Policy

Force a specific background and accent color

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.

Policy
Pack Microsoft Windows
Category Control Panel / Personalization
Policy ID e0c7b004bf72
Internal name CPL_Personalization_PersonalColors

Registry

Copy registry mappings

HKLM\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Personalization\PersonalColors_Background
HKLM\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Personalization\PersonalColors_Accent

Policy notes

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.

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