Changing the Color of text on task bar from black to white?

Question

_{Thursday, May 31, 2018 2:20 PM}

How do I change the task bar color from black to white. I accedently changed it to black while in high contrast settings. And now when I go back to "None" it made my text black which makes it difficult to see with a black task bar. How do I reset to default settings or change it to white.

All replies (7)

_{Thursday, May 31, 2018 3:07 PM}

Hi!

You can change back the color of your taskbar via Settings.

1) Right-click on desktop and then click Personalize option to Personalization section of Settings app.

2) In the left-pane, click Colors to see various settings on the right.

3) In here you will see your selected colors, pick the color you want.

4) On the right-side, you have the option Show color on Start, taskbar, and action center. You can turn the Automatically pick an accent color from my background setting on / off depending on what you want.

Hope this helps!

Best regards,
Leon

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_{Thursday, May 31, 2018 4:31 PM}

Thanks for the response. 

That changes the color of my task bar, but my text is still black. Do you know if there's a way to just change the text white?

_{Thursday, May 31, 2018 5:04 PM}

You can change the text color by following the steps below:

Click on **Windows **icon in your task bar > Settings > Personalization > Colors > scroll down to the bottom and click High Contrast Themes/Settings > choose one of the High Contrast Themes from the Choose a theme drop down menu. Then click on appropriate color fields and choose your colors.

Best regards,
Leon

Blog: https://thesystemcenterblog.com  LinkedIn:   

_{Friday, June 1, 2018 6:19 AM}



You may want to see this kind of interface:

It’s easy. Two steps:

1. Settings > Personalization > Colors >High contrast settings

2. turn on high contrast.

If you don’t want so high-contrast, only choose Dark mode on Choose your default app mode option

Have a try.

Regards

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_{Friday, September 21, 2018 12:48 AM}

Neither of these two solutions work for windows 10 fall creator version 1803.  Task bar text is black and I still cannot change it to white.

Burger2go

_{Thursday, February 21, 2019 10:25 AM}

Please try the following.

reg.exe add "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ThemeManager" /v "DllName" /t REG_EXPAND_SZ /d ^%SystemRoot^%\Resources\Themes\aero\aero.msstyles /f

Then sign off and on again.

Best regards, Marco

_{Monday, August 12, 2019 12:56 PM}

Delete your Windows OS profile and sing-in again