JANUARY 2022 PCWorld 75Then below that you
have to check boxes for
where you want the
accent colors to show
up: Start, Taskbar, and
action center and Title
bars and window
borders. That first check
box won’t be allowed
to change, however
unless you’ve set your
option to Dark mode.
If you go with a
Custom setup, then your
options change. First,
you get two new radio
buttons. The first allows you to choose Light
or Dark for the default Windows mode (the
overall color scheme), and then you can
choose Light or Dark for the default app
mode. Everything else after that is the same as
for choosing a light or dark color scheme.- LOCK SCREEN
Just as it is on your phone, there are a lot of
different options you can put on your lock
screen beyond images. You can choose to
see app notifications there as well.
At the top of this screen is the option to
choose an image. As with the backgrounds,
you can choose between built-in Windows
options, an image of your choosing, or a
slideshow. By default, Windows 10 uses
Spotlight, which comes from Bing images
with three options including Light, Dark, and
Custom. The first two are very similar. Once
you choose between a predominantly light or
dark option, use an on/off slider to choose
whether you want to employ transparency
effects. This allows some portions of the
interface, such as the Start menu, to be
slightly transparent with the application
windows behind blurred.
Underneath that, you can choose an
accent color or create your own by clicking
Custom Color below the built-in options.
These accent colors are for Windows title bars
and other portions of the interface. If you
don’t want to choose your own color, you can
allow Windows 10 to do it based on your
color scheme, and the operating system
usually does a pretty good job of this.
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