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How to Change Taskbar Color in Windows?

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The taskbar is an access point to programs which appear on your desktop. Taskbar features on Windows allow users to issue commands, access resources, and view program status directly from the taskbar. The taskbar is an access point to programs that appear on your desktop even when the programs are minimized. Such programs are meant to be present on your desktop. The taskbar allows you to see the primary windows and certain secondary windows open on your desktop and quickly switch between them.

Features of the Windows Taskbar:

Taskbar buttons are the name for the controls on the taskbar. Windows include a taskbar button for each primary window (or secondary window with certain properties) that a program creation, and it removes the button when the window closes. These new taskbar button characteristics can be used by programs created for Windows 7:

  • Even when the program isn’t operating, Jump Lists offer quick access to frequently used locations (such as files, folders, and links) and actions via a context menu accessible via the program’s taskbar button and Start menu item.
  • Quick access to frequently used commands for a certain window is made possible by thumbnail toolbars. The taskbar button’s thumbnail displays’ toolbar thumbnails.
  • The taskbar button icon for the software displays overlay icons to indicate status changes.
  • On the program’s taskbar button, progress bars display the status of lengthy tasks.
  • Users can go immediately to window tabs, project windows, multiple-document interface (MDI) child windows, and secondary windows by using the taskbar button thumbnails for sub-window taskbar buttons.
  • In order to enable rapid access to programs even when they aren’t operating, users can pin program buttons to the taskbar.

How to use the taskbar on Windows:

More than just viewing your apps and the time may be done with the taskbar. You may alter the color, add your favorite apps, and rearrange the taskbar buttons to make it uniquely yours. Additionally, you can check the charge of your battery and in a moment reduce all running programs in order to view your desktop.

Change your taskbar settings:

From the taskbar itself, customize the taskbar. Use the Taskbar settings to modify several characteristics of the taskbar at once. Taskbar settings can be accessed by right-clicking or holding down any empty space on the taskbar.

Windows Taskbar

 

Scroll through the taskbar settings to see options like customization, resizing, icon selection, battery information, and more.

Change Taskbar Color On Windows:

To change the color of the Taskbar, follow these Steps:

Step 1: Click on “Start” and “Settings”. 

 

 

Step 2. In “Settings”, Select “Personalization” and then click on “Colors”.

 

Step 3. In “Colors”, Click on the “Choose your color” drop-down and Select “Custom”.

 

Step 4. Under “Choose your default Windows mode”, choose “Dark” (You won’t get an option to put the color in taskbar if you choose “Light”). 

 

Step 5. Now, you can select the color from “Windows color” or you can Click on “Custom color” and use the “color picker” to select your custom color.

 

 

Step 6. Check the box “start, taskbar, and action center”.

 

Step 7. Now, the color decided by you will reflect on the “Taskbar”.   

Note: To change the color of the taskbar, you have to select “Dark”, Under the “Choose your default Windows mode” option. Because if you decide “Light” then Checkbox “start, taskbar, and action center” will not get active.            


Last Updated : 16 Mar, 2023
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