My favourites Bar icons in Windows 11 are not coloured. How can I restore the colour.

Anonymous
2024-10-24T04:38:44+00:00

I would like to restore colour into my Favourite Bar now they are colourless.

Thank you.

Microsoft Edge | Favorites, history, and downloads | Windows 11

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  1. Anonymous
    2025-01-04T16:01:47+00:00

    Unfortunately, I changed to a different browser because the folder was challenging to see without color.

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-12-28T15:43:02+00:00

    I found that if I went into Settings -> System and Performance and disabled both "Startup boost" and "Continue running background extensions and apps when Microsoft Edge is closed" that Edge no longer ran several processes in the background after closing the current session, so it worked every time after that (retained the yellow folders).

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-12-25T06:27:17+00:00

    Temporary workaround mentioned here > https://www.windowslatest.com/2024/12/23/microsoft-edge-drops-yellow-for-folders-favourites-gets-monoline-transparent-look/

    Thanks for the tip, Ṣmeed.

    I'm on Mac and this option does indeed work by sending this command in Terminal:

    open -a "Microsoft Edge" --args --disable-features=msFavoritesMonolineFolder

    It's better than nothing, but it's obviously still just a lousy workaround. Now Edge should always be either open via Terminal or a custom script. Hopefully Microsoft listens to user feedback and will give an option to restore the normal yellow icons in the UI.

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-12-24T16:29:52+00:00

    So, apparently, besides adding --disable-features=msFavoritesMonolineFolder to the shortcut Target field you must also kill any and all instances of Microsoft Edge running in the Task Manager. Then clicking the shortcut seems to consistently restore the yellow folders. This seems to work in Windows 10 and 11.

    Unfortunately, the restoration is very temperamental. It only seems to last for the current session. If you close and reopen Edge, the transparent folders return.

    So, if you want the yellow folders on subsequent uses of Edge, you must repeat killing Edge in Task Manager.

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  5. JuliaMarvin 22,525 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2024-12-23T07:59:43+00:00

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