Can you change the Windows 10 taskbar's "flashing orange" alert colour?

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I asked this on reddit but have received no replies:

I want to make the flashing orange "alert" colour on the taskbar to make it much brighter. It's incredibly dull at the moment and very easy to miss when a program gives you an alert.

Compared to all the things which Stardock WindowBlinds can do, I feel like this should be a relatively easy thing to achieve.

In Windows 7 this used to be possible by editing the aero.msstyles file, as described here. But I can't find any tutorials to do the same thing in Windows 10.

Thanks

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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top

From your post I can tell you are familiar with Windowblinds which a skin would accomplish this.

Additionally Curtains Stardock Curtains: Customize Windows with additional styles with Start 11Stardock Start11: Restore the Classic Start Menu in Windows 10 and 11.  Installed will allow you to maintain a factory windows look and customize this area.

On Win10 msstyles require uxtheme patches and are much more risky on 10 than any previous OS version and mostly unstable .

Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top

In SkinStudio, you simply change the graphic for this if I am not mistaken.

 

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Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting theAVMAN, reply 1
From your post I can tell you are familiar with Windowblinds which a skin would accomplish this.
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Quoting RedneckDude, reply 2
In SkinStudio, you simply change the graphic for this if I am not mistaken.
End of RedneckDude's quote

Sorry, I should have mentioned, I would like to achieve this while still using the "Automatically pick an accent color from my background" option in Windows' colour settings, which lets the taskbar and window title bars change colour as your desktop background image changes.

So basically I want to keep everything default, but just make the orange alert colour much brighter.

Maybe I'm asking for too much; but I figured that dull orange colour must come from somewhere, right? So I figured if it's hard-coded somewhere perhaps it could be changed in isolation without affecting anything else.

Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Without some kind of 3rd party software, you can't really change much about microshit's look, other than what the OS allows.

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Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top

So there is no equivalent to editing the .msstyles file like you could on Windows 7?

I did have a look inside the aero.msstyles file using Restorator but I couldn't find the taskbar image.