Task bar color

By following the Personalize prompt on the desktop, I reach "Windows color and appearance" but at that point I don't know (can't find) how to change the color of the task bar. I might add that I don't understand the meaning of most of the choices in the menu on that window. Any hints gratefully accepted.

Tony,

> Personalization > Window Colour (@ the bottom of the window between Desktop Background & Sounds). Select the colour you want & it will apply to the Taskbar, also. Here you can, also, set the transparency level.

Cheers,
Drew

I selected "Frost", which did change the color of the "Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Personalization\Window Color and Appearance" window, but did not change the dark grey color of the task bar.

Tony,

After you selected Frost, did you hit the Save button @ the bottom of the window??

Drew

I did, indeed, Drew, but no joy. For what it's worth, the brightness and/or saturations controls do change the task bar color, but the hue control does not.

I think you may be @ the wrong spot.

Rt Clk on Desktop screen > Personalize > Window Color (bottom of window), select, click on, desired colour, now, @ bottom right of window hit Save button

The above should (will) change the Taskbar to the same colour, as selected.

None of those parameters where I'm talking.

Drew

Your faith in W7's functions does you honor, Drew, but it fails in my case. I have faithfully performed the exact steps you list above, with the results I described earlier, i.e., the border of the window adopts the color I specify, but the task bar color does not.

Go figure....

So sorry. I trust some1 else will have the solution.

Drew

Hi Tony. Are you running a custom (3rd party) theme? Can you give us a little screenshot / snip of your problem?

It's clear by now that I have plunged over my head in trying to adjust the colors of my displays. If I knew how, I would just as soon restore the whole shebang to its default values and step more gingerly in the future. I also have to figure out how to send a screenshot.