Policy

Prevent changing color scheme

Windows 11 25H2

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Policy overview

Key metadata and intent for this policy.

ClassUser
CategoryControl Panel > Personalization
Supported onWindows Server 2008, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, and Windows XP

Supported OS tags: WindowsServer2003, WindowsServer2008, WindowsVista, WindowsXP

This setting forces the theme color scheme to be the default color scheme. If you enable this setting, a user cannot change the color scheme of the current desktop theme. If you disable or do not configure this setting, a user may change the color scheme of the current desktop theme. For Windows 7 and later, use the "Prevent changing color and appearance" setting.

Internal name
CPL_Personalization_DisableColorSchemeChoice
Policy ID
dda9ea0d78e2
Elements
0

Registry values

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Registry locationTypeEnabled valueDisabled value
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System\NoColorChoiceREG_DWORD
1
0

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