Tile Color Changer — бесплатная утилита для замены фона «живых» плиток в Windows 8.1

В Windows 8.1 цвет фона «живых» плиток на стартовом экране подбирается автоматически в зависимости от цвета иконки приложения. Нельзя сказать, чтобы Windows делает это из рук вон плохо, и всё же время от времени дизайнерское чутье её подводит. Взять хотя бы, к примеру, плитку командной строки. Вы не находите, что чёрная иконка этого компонента на мышином сером фоне смотрится как-то мрачновато?

Как бы это поправить? А очень просто! Воспользуйтесь маленькой бесплатной утилитой Windows Tile Color Changer.

Эта программка позволяет изменять цвет фона тайлов на стартовом экране в соответствии с предпочтениями пользователя. Нужное приложение можно выбрать в выпадающем списке, а цвет фона тайла — в палитре утилиты или указать свой, введя в поле Color HEX код желаемого оттенка в HEX-формате. После этого останется только применить изменения, нажав кнопку «Change Tile Color».

Также Tile Color Changer умеет менять цвет текста на «живых» плитках со светлого на тёмный и наоборот либо вовсе скрывать его. Разумеется, все изменения можно отменить, воспользовавшись предусмотренной разработчиком функцией сброса параметров к значениям по умолчанию. За это действие отвечает кнопка «Reset Defaults».

Загрузить утилиту можно бесплатно на официальном сайте The Windows Club. Программа бесплатна, установки на компьютер не требует, язык простейшего интерфейса — английский. Текущая версия утилиты не отличается совершенством: фон плиток некоторых приложений, к примеру Проводника, с её помощью изменить не получится.

Также почему-то нам так и не удалось заменить фон «живой» плитки Mozilla Firefox, хотя утилита и подтвердила корректность такой замены.

How Change Tile Color for a Specific Program on Windows 10

Windows 10 has a tile system which colored based on the theme you choose. However, there is only one color for every program on the tile menu.

But, is there any way to change tile color for certain programs?

Unfortunately, Windows 10 doesn’t provide such capability to change tile color individually, but a lightweight app named Windows Tile Color Changer could solve this problem.

I’m going to explain to you how to change tile color using that program. Check out the following tutorial!

How to change tile color for a specific program

Time Needed : 3 minutes

In this guide, you will learn how to change tile color for a specific program using Windows Tile Color Changer. This app should be work on Windows 10 and Windows 8/8.1.

Download Windows Tile Color Changer here. Extract the archive and launch the program.

Go to the Change Color tab.

Select an Application you want to change its tile. Make sure the app has been in the Start Menu.

If you see this message, the tile has changed. Click OK to continue.

Head to the Start Menu and see the new color of tiles!

If you want to revert it back, just select the app and Reset Defaults.

Tools

• Windows Tile Color Changer
• Windows 10 or Windows 8/8.1

Materials

According to my test, the color remains intact although you close the Windows Tile Color Changer program. This should be good news for users since it doesn’t have to run in the background or slowing down the startup process.

Please note that this app is not perfect (yet). Some programs like Microsoft Office and Firefox restrict changing color so you can’t modify the tile of these programs. The majority of programs should be work perfectly nonetheless.

I hope this guide helps you. Thank you for visiting!

Windows Tile Color Changer: Change color of Tiles on Start Screen in Windows 8.1

Windows Tile Color Changer is a freeware for Windows 8.1/8 which has been released by us. It allows you to change the color of pinned Tiles of your desktop apps, on your Start Screen, easily with a single click, and further help you in customizing your Start Screen.

Windows Tile Color Changer

Like all our Windows Freeware releases, this tool too is totally clean, crapware-free, and portable.

Change the color of Tiles on Start Screen

To use the tool, you have to download the zip file from the link mentioned below and extract its contents. Place the Program Folder in any location you want to. In the Program Folder, you will see Windows Tile Color Changer.exe file. Click on it to open the free software.

Now from the Change Color tab, select an application from the drop-down menu, specify the Hex Color or select one of the colors, select the Foreground text, and click on Change Tile Color. By default, the name is set to be displayed on the Tile, but you can Off it if you wish. Similarly, a Light foreground text is set by default, but this too can be changed.

Once you have clicked on Change Tile Color button, you will see a Color successfully changed the message. Visit the Start Screen to see the changes.

The tool changes the color of the Tiles of your desktop software or apps only, and not the Universal Windows apps or System Tools. Again, at times, you may find that the color does not change, even for the desktop app tiles. The developer has yet to find the reason why this happens. If you face this issue, we suggest you move on and try again, maybe the next day. Once the developer finds the reason, he is sure to update this tool.

Then there are some tiles like the Firefox tile, which just do not support changing its color. Similarly, the latest version of Microsoft Office is not supported as the tiles are already custom colored and changing of color functionality has been restricted.

Clicking on the Reset Default button will reset the tile color to its default.

If you wish to uninstall it, you need to simply delete its Program folder, as it is a portable tool.

Windows Tile Color Changer v1 has been developed by Lavish Thakkar for TheWindowsClub. Please do remember to create a system restore point first before making any changes to your Windows system. If you have questions or wish to give feedback, you may do so at our TWC Forums.

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No you cant change color of individual tiles. However you can change background color by going to Settings>Personalization>Colors.

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Thanks for your speedy reply and advice. That’s unfortunate. I found 8.1 far superior to windows 7. I accept that windows 10 is meant to be the best of both worlds with some great improvements and tweeks, but these changes become inadequacies when they don’t give you choice. One step forward, half a step back. I liked the bright different coloured tiles on 8.1.

Having all the tiles be the same colour blue (other than a few Bing or Xbox related ones) is pretty boring.

Now even all the apps in Microsoft office are the same colour blue as well.

It would be much more fun being able to colour co-ordinate your favourites! or different groups of tiles windows apps one colour, nero another colour, Office another colour etc.

If anyone comes up with a solution to allow tile colour to be determined by the users please let me know.

Windows Tile Color Changer

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Change the tile color of Windows applications with this intuitive application that allows users to manually insert color HEX codes

Windows Tile Color Changer is designed to help users in easily modifying the look of their Start Screen. Both the foreground color and the icon text can be modified.

A great resource with wonderful results

Beautiful simplicity is one of the pillars of this application. Although it has only function, the results can really be good. Dealing with those dull default colors can brighten up the screen, and improve the overall Windows experience.

The program can also enable or disable the foreground text. When users are already familiarized with their applications, the name of the software is really redundant. If, however, the foreground text is spared, there is also an option to change its color.

There are twelve tile colors to choose from, but a very nice feature is that manual input of color HEX codes is supported. Thus, setting a background color like “AntiqueWhite” (#FAEBD7) is possible, even though it is not one of those twelve visible items.

This is a very nice hidden touch, that opens up a new universe of customization. Given the great number of HEX codes available, one could hardly find no color match for their wishes.

A well-suited interface, complete with tips

The GUI is very simple and geared towards efficiency. There is a welcome message, complete with program description and some tips.

There are only two buttons, one for applying the modifications and one for resetting to default. Thus, changes can quickly be undone.

An overall easy to use resource, with very nice results

Windows Tile Color Changer is a simple program, but with very appealing results. Users of all levels of knowledge and experience will find it a breeze to use!