Windows 11: RGB lighting control feature discovered

Apparently a new menu for controlling the RGB lighting of connected devices is planned for Windows 11. The menu can already be made visible with a trick in an insider build of Windows 11.

The resourceful user Albacore drew attention to the “Lighting” menu on Twitter and immediately provides screenshots as evidence. Under Settings -> Personalization is a new submenu, Lighting. There is a master switch there to enable or disable the ambient lighting. Below is a list of connected devices with lighting such as keyboards and mice with RGB. If one of them is selected, another menu opens, via which the lighting effects can be set individually for each device.

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There are controls for the brightness, the colors or the frequency of the effect. In the future, Windows 11 will itself take on the task of one of the now numerous software tools from the suppliers of computer components. Owners of RGB components from different manufacturers sometimes even have to install several of these tools to control their lighting. So if the still-secret feature becomes part of Windows, it could make it easier to use.

Hidden in Insider Preview

For now, however, it is a function that is available in Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 25295 is hidden. As Bleeping Computer reports, the lighting menu can be made visible using Albacore's ViveTool aka thebookisclosed. The following commands are required for this:

vivetool /enable /id:35262205 vivetool /enable /id:41355275

Whether and when the new function will be included in the public build of Windows 11 will hold remains to be seen. Apparently, however, the development is already well advanced.

The idea of ​​such a function for the Windows operating system is anything but new. Albacore refers to the accepted application (PDF) from a Microsoft employee to introduce such a user menu to control the lighting of devices from 2018.


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