[SOLVED] Trouble with accent color

[rafabs]

I've encountered a weird error when using wallpaper engine: closing the program after using the option "Accent Color" and trying to use windows built-in auto accent color feature results in a different (darker, uglier) accent color than before using wallpaper engine. The error persists even after uninstalling wallpaper engine. I've been able to reproduce the error on more than one computer.

Have you encountered this error before? If so, how did you managed to fix it?

Thank you in advance.

[Tim]

This is not a bug or a problem. When you first activate the feature, Wallpaper Engine shows a pretty big warning that this feature will alter your Windows theme settings and you should only activate it if you know how to change back your theme settings.

Wallpaper Engine does not permanently alter anything in Windows and only changes the colors in the Windows settings - all you need to do is find the correct color settings again that you like to have. However, since it's permanently changing a setting, uninstalling Wallpaper Engine will not resolve this "problem" because the color settings remain changed.

Make sure you select not only the right color but also the correct color intensity. Check out the "How to change the color accent" section of this guide to see the color intensity slider that I mean (in the "choose a custom accent color" popup):

https://www.windowscentral.com/how-customize-look-and-feel-windows-10

[rafabs]

First of all, thanks for your answer.

I know how to change color back ^^, that is not the problem I'm talking about. An instance of the problem: before using wallpaper engine, setting as wallpaper a solid color gives a blue auto accent color (I think its name in windows palette is "default blue"); after using wpe, in the same situation, the color that auto accent color gives is "dark grey": It is not that I don't know how to set back the color that I used before, the case is that "I believe" WPE is altering something in the way W10 calculates the accent color from a background image.

I've read the information on the link you provided: I don't want to manually set the color for each image, I pretty much liked the selection W10 did. The thing is, with automatic accent color, W10 now gives a different color than before using WPE (for each different image, a different color, I'm not stuck with the last color WPE set or something like that).

Sorry for the inconvenience.

[rafabs]

Another instance of the problem: using the wallpaper with the green tent (one of W10 included wallpapers), auto accent color used to give "lime" color (named that way, "lime"). After WPE, the color it gives is "dark green") (it is not a name problem, on screen "dark green" is way darker than "lime").

[Biohazard]

Use this tool and disable the checkbox: https://rammichael.com/getting-brighter-colors-in-windows-10

[rafabs]

Originally posted by Biohazard:

Use this tool and disable the checkbox: https://rammichael.com/getting-brighter-colors-in-windows-10

Thanks for your answer. It worked.

Just a note: when I ran the program, the checkbox was already disabled. Enabling and re-disabling it did the trick.

[acezyxgodx]

Wow, I had the same problem and did not expect to find a solution but this worked. Thank you!

[Josh1EWawa]

Im having a similar issue but on windows 11, is there any solution?