Start, Taskbar, And Action Center Grayed Out In Windows 10? How To Fix

For both custom and default themes

If you’re using a light theme on your computer, you’ll find that the Start, taskbar, and action center option in the color settings menu is grayed out. It means you can’t touch and edit it in your settings. The reason why it’s been disabled is because if Windows allowed you to change the accent color of these elements in a light theme, these elements might not be properly visible on your screen.

However, if you must work with the option and you’d like it enabled, there are a few ways to do it. Basically, you can just go into the Settings app and enable an option and it’ll activate the option for you.

You can enable the option for both default and custom themes but the steps are slightly different for each theme type.

Fixing The Grayed Out Start, Taskbar, & Action Center Option With a Default Theme

One of the quickest ways to fix the option and to make it modifiable is toenable the default themethat comes preloaded on your Windows computer. Once you do it, you’ll find that the option is no longer grayed out and you can change its settings.

While this method gets the job done in a few clicks, there’s actually a limitation it comes with. As you can see in the above steps, it requires you to apply the default Windows theme to your computer.

If this isn’t something you’re willing to do, you might want to look for another method that lets you enable the option in your current theme.

Enabling The Grayed Out Start, Taskbar & Action Center Option In a Custom Theme

If you don’t wish to leave your current theme but you still want to have the aforesaid option enabled, there’s actually a method that will let you do it.

It basically asks you tochange the color scheme of your themewhich will then activate the grayed out option on your machine.

Each time you change a theme, you want to make sure you enable the option shown in the above steps so the option doesn’t get disabled.

Update The Display Drivers To Fix The Issue

The above should fix the issue for most users. However, in a rare case if it didn’t work for you, you might want totry updating your display driversto see if it helps resolve the issue.

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Fixing The Grayed Out Start, Taskbar, & Action Center Option With a Default Theme#

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Update The Display Drivers To Fix The Issue#

Start, Taskbar, And Action Center Grayed Out In Windows 10? How To Fix

Fixing The Grayed Out Start, Taskbar, & Action Center Option With a Default Theme

Enabling The Grayed Out Start, Taskbar & Action Center Option In a Custom Theme

Update The Display Drivers To Fix The Issue