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Quick access. Search related threads. Remove From My Forums. Answered by:. Archived Forums. Windows 8. Hi, here's what I've found which appears to offer a way to keep the background colours for most programs explorer excluded of course!!
Comments welcome as I'm no expert, and forgive me if I completely wrong. Set a background colour. As we know:. If some theme colors are changed then Microsoft Office programs may need to be restarted to get them. For example, the Word styles don't always take the new colors until Word is restarted. Restore background colours after resume from hibernate. This frustrated me for a long time. A number have commented on the loss of background colour after resuming from hibernation and I've seen no solution so far.
Once you can see your background colour in programs such as Wordpad, and probably your start menu search box, save the theme. H ere's my way to overcome the irritating loss of background colour on resume from hibernate.
Create 2 copies of your preferred theme, with the background colour set in the registry entries as above. Those are 'normal' Windows theme, no theme tools like Windows Blinds or anything like that.
Now write a simple script Autohotkey for example which is run on logon. That's assuming you get a logon prompt on resume from hibernate, else you'll have try to do sthg clever with task scheduler or find a test for displayed background colour, for example to trigger the script.
That script simply swaps the theme- but it's the SAME theme. That restores the background colour. Just tried it.. Of course all that still leaves explorer whiter than white.. Throw in Aeroglass and y'z shadow to add shadows - and I'd have added an image except this requires a URL to do, not an upload, so imagine two partly overlaid instances of Wordpad, Aero frames, shadow where one overlies the other, and pale yellow backgrounds.
Many thanks to David J Gibson whose post helped me to find the solutions. I have bit Windows 10 Home. These methods also work for Windows 8. This solution allows you to permanently set the background color in most programs Notepad, Word, etc. I am assuming that you are not using a contrast theme of Windows. Close the Task Manager. It is possible to set the background color to gray in Windows Explorer and in other programs Word, Notepad, etc. The method involves only the control panel and editing the registry.
Logging off and in again restores the theme. Now all backgrounds turned black and text color yellow. We will fix that in a moment.
Change the desktop wallpaper to your previous settings by selecting the option "Background" in the left panel perhaps you had a slideshow or whatever. All done. Now you will have a nice gray background color in most program windows such as Word, Notepad, simple webpages, etc. The background is also gray in Windows Explorer. If you try the above method under a standard Windows theme not a contrast theme , then the background color will be white in Windows Exporer and gray in most other programs such as Word or Notepad in this case, at step 4 above, you will need to edit the registry folder Standard instead of HighContrast because you are using a Standard theme.
You can use black as text color under the standard Windows themes. I tried software applications called WindowBlinds and Xplorer2, which allow you to use various background colors or patterns in Windows Explorer actually, Xplorer2 is a replacement for Windows Explorer. Both are shareware. I do not recommend these applications and suggest that you stick with the above solution.
It seriously messes with Windows system processes and destabilizes Windows 8. My work involves serious multitasking, and with WindowBlinds, my computer crashes every other day either freezes or throws a blue screen event. Under bit Windows 8. Xplorer2: It is advertised as a replacement for Windows Explorer. This option is better than WindowBlinds because it does not affect stability of the operating system.
Nonetheless, Xplorer2 crashes every few days for example, when I launch the Control Panel and has to be restarted and the executable process has to be terminated using the Task Manager.
This is tolerable but a bit annoying. Another reason I wanted to test Xplorer2 is that the search option in Windows Explorer fails to find files when your search term is inside a file name not at the beginning. Eventually, I figured out that you need to insert an asterisk before a search term, if you want to search inside file names in Windows Explorer. Thanks for this info about the registry. I'm pretty new to Windows8. I've always had my window set to a pale yellow - much easier on the eyes.
Now to find a registry backup or will the system restore point work? This step 1 is unreliable and stops working for no reason even without a log off or screen saver. I am not even sure that this step is necessary. Step 2 below seems to be the permanent solution. Rebooting is not necessary. After you apply your unsaved or saved theme that contains step 1, the next time it fails, it will fall back on step 2 for good.
Now I have a nice gray background color in most program windows such as Word, Notepad, simple webpages, etc. The background is still white in Windows Explorer, but that is not a serious problem for me. This "fixes" the issue of the window Background color set in the Theme and set in the Registry from reseting every time you log off and sleep windows. The second registry key change works great and the color stays on The color I got was nothing like it.
I had to reverse the order once again to "" RGB 83 0 to get the color I wanted. Ricks "" or 99 99 99 is actually RGB and the system cannot misread it. One solution allows you to permanently set the background color in most programs Notepad, Word, etc. The second solution allows you to set the background color to gray in Windows Explorer and most other programs Word, Notepad, etc.
Hi, for explorer windows - including the control panel- there is an amazingly simple and elegant solution which I have just coincidentally discovered.
This includes a host of functions including appearance settings, which allows you to easily set the colour of various areas of the explorer window. And it seems extraordinarily stable -so far- unlike another fork of Qttabbar I've tried.
Oh, and you can even have 3 tabbed panes.. Many many options. The background colour of most other programs can be set with the small registry hack as above, and I've described above how to retain that colour when resuming from sleep or hibernation. That leaves just a few programs whose background colour you may need to change individually, such as Firefox. However, there will still be some left! I've read this entire thread and have gone through all the suggested hacks, tweaks, and registry, etc.
All I want to do is just change the title bar TEXT colour so that I can see it when using black for my window borders and taskbar. I still have black on black and it's so annoying. Yes, I'm still on Windows 8. I had too many issues with 10, so I'm staying on 8. On another note, I'd like to know how dj got his UI to look as it does.
Anyone know what program he's using? You may have to scroll up half way through this thread to see it. This site isn't allowing me to quote a picture link of his. Anyway, it's the post by dj posted on August 10th, You go to "personalize", then"desktop background", then click on "change background colour" you may have to scroll down a bit, but it's there.
This should work. I'm running Windows 8. The feature is there and happily still working. I followed directions when I first began to use Windows 8 - upgraded to 10 to attempt to have black, readable fonts for all the drop down menus. I'm replying to you because the site I used for instructions also gave the colors in 9 digit codes, 3 groups of 3 numerals.
I think I ended up with black, but many of the icons in Microsoft Office and on the regular desktop are quite different, as if they were in very low pixel count. I've been too busy using computers to want to do any more fixes. I was over my head in making changes in the registry. I kept careful notes--at that time--but have no idea where those notes went. When knowledgeable friends attempt to help me and discover I've made changes in the registry--where and how I don't remember--they give up on me.
Of course. What I want to do is to return all the registry settings to default and start over trying to make text legible for me.
However, I bought it online, so have no disk to reinstall in case all that disappears. Office Office Exchange Server. Not an IT pro? System Center TechCenter. Sign in. United States English. Ask a question. Quick access. Search related threads.
Remove From My Forums. Asked by:. Archived Forums. Windows 8. Use this forum to discuss miscellaneous issues that cannot be covered in any other Windows 8. Sign in to vote. I recently installed Windows 8 and on thing which I always do on my Windows environment is to change the background color of the windows to a light gray.
However I cant figure out how to do this on Windows 8, can someone point me in the right direction please. Tuesday, September 4, PM. I already tried that but in the previous version there was an option to change the color scheme, but in Windows 8 this seems to be lacking. Wednesday, September 5, AM. Yes the desktop windows Windows 8 Enterprise. Wednesday, September 5, PM. Welcome to random feature removal.
Advanced Appearance settings dialog is removed in Windows 8 under the false pretext that with Classic theme also gone, they were no longer required. Even if many of the settings were applicable for Aero-based themes, they don't care much customization now.
It's Microsoft's way and no other. So this feature is completely removed there is no way get back, by enabling some features even? Report Error. Your message has been sent to W3Schools.
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