I have background as a solid color, windows dark mode, transparency on, a custom accent color and the boxes to show the accent color on start, taskbar, action centre, title bars and windows borders are all checked. Of these, neither the start menu nor action centre adopt the specified color. They stay blue, which appears to be windows default color. I cannot find a way to fix this. It appears to be a corrupted profile - if I create a new profile with the same settings, the start menu and action centre adopt the color correctly. I dont want to create a new profile if I can avoid it as it otherwise works. Any ideas where to look to fix this?
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The thread discusses a user experiencing issues with the Windows start menu and action center not displaying the custom accent color, instead remaining blue. Despite adjusting registry settings like "ColorPrevalence," the problem persists, suggesting a possible profile corruption. The overall sentiment indicates the user is troubleshooting potential underlying causes but has not found a definitive solution yet.
The thread discusses a user experiencing issues with the Windows start menu and action center not displaying the custom accent color, instead remaining blue. Despite adjusting registry settings like "ColorPrevalence," the problem persists, suggesting a possible profile corruption. The overall sentiment indicates the user is troubleshooting potential underlying causes but has not found a definitive solution yet.
Thanks. Done before; it is set to 1 and I dont think that is the issue. Setting ColorPrevalence changes the behavior of the start menu and access center (no color or color) as expected EXCEPT that the color which appears when it is set to 1 is the wrong one. What I am looking for is the source of this setting whereby the color is blue rather than the one specified.
When colors get changed these are all the values that get changed
| HKU\SID\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Themes\Personalize\ColorPrevalence |
| HKU\SID\Software\Microsoft\Windows\DWM\AccentColor - Color |
| HKU\SID\Software\Microsoft\Windows\DWM\ColorizationAfterglow |
| HKU\SID\Software\Microsoft\Windows\DWM\ColorizationAfterglowBalance |
| HKU\SID\Software\Microsoft\Windows\DWM\ColorizationBlurBalance |
| HKU\SID\Software\Microsoft\Windows\DWM\ColorizationColor -Color for glass |
| HKU\SID\Software\Microsoft\Windows\DWM\ColorizationColorBalance |
| HKU\SID\Software\Microsoft\Windows\DWM\ColorizationGlassAttribute |
| HKU\SID\Software\Microsoft\Windows\DWM\ColorPrevalence This is for the start,taskbar and action center |
| HKU\SID\Software\Microsoft\Windows\DWM\EnableWindowColorization This is for title bars and windows borders |
Thanks again. I have fiddled around with these quite a bit, including deleting these keys and importing known good ones from another machine. The colors of the donor machine are adopted except for the start menu and action center. It is quite mysterious.
