Windows Vista and 7 comes with Windows Photo Viewer pre-installed, which works as the default picture viewer program. However due to transparency and the white background, viewing pictures can be uncomfortable. Following this guide, you can now change to any colour.
Instruction
1) To change background colour
Go to Start > Run > type “regedit”
Go to: HKEY_CURRENT_USER > Software > Microsoft > Windows Photo Viewer > Viewer
Besides the existing “MainWndPos”, right-click on the blank area, > new > DWORD (32 Bit) Value > change name to: “BackgroundColor” > hit Enter.
Double-click on the value you just added. change it to “ff111111″ for a black background or any colour from this link and replace the letters after the ff with your preferred HEX-color-code. > press OK.
2) To change text colour (optional)
Add another entry with a right-click on the blank area, > new > DWORD (32 Bit) Value > change name to: “TextColor” > hit Enter.
Double-click on the value you just added. change it to “ffffffff” (f*8) for a white font-color if you use a dark background > press OK.
Lastly, restart the viewer to see the result like below.
Go to Start > Run > type “regedit”
Go to: HKEY_CURRENT_USER > Software > Microsoft > Windows Photo Viewer > Viewer
Besides the existing “MainWndPos”, right-click on the blank area, > new > DWORD (32 Bit) Value > change name to: “BackgroundColor” > hit Enter.
Double-click on the value you just added. change it to “ff111111″ for a black background or any colour from this link and replace the letters after the ff with your preferred HEX-color-code. > press OK.
2) To change text colour (optional)
Add another entry with a right-click on the blank area, > new > DWORD (32 Bit) Value > change name to: “TextColor” > hit Enter.
Double-click on the value you just added. change it to “ffffffff” (f*8) for a white font-color if you use a dark background > press OK.
Lastly, restart the viewer to see the result like below.
Source: Designer-WG
If you are having problems with registry key, please visit another solution here.
If you are having problems with registry key, please visit another solution here.
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13 comments:
Thanks for this - it works! Goodness knows why MS picked the default colours as there is insufficient contrast in viewing photos.
BH
You're welcome! It's all thanks to Designer-WG. SolidbBlack is still the best colour for me!
Brilliant, such a simple solution that makes our lives better!
On my monitor this didn't do anything on its own. Another solution found on the web was to change the ICC Profile in the "Color Management" control from whatever it was to the sRGB IE61966 profile, that didn't do it either (it turned the background from turquoise to blueish). But doing the registry trick here after changing color profile to sRGB IE61966 did it.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH.....!!!!
thank you so much! <3
Thanks for the article, but for some reason my W7 system doesn't have this registry key, and even when I created it, the background stayed the same. I used this program and it worked, might come in handy for others in my situation: http://www.instantfundas.com/2012/09/change-background-color-of-windows.html
It worked, thanks man, people like you make the internet.
Finally! great tip! - now i just have to pull the same trick with YouTube and every other website/program that wants to look like Google for no good reason
Thanks alot... we easily worked what i wanted to do .....
Thanks a lot for this tip, that's awesome
Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!!!
I don't have "Windows Photo Viewer " inside "HKEY_CURRENT_USER > Software > Microsoft"
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