Advanced appearance settings

[Allan]

http://www.windowscentral.com/replace-those-white-title-bars-windows-10-colors-theme

Microsoft's Windows 10 changes many things, and some of those are not super popular. One of those deviations are the white (or neutral) title bars for certain apps. As it turns out, developers can choose the color when designing their app. However, if they do not specify a color, it just defaults to white. This behavior is slightly unexpected as some users expect it to match the accent color.

Thanks. Unfortunately that download limits you to that one theme as is. The two things I miss most (as regards this particular issue) are the title bar colors and app window colors (ie, I use cyan as the backround color in Outlook, Directory Opus & Explorer, etc). I'm going to try to create a couple of themes on a W7 system and port them over to a W10 system & see what happens.

[Computer_Commando]

They did work too great for me either.  There are other ones out there if you search for them.  The worst feature is the black taskbar which Classic Shell should fix.  Am waiting for the released version.

BTW, do you do Microsoft Account login or Local Account login?  MS Account is handy if more than 1 computer, the settings are sync'd across all.  I do the same for Firefox, bookmark created on one computer shows up on all computers.

[Allan]

I use MS Account login.

This worked for me for the title bar color: http://betanews.com/2015/07/13/how-to-change-title-bar-color-windows-10/

Actually, I just downloaded the theme, extracted it, and added it to the themes folder - didn't do any of the other stuff. Then had to do a lot of tweaking to get things close to how I like them - but it's better than white title bars (at least for me).

[BC_Programmer]

I've found that even with that tweak in place that inactive windows sometimes have their text captions boxed in gray. Quite strange. Still preferred to the white title bars, myself.

speaking of syncing, What happened when I made the tweak originally was (apparently) that the theme file was synced to my Windows 8.1 systems which had a very odd effect.

[Computer_Commando]

This one is killing me on my tablet:  http://www.windows10forums.com/threads/password-after-waking-from-sleep.1363/

[Allan]

Any thoughts on how to change the taskbar icon to white text?

[Salmon Trout]

Any thoughts on how to change the taskbar icon to white text?

Did you mean the title bar text? I'd like to know that too.

[Allan]

No, the taskbar. I want to change the color of the taskbar to a darker color, but the text on the app "icons" remains black.

[BC_Programmer]

No, the taskbar. I want to change the color of the taskbar to a darker color, but the text on the app "icons" remains black.

I have my taskbar in Win10 (and win8, really) set to show small icons and text. The text is White on my Windows 10 systems. I'm not even sure how I would make it black.

[Allan]

That's interesting. I also use small icons and the text is black.

[Computer_Commando]

No, the taskbar. I want to change the color of the taskbar to a darker color, but the text on the app "icons" remains black.

Taskbar - Settings--Personalization--Colors--Show color on Start, taskbar, and action center ----Turn OFF.
App Icons -  don't know what you mean but app "icons" on the taskbar have no text, unless you hover over the running ones on the right-hand side & then it's black text on a white background.

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[Salmon Trout]

Notification area icons


Taskbar buttons (setting: Combine when taskbar is full or Never combine)


Combined taskbar buttons (when bar is full or setting is Always combine)

[Allan]

CC - you have it set for always combine/hide labels. I have it set to combine when taskbar is full. That's the difference in the type of icons. I prefer the text.

[Allan]

You beat me by 43 seconds!!!!

[Computer_Commando]

CC - you have it set for always combine/hide labels. I have it set to combine when taskbar is full. That's the difference in the type of icons. I prefer the text.

My laptop is different from my desktop & is white text on a grey background with black taskbar.  It looks almost like ST's.