

Moreover, make sure you are using an activated version of Windows as you can personalize Windows if you are using an inactivated version. Before moving on with the solutions to fix the taskbar color, restart your system to rule out any temporary glitch. This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties or guarantees and confers no rights. I do not represent the organisation I work for, all the opinions expressed here are my own. UNcheck "only show settings that can be fully managed" (since the registry change you want to make isn't in the HKCU\policies tree, it won't show if this box is cheked). Right-click on the "Administrative templates" entry again and select "view"->"filtering". Click "Add." and select the ADM file you just created. Right-click and select "Add/remove templates.". In the GPO editor, navigate to "User configuration" and the "Administrative templates". Now, open the group policy manager or the AD User and computers MMC snap in, navigate to the OU that you want to apply the policy, create a new GPO and edit it. PART "Enter the RGB values of the user's desktop background (ex: 128 128 128)" TEXT adm file.Ĭreate a new text file called "background_color.adm" with the following content:ĮXPLAIN "Allow you to control the background color of the user's desktop."

You can achive this by implementing group policy and creating. Windows 2008 - Enable Desktop Experience - RDS and XenAppĬhange the colour of the taskbar in windows 7? - suggestions given in this discussion might work with 2008 R2 with Desktop Experience feature enabled on the OS.Īlso, some what completed (possible ?) solution from similar threadĬhange task bar color (for both 2003 R R2 terminal server clients)įollowing excerpt is the text (cut & paste) from aforementioned expert-exchange thread !

You might try enabling Desktop Experience feature on 2008 R2 which might allow you to change the taskbar color. *** I have not tried this however just a thought, might work ***
