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How to Add Windows Color And Appearance in Windows 7


| 14 | July | 2020 | By M Raaz Leave a Comment


When you right-click on your Windows 7 and select personalize, in the windows color & appearance, you are presented with a set of 8 colors to choose from this section. This can be used to change the color of windows, the start menu and the taskbar by picking one of these available color schemes.

Add Windows Color

However, you can add a custom color scheme to it, or you can also create your own color set using the color mixer, should you wish to do.

Here we are going to direct you how can do it. This requires the following:

  1. Restorator
  2. Registry Editor : regedit
  3. Image Editing Software like Adobe Photoshop

First, run Restorator and open themecpl.dll (located under C:\Windrows\System32) and navigate to BITMAP.

Open the extracted bitmap image in Photoshop and click on Image > Adjustments > Hue/Saturation or press CTRL+U.

Now select the bitmap file, drag, and drop at the highlighted area.

Now run regedit to open the Registry Editor and Navigate to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ControlPanel\Glass Colorization\Swatches

Create a key with a GUID name … it must be unique among all GUIDs existing under Swatches
(Simple trick: Copy any GUID like {FD81078C-1B36-4595-A92E-91F05C4FA5DC} and change one of the character or digit … I am sure, it will be 99.99 % unique. The new GUID is {FD81078C-1B36-4595-A92E-91F05C4FA5DD})

Create a DWORD (32-bit) value and named to Color.
(Simple trick: Right Click on desktop and navigate Personalize > Windows color and appearance, now set your favorite color using color mixer. Run Registry Editor and navigate to: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\DWM and click on ColorizationColor and copy its value and paste in Color DWORD value)

Create a DWORD (32-bit) value and named NameId. Set the value to 69 in decimal. This registry value reads the string from themecpl.dll.mui file located under C:\Windows\System32\en-US. 

Set the value to 103 (The ID or name of bitmap resource file that has been added to themecpl.dll.)

Create a DWORD (32-bit) value and named PreviewOrder. Set the value to 9; which tell the color scheme added at 9th number.

Create a Expandable String value (REG_EXPAND_SZ) and named Resource. Set the value to themecpl.dll.

Exit. Reboot.



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