How to Turn On or Off Show Accent Color on Title Bars and Borders in Windows 10
When you change the accent color in Windows 10, it will change the color of your Start menu accents, Start button, taskbar, title bars, window borders, buttons, text, Settings accents, sign-in screen accents, and Action Center accents by default.
If you turn on show accent color on title bars and window borders, your selected accent color will show on the title bar and borders of the active window. The tile bars and borders of inactive windows will be a faded version of your accent color.
If you turn off show accent color on title bars and window borders, all title bars and window borders will only show with the default white color instead of your selected accent color.
This tutorial will show you how to turn on or off showing the accent color on title bars and window borders without affecting the color on Start, taskbar, and action center for your account in Windows 10.
Contents
- Option One: To Turn On or Off Show Accent Color on Title Bars and Window Borders in Settings
- Option Two: To Turn On or Off Show Accent Color on Title Bars and Window Borders using a BAT file
EXAMPLE: Show accent color on title bars and window borders turned on and off
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1Open Settings, and click/tap on the Personalization icon.
2 Click/tap on Colors on the left side, and check (on - default) or uncheck (off) Title bars and window borders under Show accent color on the following surfaces on the right side for what you want. (see screenshot below)
3 You can now close Settings if you like.
The downloadable .bat files below will modify the DWORD values in the registry key below.
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\DWM
ColorPrevalence DWORD
0 = Turn off show color on title bar
1 = Turn on show color on title bar
1 Do step 2 (on) or step 3 (off) below for what you would like to do.
This is the default setting.
A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the file below, and go to step 4 below.
Turn_On_Show_accent_color_on_Title_bars_and_borders.bat
Download
A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the file below, and go to step 4 below.
Turn_Off_Show_accent_color_on_Title_bars_and_borders.bat
Download
4 Save the .bat file to your desktop.
5 Unblock the .bat file.
6 Double click/tap on the downloaded .bat file to run it.
7 You will now notice your screen flicker and a command prompt quickly open and close as explorer is restarted to apply the registry changes.
8 You can now delete the downloaded .bat file if you like.
That's it,
Shawn
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