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Instead this post is a collection of tips that should help you find the solution to your screen brightness problem. Therefore I do not pretend to provide the solution to your screen brightness problem. To avoid or reduce eye strain it is therefore essential to reduce screen brightness and text-background contrast.Īlthough glare is a common cause of eye strain, each person seems to react differently to glare exposure. However, high brightness contrast is the definition of glare which is a common cause of eye strain. White background normally covers most of your screen’s surface to contrast with black text.
#Windows 10 dull colors how to#
This post should help you solve your screen brightness and text-to-background eye strain problem principally by showing you how to change background color and text color in Windows 7 (affects Word, Excel, and other MS Office programs), Adobe Reader, Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, … Windows 10 users see this post. Either way extended computer screen viewing will likely cause eye strain (eye fatigue or computer vision syndrome). If you’re interested to know what is that step, let me know in the comments, and I might add an information about it here later on, if enough readers are interested.How to reduce screen brightness is important if you have light sensitive eyes (some level of photophobia), or if you use your computer in dimmer environment. But usually that’s not enough, an extra step has to be done to disable that “New auto-color accent algorithm”. By disabling this setting, we bring up the alternative color calculation algorithm. The main registry value that is being created by Windows 10 Color Control is UseNewAutoColorAccentAlgorithm of type DWORD, which is being created with the value of zero in the following branch: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Accentīy default, the value doesn’t exist, and the setting is being treated as enabled, i.e. Will set the accent color to red, and the DWM color to green. The colors must be specified as hex triplets.įor example, the command: "Windows 10 color control.exe" -accent_color FF0000 -dwm_color 00FF00 You can use -accent_color and -dwm_color to set the accent and/or DWM color and exit.
#Windows 10 dull colors code#
Windows 10 color control.zip (112.8 kB) Source code The original Windows 10 calculation algorithm is referred to as the “New auto-color accent algorithm”, according to the undocumented registry value name. I wrote a quick application, Windows 10 Color Control, which allows you to modify the Windows 10 colors, and to get this alternative color calculation algorithm. You can see the difference in the example image above. Fortunately, I have discovered that there’s an undocumented registry key which makes explorer use an alternative color calculation algorithm, which in turn produces brighter colors. I searched, but haven’t found a straightforward way to have a bright taskbar on Windows 10. In addition, no matter which color you’ll pick, the taskbar will end up being dark. Windows 10 allows you to customize the taskbar and start menu colors, but it provides only a limited set of predefined colors. Note: Things work differently in newer Windows 10 versions, and this tool might not be relevant anymore.