How to change task bar only color in Windows 8?

Question

Is there some way for me to set the task bar color at the bottom to a specific color independent of the color of the window border? For example, I want to keep the task bar color black, while keeping everything else blue.

Answer 1

This is possible by doing a registry entry value change with the following steps:

• Go to Personalize and change your color scheme for the taskbar to one you want.
• Then run regedit
• Navigate to: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\DWM
• Locate the key "EnableWindowColorization", and set its value to 0.
• Next, run the task manager, and locate a process named "Desktop Window Manager" under "Windows processes"
• End this task, and as it starts back up you will find your window color has gone back to default light grey, while your taskbar color has remained.

If you'd like a visual guide, here is the original source of this method: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MsebL7IDoA

Answer 2

For changing the color you need to go to Personalization interface.There you can change the color.

Answer 3

As far as I know, there is no setting in Windows 8 that allows you to do this, however there are third party apps that can.

for example, this app: http://www.thewindowsclub.com/add-color-effects-windows-7-taskbar-taskbar-color-effects

Can change the color of the task bar, and can even add an image as a background. It says that it is for Windows 7, but it also works for Windows 8 (I tested it). It requires .NET.