Taskbar is an important design element of Windows 10, which contains shortcuts of running and fixed applications and folders. Its standard appearance and color may arrange far from all users, and therefore today we will tell how to change it.
Method 3: Editing Registry
Advanced users to achieve the result obtained when performing the previous method can contact the "Registry Editor" built into Windows. With its help, it can be done so that the color change is applied only to the taskbar, but not to the "Start" menu and the "Notifications Center" menu, which is the most accurate decision of our today's task. Consider both options.
Changing the color only taskbar
- Follow the steps from the method 2 of this article or the instructions presented above, then run the registry editor and go to it on the next way:
Computer \ HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Themes \ Personalize
- Double click LKM Run the parameter ColorPrevalence . Change the default value (usually indicated 0 or 1) on 2. After that, click "OK" in order to change the changes to take effect.
- Exit the system and log in to it or simply restart the PC. The color you choose will be applied only to the taskbar, and the "Start" and "Center of Notifications" will return its former look.
If you need to roll back the changes made in the second step, simply change the value of the ColorPrevalence parameter to the one that has been established initially for it - 0 or 1.
How to make a transparent task panel
In addition to the direct "repainting" of the taskbar in any of the system supported by the system, it can be also transparent, partially or completely - depends on the funds used. There is no direct relationship to the task under consideration, but thus the panel can be given the color of wallpaper on the desktop, as they will be behind it. Learn more about what and how to do this should be done, the instruction below will help the reference below. In addition, one of the methods considered in it allows you to do the same thing that we considered in the second part of the previous one - not "painting" the start menu and the "notification center".
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Conclusion
We looked at all possible ways to change the color of the taskbar in Windows 10, as well as a couple of lifhacks, by which you can make it so that other elements of the operating system are "repainted."