer built-in screen color effects software (e.g Dell True Color/ Sony VAIO Control Center..)

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3. Get a third-party theme (some kinda Dark theme for Windows 10 - deviantart forum) - Read its own instruction carefully. Sometime this may get you in some terrible security issues, consider

Windows Color And Appearance Settings 2017

Joe