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Center. It chooses a color it believes will provide an attractive

contrast to the photo or color you’ve chosen for your desktop
background.

If you turn this switch off, then Windows offers a palette of about
50 color squares, plus a handy set of recently used ones. It’s

prodding you to choose your own darned accent color.

Start, taskbar, and action center. If you turn this off, then your

chosen accent color will apply only to Start-menu tiles and window
controls; the Start menu background, taskbar, and Action Center
backgrounds will remain white (or, in dark mode, black).

Title bars and window borders. Same thing: If this is on, you’ll
colorize your window title bars and the fine outline of every

window; otherwise, they’ll be black.

Lock Screen

As described in Chapter 1, the first thing you see when you turn on your

machine is the Lock screen. Here, on this page of Settings (Figure 4-3), you
specify how you want it to look and act:

Preview. At the top, a miniature, showing what your Lock screen
looks like at the moment.

Background. “Windows spotlight” means that each day you’ll find
a new photo on your Lock screen, drawn from Bing Images.
They’re usually so stunning that you don’t even want to finish

powering up the machine. They’re also overlaid with a few textual
facts, tips, and blurbs, which you can’t get rid of unless you choose
one of the next two options.

“Picture” and “Slideshow” work just as described under
“Background” on Figure 4-1. (But if you choose Slideshow, you
also get an “Advanced slideshow settings” button. It opens a screen

that gives you control over which photos Windows uses and when;