{"id":11311,"date":"2016-07-06T15:26:38","date_gmt":"2016-07-06T19:26:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=11311"},"modified":"2016-07-06T15:26:38","modified_gmt":"2016-07-06T19:26:38","slug":"windows-10-the-case-of-the-awful-colors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/windows-10-the-case-of-the-awful-colors\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows 10: The Case of the Awful Colors"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><span class=\"auto-style9\"><strong>Windows 10: The Case of the Awful\u00a0Colors<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n<p>We have worked on many Windows 10 computers with our Cloudeight Direct Computer Care service. And, let me tell you, we\u2019ve seen some really awful colors. But we are not picking on anyone, it\u2019s not their fault. Windows automatically chooses a color from your background to be your accent color. So if you have a lot of browns and yellows in your desktop background picture, you\u2019re going to end up with a taskbar and start menu that looks sort of like this:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2016\/ugly-colors.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If some of you actually like that color, sorry. It reminds me of being a young father and changing diapers. Sorry, that\u2019s gross \u2014 but true.<\/p>\n<p>If you don\u2019t like Windows choosing your accent colors for you, take your color palette into your own hands.<\/p>\n<p>1. Click Start<br \/>\n2. Click Settings<br \/>\n3. Click Personalization<br \/>\n4. Click Colors<br \/>\n5. Turn all 3 switches off.<br \/>\n6. When you turn the first switch off, you\u2019ll see a color palette.<br \/>\n7. Choose a color<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2016\/ugly1.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Above: Turn all the sliders off \u2013 including the 3rd one (transparency). When you turn the first slider off, you\u2019ll see the color palette \u2013 as below:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2016\/ugly2.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There you go! You have solved the case of Windows 10&#8217;s awful\u00a0colors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Windows 10: The Case of the Awful\u00a0Colors We have worked on many Windows 10 computers with our Cloudeight Direct Computer Care service. And, let me tell you, we\u2019ve seen some really awful colors. But we are not picking on anyone, it\u2019s not their fault. Windows automatically chooses a color from your background to be your accent color. So\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/windows-10-the-case-of-the-awful-colors\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11311"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11311"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11312,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11311\/revisions\/11312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}