The Personalization section of Windows offers several themes, backgrounds and colors to change the appearance of the operating system, but its interface is anything but friendly, and locating every option is a tedious process. If you want more color for your Windows sessions but wasting time in the settings menu is not in your plans, you should download a copy of WinPaletter, which concentrates multiple parameters in a single place.
The story repeats itself: in the face of the serious restrictions in the Windows interface in its latest versions, the community responded with dedicated tools to restore missing options and improve the customization profile. Even something as simple as changing the font size requires an external application, and Microsoft's decision is to keep reducing the number of available settings. In the name of uniformity, the Windows experience is more limited than ever.
Fortunately, there are things like WinPaletter that help us regain control. The customization of colors and themes in Windows 10/11 is still there, but the chaos of menus and buried options definitely doesn't help the user. What WinPaletter does is bring to the fore the main color and transparency parameters, and enable a real-time preview to visualize the changes.
How to Change Windows Colors with WinPaletter
The first thing I recommend in WinPaletter is to save the detected configuration as a profile that allows us to return at any time if the results are not satisfactory. The most important values (under the Toggles category) are applying dark mode for Windows and apps, using transparencies, and extending the accent color to the start menu, taskbar, and notification center.
The Titlebars category limits its scope to the two possible title bar colors (active or inactive), while Accents reaches the start menu, links, icons, text selection, and much more. It is possible that some of these options do not work correctly (Windows is a moving target after all), but nothing is lost by trying. The preview system is excellent, and helps us visualize each color change on the interface before applying it completely.
The last two sections are Win32UI Elements and LogonUI Screen. As their names suggest, here we can customize the colors of classic Win32 applications and windows, and the start screen. Once again, not all settings work due to Microsoft's constant intervention, but it is good to know that we can still access them. WinPaletter is free and open source, and has two technical details: On one hand, Avast reports a false positive, and on the other, the developer warns that we should not use it in preview editions of Windows 11.
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