Policy

Force a specific background and accent color

Windows 11 25H2

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Policy overview

Key metadata and intent for this policy.

ClassComputer
CategoryControl Panel > Personalization
Supported onWindows Server 2012 R2, Windows 8.1 or Windows RT 8.1 only

Supported OS tags: Windows81, WindowsRT81, WindowsServer2012R2

Forces Windows to use the specified colors for the background and accent. The color values are specified in hex as #RGB. By default, users can change the background and accent colors. If this setting is enabled, the background and accent colors of Windows will be set to the specified colors and users cannot change those colors. This setting will not be applied if the specified colors do not meet a contrast ratio of 2:1 with white text.

Internal name
CPL_Personalization_PersonalColors
Policy ID
e0c7b004bf72
Elements
2

Registry values

How enabled and disabled states update the registry.

No explicit registry values are set for enabled or disabled states.

Policy elements

Inputs and configuration options exposed by this policy.

ElementTypeRegistry mappingConstraints & behavior
Start background color:
ID PersonalColors_Background
text
HKLM\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Personalization\PersonalColors_Background
Type REG_SZ
None
Accent color:
ID PersonalColors_Accent
text
HKLM\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Personalization\PersonalColors_Accent
Type REG_SZ
None

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