Sub Menu Border and Colour Customisation


  1. Posts : 3
    Windows 10
       #1

    Sub Menu Border and Colour Customisation


    Hi all,

    I'm wondering if you can help me with the issues I'm having with Windows 10.

    I recently did a reinstallation and since doing so, I'm unable to rectify 2 issues I'm having.

    The first is my system tray icons and sub menus for task bar icons having a 1px border like the following screenshot:-
    Sub Menu Border and Colour Customisation-2015_12_05_17_02_512.png

    The second, if I right click my taskbar icons, I want to make the colour match the rest of the colour scheme, not be black, like the following screenshot:-
    Sub Menu Border and Colour Customisation-2015_12_05_17_04_553.png

    Can anyone help with how to resolve these issues?

    Thanks all.
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  2. Posts : 17,838
    Windows 10
       #2

    Hi supersonicsjm, welcome to tenforums.com! :)

    The translucent borders look like the effects of AeroLite, you'd have to go back to the default Windows 'borderless' theme.

    The only way to add matching colors to those elements would be to run a High Contrast Theme.
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  3. Posts : 3
    Windows 10
    Thread Starter
       #3

    OK, solved the border issue, guess I'll have to live with the black menu's though. Thanks a bunch for your help.
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  4. Posts : 181
    Windows 10 Pro x64
       #4

    Edwin said:
    Hi supersonicsjm, welcome to tenforums.com! :)

    The translucent borders look like the effects of AeroLite, you'd have to go back to the default Windows 'borderless' theme.

    The only way to add matching colors to those elements would be to run a High Contrast Theme.
    The colors can be adjusted via the registry. For example, I dislike how an accent color is applied not just to the Settings App text, but the start menu, taskbar, and window frames. With editing the ARGB [they might be ABGR, can't remember] hex values within the applicable keys, I kept my accent coloring within the Settings App text and eliminated it from applying to the start menu, taskbar, and window frames.

    It does take some time to do and get to the way you want, due to the alpha value, but it's worth it =]
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  5. Posts : 3
    Windows 10
    Thread Starter
       #5

    JW0914 said:
    The colors can be adjusted via the registry. For example, I dislike how an accent color is applied not just to the Settings App text, but the start menu, taskbar, and window frames. With editing the ARGB [they might be ABGR, can't remember] hex values within the applicable keys, I kept my accent coloring within the Settings App text and eliminated it from applying to the start menu, taskbar, and window frames.

    It does take some time to do and get to the way you want, due to the alpha value, but it's worth it =]
    I have looked into the registry values and tried tweaking some.

    Some I now know what they do, but others I'm not sure as they don't seem to affect anything.

    None of them seem to affect the menu's in question though.

    Does anyone know which registry value affects what?

    Also they are RGB not BGR.
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  6. Posts : 181
    Windows 10 Pro x64
       #6

    supersonicsjm said:
    I have looked into the registry values and tried tweaking some.

    Some I now know what they do, but others I'm not sure as they don't seem to affect anything.

    None of them seem to affect the menu's in question though.

    Does anyone know which registry value affects what?

    Also they are RGB not BGR.
    HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Accent

    HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\DWM

    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Themes\DefaultColors\Standard

    The color values in these keys are in hex value in the format of ARGB (A [Alpha] controls opaqueness/transparency), ranging from 0/00 - 255/FF [dec/hex - White would be decimal 255 255 255 or hex ffffff ]. I utilize colorpicker.com to determine hex values of decimal color codes. The built in Windows calculator has dec <-> hex conversion, however colorpicker.com allows you detemine what color you want, providing the output in hex and dec form.

    I think there's one or two additional keys as well, but can't remember for sure. It really is trial and error, and if one chooses to go this route, ensure you create a backup of the modified values, as if you apply a new theme or select a color in the Settings App, it will reset the values to the main accent color chosen and a darker/lighter value for additional accenting.
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