This tutorial will show you how to change the color and pattern appearance in Disk Management for your account in Windows 10 and Windows 11.
Disk Management is a system utility in Windows for advanced storage operations.
Disk Management shows the details for each drive on your PC and all partitions for each drive. The details include statistics about the partitions, including the amount of space allocated or used.
You can change the color and pattern settings for listed disk regions in Disk Management to customize them how you want to appear on the graphical view in the details pane.
Changes to the color and pattern appearance settings in the current Disk Management window are not saved and will only stay applied until you close Disk Management. When you open Disk Management next, it will show the default color and pattern appearance again.
You can create a custom Disk Management snap-in MSC that can save and remember any changes made.
Reference:
Overview of Disk Management
Learn how to use the Disk Management system utility in Windows to initialize drives, extend volumes, shrink partitions, and change drive letters.
learn.microsoft.com
Here's How:
1 Open Disk Management (diskmgmt.msc).
2 Click/tap on View on the menu bar, and click/tap on Settings. (see screenshot below)
3 In the Appearance tab, select a Disk region (ex: "Free space") you want to customize the color and pattern for. (see screenshot below)
4 Select an available color you want for this Disk region (ex: "Free space") in the Color drop menu. (see screenshot below)
5 Select an available pattern you want for this Disk region (ex: "Free space") in the Pattern drop menu. (see screenshot below)
6 When finished customizing disk regions, click/tap on OK to apply. (see screenshot below)
That's it,
Shawn Brink
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