Ed Bott - Windows 10 Support Secrets

26 CHAPTER 2 | Personalizing the Windows 10 experience Figure 2-7: The accent color you choose here appears on Start menu tiles and other places where a splash of color is needed. Flip the other switches to On to use the same color in parts of Windows and desktop programs. By default, accent colors appear in Start, as the background for tiles that don’t specify their own color, and in apps such as Groove Music (look at the Now Playing bar on the bottom of the Groove window.) Use the first two switches on the Colors tab to turn transparency on or off and to make the accent color appear as the background for Start, the taskbar, and Action Center. Flip the Show Color On Title Bar switch to On if you want your accent color to appear in the title bar of Windows apps and desktop programs, as well. The final major look-and-feel option is the lock screen. On this tab, you can specify a picture or slideshow that you want to use as the background when your PC has been idle for the amount of time (specified under Screen Timeout Settings). Beginning with the Anniversary Update, you now have the option to use the same picture on the lock screen and the sign-in screen where you enter your password or PIN. Figure 2-8 illustrates the Windows Spotlight option, which uses dramatic background pictures supplied by Microsoft and also occasionally provides suggestions.