File Folder - Colours

a mid to dark green; second row up, 4th from left

elbmek said:

a mid to dark green; second row up, 4th from left

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Hmmm, beats me!
I get colored Title Bars even with the pukey white theme!

******* awful isn't it

elbmek said:

******* awful isn't it

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I haven't the foggiest clue!
Check this location in Registry..., you got anything strange goin on there...

Accent color and accent colour inactive had two sep codes because it was suggested recently to change the inactive one to another of my choice. I have changed the inactive color to reflect the active colour albeit temporarily.

elbmek said:

Accent color and accent colour inactive had two sep codes because it was suggested recently to change the inactive one to another of my choice. I have changed the inactive color to reflect the active colour albeit temporarily.

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And... ??? ... did it change anything?

no Ed. I have got the desktop and taskbar exactly as I want it now but the file menu wont let me change that puke.
Personalise
Colours
Choose your mode - custom
Choose your default windows mode - dark*
Select colour - in my case dark green
Show accent colour on start and taskbar has now become active, switch it on

* for some reason this has to be selected

bingo

I have just read a Nvidia post where translucent tasbar is mentioned. What is the difference? Mine was transulcent but just turned that off.

I played around with this for a long time and came up with a compromise to getting things the way I wanted. You can change color of title bars and borders, but you can't change the pukey gray TOOLBAR color in explorer and some other Windows apps. Early on in Windows 11, I was able to change this toolbar color using a theme but changes were made to GUI that now prevents it.

I like light mode but found that "show accent color on start and taskbar' was grayed out. It is because Windows has to be in dark mode for it to be available. Here's what I did to use these options in light mode. I think you may have already figured this out, but I'm including it again so anyone else seeing this thread can keep everything in context.

go to settings-personalization- colors.

under 'choose your mode', change it to dark mode (this is temporary and it un-grays the option.)

Change 'show accent color on start and taskbar' to ON and change 'show accent color on title bar and windows borders' to ON.

scroll back up to 'choose your mode' change it to CUSTOM

set 'choose your windows default mode' to DARK

set 'choose your app mode' to LIGHT



I then used Winaerotweaker portable under "Appearance" section and changed the color of my inactive title bars. (The active title bars use my accent color)
Under "advanced appearance settings" I adjusted the scrollbar and windows border width as they were too narrow for my liking.

I took it one step further using WinTools Classic Color Panel. Wintools has a great explanation section that tells you what each value does.

I tweaked my hot tracking color because I couldn't see much difference in default navy link color and black. I made it a dark maroon. You can see the result in this forum’s page below. My active Window is Firefox in this screenshot.
I changed my highlight color to one matching my desktop. I couldn't handle that stark white background so by changing the color for “window” I gave it a little gray tint that made everything easier on the eyes. At this point I NEARLY have it like I want but intend to keep playing with it as I have time.

Maybe this will help someone who wants to get a little more personal with personalization.

I was googling to change just the windows border colour (not the title bars), and I found this!

What the hell is that?! Microsoft has decided to add colour (accent colour) to UWP title bars (Explorer, new Notepad ...) in build 22581. Don't do that! Please upvote in the feedback hub to split that setting into two independent options.

In the current version (official 22H1), we can enable "Show accent color on title bars and windows borders". But the accent colour just appears on win32 apps' title bars by selecting their windows (not the UWPs or Explorer title bars):

Edwin said:

@elbmek
Are you trying to change the color of the File Explorer Title Bar???

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Edwin's right.

With "File Folder - Colors" as thread's title, I was expecting this kind of discussion :




Maybe you should change it into "Title bars and window borders - Color Issue".


I hope Insiders are working on it, as I guess it's a glitch of Explorer's behavior.