Turn On or Off Show Color Only On Taskbar in Windows 10

Night Hawk · 01 Dec 2015

This will be a time saver especially for anyone who gets confused about how to turn the color option on or off. I think we both realized that navigating through the Personalization settings was going to be a bit awkward at first for many!

spiron · 03 Apr 2016

Hi Shawn great trick, thank you. But some elements i.e. the notification panel, language panel and taskbar thumbnails keep the same color as the taskbar. Is there any way to change that too? Basically what I'm asking is is there a way to change only the color of titlebars e.g. green titlebars with black taskbar? And why this trick isn't build in in settings? Thanks

Brink · 03 Apr 2016

Hello spiron, :)

Yeah, it would be nice if this was included in Settings.

I haven't seen a way yet to have a separate color for the taskbar and active title bars, but you could have a separate color for inactive title bars.

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/3...dows-10-a.html

spiron · 03 Apr 2016

Hey Shawn it turns out there is a way to have different color taskbar and title bars and I found it with a simple google search. Maybe you can add this in your tutorial. It's quite simple:

Step one turn off "show color on start, taskbar, action center and title bar" in settings/personalization/colors.

Step two open registry and navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\DWM.
Set "ColorPrevalence" to 1.

That's it now you have different color taskbar and title bars. If you turn on "show color on start, taskbar, action center and title bar" "ColorPrevalence" goes back to 0 and you have to do it all over again.

I just don't understand why this isn't included as an option in settings. Anyway cheers.

Brink · 03 Apr 2016

spiron said:

Hey Shawn it turns out there is a way to have different color taskbar and title bars and I found it with a simple google search. Maybe you can add this in your tutorial. It's quite simple:

Step one turn off "show color on start, taskbar, action center and title bar" in settings/personalization/colors.

Step two open registry and navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\DWM.
Set "ColorPrevalence" to 1.

That's it now you have different color taskbar and title bars. If you turn on "show color on start, taskbar, action center and title bar" "ColorPrevalence" goes back to 0 and you have to do it all over again.

I just don't understand why this isn't included as an option in settings. Anyway cheers.

Yeah, if you don't mind a white title bar, you could turn off showing the color on title bars. :)

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/3...dows-10-a.html

spiron · 03 Apr 2016

Turning off "show color on start, taskbar, action center and title bar" gives you a white title bar and a black task bar.
Changing "ColorPrevalence" in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\DWM from 0 to 1, gives you back color title bars, while leaving taskbar black. It's working in my system as I'm writing this. And you can still change inactive title bars.

Brink · 03 Apr 2016

Yep, that's what this is for. :)

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/3...dows-10-a.html

Computer Chicken · 03 Apr 2016

spiron said:

Turning off "show color on start, taskbar, action center and title bar" gives you a white title bar and a black task bar.
Changing "ColorPrevalence" in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\DWM from 0 to 1, gives you back color title bars, while leaving taskbar black. It's working in my system as I'm writing this. And you can still change inactive title bars.

That's what I did too! :)