New tab in IE appearing with black background

I don't remember exactly what I customized/personalized in my system. The problem now is that the 'New Tab' in IE 10 is appearing with a black background as shown below:

New Tab appearing with a black background

How do I revert back/fix it to have the default white background?

NOTE: My system is running IE10 on Windows 7 32-bit. I even tried changing different Themes (Settings -> Control Panel -> Personalization), but still the problem exists.

Gnanam

Posted 2013-04-10T09:52:57.093

Reputation: 537

Answers

Here's your fix:

Go to Personalize from your desktop, then change the theme to Windows 7 Basic - then change back to whatever theme you were using. No more black background!

Worked for me!

PC Medic

Posted 2013-04-10T09:52:57.093

Reputation: 21

We had the same issue on Windows 2008 R2 Xenapp 6 and 6.5 (terminal server). The issue can be fixed by applying the Windows 7 basic theme. But because our users could not modify the personalization (theme, background colors ...), we could not use this solution.

Using Procmon, we found out that Internet Explorer 10 could not find the following registry key:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\DWM]
"ColorizationColor"

To fix the issue, we imported the following keys, which are usually set when the Windows 7 basic theme is selected, and our problem was solved:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\DWM]
"Composition"=dword:00000001
"ColorizationColor"=dword:6b74b8fc
"ColorizationColorBalance"=dword:00000008
"ColorizationAfterglow"=dword:6b74b8fc
"ColorizationAfterglowBalance"=dword:0000002b
"ColorizationBlurBalance"=dword:00000031
"ColorizationGlassReflectionIntensity"=dword:00000000
"ColorizationOpaqueBlend"=dword:00000000

Emmanuel

Posted 2013-04-10T09:52:57.093

Reputation: 21

+1 Thanks, this worked for me on Windows 7 Basic. – kol – 2015-05-13T17:05:42.453

This worked immediately for me too on Windows 7 - Didn't even have to restart IE 11. – Addison – 2017-11-17T02:21:34.800

There is a radical option: Reset Internet Explorer settings

open Control Panel > Internet Options or Internet Explorer Tools menu > Internet Options
click on Advanced tab
click on Reset... button
click on Apply button

The easier option would be to play with your Appearance properties

open Control Panel > Internet Options or Internet Explorer Tools menu > Internet Options
click on General tab
click on Colors button
tick the Use Windows Colors checkbox => the colors should be fine

More Details here

Mache

Posted 2013-04-10T09:52:57.093

Reputation: 134

Thanks for your suggestion. I tried both options, but still it is appearing with black background. In fact, Use Windows Colors is already checked in my system. Any other idea/troubleshooting steps? – Gnanam – 2013-04-12T03:04:10.010