When you do, Windows 10 populates the appropriate registry key with the ancillary settings required to set the inactive title bar color. Caveatīefore you can use the Inactive Title Bar Color Settings HTA, you must set an active title bar from the Colors tab of the Personalization setting screen. The HTA relies on the ColorPalette.png file, so make sure both files are in the same folder when you run the HTA. To run this file, you'll have to rename the extension back to hta. To ensure a safe download that won't raise the ire of your AV program, I changed the file extension for the HTA to txt. SEE: Windows 10: The smart person's guide (Updated) The download So coming fresh off the revival of my HTML applications (HTAs) for changing Windows 10 screen savers, I decided to create a new HTA for setting the color of the inactive title bar.

While the registry hacks work perfectly, I wasn't satisfied.

I recently learned that you can indeed set the color of inactive title bars using registry hacks. Being able to once again set the color of active title bars made it easier to distinguish between active and inactive windows-but it would have been nice to set the color of inactive title bars as in the past. I described the new feature in the article The Windows 10 November Update: A look at the smaller details. In November 2015, Microsoft released a substantial update to the Windows 10 operating system, which, among other things, included the capability to set the color of the active title bar.

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