If you want to automatically choose a color Automatically pick an accent color from my background. Under Choose your default Windows mode, click Dark. Switching from Light to Dark or the other way around will immediately change your taskbar color. Click the Choose your color drop down, and select Custom. DWM sets the color for all windows, that's why you can modify it with the DWM APIs (albeit an undocumented, unsupported one). Here’s how to change the taskbar color in Windows 10: Click Start > Settings. Now, under Choose your accent color, click on a tile to set it as the color for your taskbar, Start menu and action center.ħ. The taskbar window doesn't have its own special color. To turn it on, move the slider from left to right.Ħ. If the transparent color of Taskbar is chosen then you will find that the option is turned off. In the right panel, look out for the option Show color only on Start, Taskbar and Action Center.ĥ. Steps to Turn On or Off Show Color on Taskbar to match Desktop Background in Windows 10?Ĥ. However, the important thing to note is that you cannot separately choose colors for Start Menu, Taskbar, Action Center unless you use some third party tools or batch files to individually select colors. Windows 10 has provided the freedom to automatically choose the color based on your Desktop background. You can change the color of taskbar, Start and Action Center to match the color of the desktop background. In Windows 10, the Taskbar, Start Menu and Action Center is transparent with a mild black color.
