Take the 2-minute tour ×  In Windows8 you can set window color
from following path  Control Panel\Appearance and
Personalization\Personalization\Color and Appearance  This has
some predefined colors and a Color Mixer option. I would like to
explicitly set a color by hex or rgb code, but the color mixer's
slidebars don't give me the specificity I need. Any other way to
do this?  share|improve this question  1 Answer 1  up vote 2
down vote accepted  This is for Windows 7, but perhaps the
registry remains mostly the same?  Try looking under
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\DWM  You might also
have luck looking under HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel...
share|improve this answer When you change colors the first key
does update. Specifically ColorizationColor and
ColorizationAfterglow. Unfortunately I don't know how to map
those to colors. They are hex values. –  mrtsherman Oct 10 '12
at 20:22 The page I link to has a little section at the bottom
where you can input either decimal (0 to 255) or hex (00