Black Taskbar/Start Menu with Coloured Title Bars

[+Fahim S. MVC]

For some reason Microsoft decided to tie the colouring of title bars in 1511 to the colouring of the taskbar and start menu.  If like me you quite like a black taskbar and start menu but not white title bars, then there is a registry tweak that you can use.

http://www.windowscentral.com/windows-10-colored-title-bars-default-dark-theme

Works really well for me.  Obviously I don't endorse this and you do it at your own risk.

[PUC_Snakeman]

Yep. You can even create .reg files, such as:

====================================================================================================
Windows 10 - Enable Title Bar Color.reg

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\DWM]
"ColorPrevalence"=dword:00000001

====================================================================================================
Windows 10 - Disable Title Bar Color.reg

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\DWM]
"ColorPrevalence"=dword:00000000

====================================================================================================

... so you can easily re-enable this fix, whenever you decide to change some of your color options.

[Flawedspirit]

Very nice. Thanks. Here's hoping they begin to include a little more granularity in their color options in later builds. The presence of registry values that allow for that is somewhat encouraging.

[DeusProto]

For those who prefer CLI:

From admin prompt, to enable:
REG ADD "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\DWM" /v "ColorPrevalence" /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f
To disable:
REG ADD "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\DWM" /v "ColorPrevalence" /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f

[bluesman86]

For some reason Microsoft decided to tie the colouring of title bars in 1511 to the colouring of the taskbar and start menu.  If like me you quite like a black taskbar and start menu but not white title bars, then there is a registry tweak that you can use.

http://www.windowscentral.com/windows-10-colored-title-bars-default-dark-theme

Works really well for me.  Obviously I don't endorse this and you do it at your own risk.

I put the color just on really dark grey. It gives me black titlebars + black start bar. Looks sweet enough to me.