Windows 8.1 logon background color

While most users don't even pay attention to the color of the logon screen, there is a category of users myself included who prefer to customize the OS according to their preferences in a more flexible way. Those users are not happy with the default blue color of the logon screen and may want to change it to a desired color. Here is a simple tutorial to show you how you can change the color of the logon screen. As a bonus, it allows you to change the Start Screen color and Accent color on the fly from the same window.

Start Screen Color Tuner is freeware and a portable app which supports Windows 8. It does not require to be installed or uninstalled. Start Screen Color Tuner supports multiple languages and can be translated via a simple text file. Start Screen Color Tuner is available for download from here for free. Winaero greatly relies on your support.

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It won't take a lot from you, but it will help us grow. Thanks for your support! Sergey Tkachenko is a software developer from Russia who started Winaero back in On this blog, Sergey is writing about everything connected to Microsoft, Windows and popular software. Follow him on Telegram , Twitter , and YouTube. View all posts by Sergey Tkachenko. It seems the executables in both x64 and x86 are bit version only. Please check. Great tool, but how do I change lock screen image of login screen?

Tricks from Windows 8 do not work. I have been looking for this in web for an hour before I hit this post. They also remove personalization option from 8. Brian , this will change YOUR logon screen color. If you will sign out from your account, you will see the default logon screen with default blue color. Hey- Thanks for the Tool. Especially Black background would be nice I think. But the closest to black is a dark grey. Microsoft has banned the Black color from using as the Start screen background.

I do not know why. I am un able to use the tool policies , but need to be able to change the color of the screen… do you know the registry hive to make this cgange… or where your application makes the change in order to manually make the change without the tool? We use a Windows 8. Extend the display to a second display.

Enable "Force a specific background and accent color" and type in the colors in hex you can test FFFF00 and 00FF00 if you want it to be very obvious that it's working. Log out, and you should see it. Edit: There are color combinations that are disallowed see the description in gpedit.

This change applies to all users and when a user is not logged in. If you want some place to look up hex codes for colors, this site is reasonable. Since I'm already logged in it uses my colors, but only after I'm logged in,. That's not what I am looking for I looking for to change the default color of Windows 8. Like I said before, there was a default color that you need to choose before finishing installing and setting the OS.

I do not understand why Microsoft make it so difficult to switch to another default color when you are not logon. I think the option you're thinking of just sets your color as the first user, not a system-wide default color. Windows 7 had a default login screen:.

First you need to get the colors you want to have set on the login screen. The easy way is to set the colors for the logged in user via Personalize then retrieve the hex value for each color from the registry:. Once you have the values, set the colors for the system in the registry. This changes the colors on the actual login screen. If the lock screen image is missing and just have the single color background, your lock screen image is likely too big.

Shrink it down and try again. Trust me, I can work with the registry Search In. Change the color of the login screen in Windows 8. Share More sharing options Followers 0. Prev 1 2 Next Page 1 of 2. Recommended Posts. Posted September 23, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options LimeMaster Posted September 23, Max Norris Posted September 23, I choose as my desktop background color dark green and the login screen still dark blue :.

Hmm, odd! Ironman Posted September 23, You can force a specific color combination using Group Policy.