Policy

Prevent changing color scheme

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.

Policy
Pack Microsoft Windows
Category Control Panel / Personalization
Policy ID dda9ea0d78e2
Internal name CPL_Personalization_DisableColorSchemeChoice

Registry

Copy registry mappings

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System\NoColorChoice (enabled) = 1
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System\NoColorChoice (disabled) = 0

Policy notes

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.

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