Windows 10 - Personalization - Background and Accent Colors do not apply

Question

_{Friday, April 29, 2016 3:12 PM}

Hi,

We are running Windows 10 Enterprise LTSB

When I set the group policy Computer Configuration \ Admin Templates \ Control Panel \ Personalization \ Force a specific background and accent color

I am setting Start Background Color:  #000000  expecting it to be black

And Accent Color: #FF0000 expecting it to be red

I can see these values get set in the registry in the correct place HKLM\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Personlization however it does not change the colors.

My colors remain the same as when they where originally set manually

If I go to personalization and try and change the color it lets me change the background color in real time.

The only way I can change the accent color, is delete the key named

PersonalColors_Accent

This then turns the accent to black .

If I recreate the key, it turns back to the color not intended (last color set)

I cant change this manually

Then if I delete

PersonalColors_Background

I can change the accent freely

On reboot the reg keys will return (as expected) and it will not enforce the colors in those keys, just keep the ones last set manually as above.

If I delete the background color reg key first instead that allows you to change both accent and desktop colors manually in personalization control panel even with the accent key present.

I have tried other colors which also don't work but thought the two above seem pretty standard and I found them on a post so they seem valid.

Cant find any answers out there.

Any help would be appreciated spending so much time trying to achieve a simple task.

Thanks

All replies (8)

_{Monday, May 2, 2016 6:10 AM}

Hi Mikey-Gee,

Currently I didn't find any helpful registries or ways to deploy accent color.

There are blogs talking about this part, please see if that would help:

http://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/3380-color-appearance-change-windows-10-a.html

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_{Thursday, July 28, 2016 10:20 AM}

The methods listed in the blog did not help.

_{Thursday, July 28, 2016 4:13 PM}

Well here is some information that may explain at least part of the problem. The particular policy setting you're attempting to use is supported on "Windows Server 2012 R2 Windows 8.1 or Windows RT 8.1 only" so it is expected behavior. I don't see a GP setting for this that would apply to Windows 10, unfortunately.

_{Thursday, August 11, 2016 12:23 PM}

Thanks for confirming that, if anyone does find a method for Windows 10 in the future let me know.

Would be nice to tick the one final box that is annoying me.

_{Monday, October 3, 2016 8:43 AM}

Thanks for confirming that, if anyone does find a method for Windows 10 in the future let me know.

Would be nice to tick the one final box that is annoying me.

Found a solution for this?

_{Thursday, January 12, 2017 1:14 PM}

So situation is still same or there is any progress? I am facing similar issue. 

_{Monday, February 6, 2017 5:19 PM}

I am having the same issue.

Setting the group policy to force the dark blue color for background but it does not take effect.

Any solution anyone?

Thanks,

-- A human.

_{Monday, March 5, 2018 9:29 PM}

So it's been a few years anyone figure this out yet?