If at any time, you want to return to the default settings, simply open the Settings app, go to the Personalization group of settings and in the Color tab, toggle the ‘Automatically pick an accent color from my background’ option. It results in the color you select for these elements to not appear as it did when you selected it. Windows 10 Color Control lets you disable this by checking the ‘Disable new auto-color accent algorithm’ option. Type Settings in the search bar and choose the Settings option, as the following image is showing. In Windows 10, the color you set for the Taskbar and Start menu is darkened somewhat. To personalize window borders and shadows on Windows 10, follow this procedure step by step: Click the Search button. Repeat for the Taskbar and Start menu click the ‘Pick new color…’ button for ‘Accent color’ and choose. Click the ‘Pick new color…’ button and from the color selection spectrum, choose whatever color you want to set. The DMW color is the color for the windows border. Launch the app and start selecting the colors you want. The app can also turn Off the dark accent effect that’s darkens whatever color you set for the taskbar and start menu.

You can use the RGB value of the color to find the perfect one and it also lets you select and set a different color for the windows borders and the taskbar and Start menu. The only (mediocre) workaround I have found when the border color really bothers me, is to set the screen in grey levels, using the Color Filter keyboard shortcut (the filter itself can be defined in the top of the High Contrast settings panel). Meet Windows 10 Color Control, a tiny utility that lets you set ANY color for the Start menu and the taskbar. More specifically speaking, click the Search button on the taskbar, type taskbar in the empty box and select Change the color of your taskbar and window borders in the results. You can choose a different color for all these elements but the color selection is now very limited. Steps to change the color of taskbar and window border in Win 10: Step 1: Open Color and Appearance settings. The colored title bars are gone and the thin border around windows is fixed to be the same color as the taskbar and the Start menu. Before Windows 10 title bars had colors and you could select any color for the taskbar and the Start menu but that’s no longer an option. Windows 10 has drastically changed color customization.

Windows 10 change border color