So you get different background colors for different tiles.īut did you know you can change or customize tile’s background color according to your requirements? Yes, you can change a lot of things to customize Start Screen tiles appearance in Windows 8.1 operating system. In other words, the tile pulls its background color from the associated program’s icon color. Now each tile has different background color based on the associated program’s icon. But with the release of Windows 8.1, Microsoft changed this behavior. When Microsoft introduced Start Screen and tiles feature in Windows 8 operating system, all tiles had same background color based on Start Screen’s background color. How to show taskbar on Windows 8/8.1 Start screen guide might also interest you.UPDATE: This method also works in Windows 10. That’s it!įrom now on, whenever your desktop background changes, not only window border and taskbar get a new color but also your Start screen background. Click Color option in the Personalization window and then select the first color tile titled Automatic and then click Apply button to configure Windows to automatically change window border and taskbar color to match the desktop background color. Step 4: Skip this step if the color is already set to Automatic.
To do this, right-click on desktop, click Personalize to open Personalization window, click on a theme with multiple backgrounds (for example, Lines and colors theme). Step 3: Next step is to apply a new theme with multiple backgrounds and set the color to Automatic. Right-click on the ColorSync icon in the system tray and then click on Aero –> Start Screen option. Step 2: By default, ColorSync sets Start screen background color as window border color. Step 1: Download ColorSync from this page, extract the contents of zip file to get ColorSync executable, and then double-click on the executable to run the same.
NOTE: This method doesn’t work if you have configured Windows 8.1 to set desktop background picture as Start background image.
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