Activate hidden Education themes in Windows 11

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Activate hidden Education themes in Windows 11

If you Windows 11 22H2 installed, special themes for education are available. These are hidden themes specially developed for “Education”.

These themes are designed for devices used in schools or by students. They are themes with calm and cheerful colors and objects. These themes specifically for education are not available as standard. You must activate them by creating a certain key in the Windows registry.

After creating this registry key, you must restart the PC, make sure the computer is connected to the internet and wait a while. After a short wait, the themes will be downloaded by Windows 11 and will be available in the theme settings. You can then set the education theme or save a wallpaper to your computer.

Below is an example of an education theme. There are several as you can see in the theme settings.

Education theme in Windows 11

Activate hidden Education themes in Windows 11

To begin open the Windows registry. Then open the following key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\PolicyManager\current\device\

Right-click on “device”. Click on “New” and then on “Key”.

Name this key:

Education

Now right-click on “Education” and click on “New” and then on “DWORD value 32-bit”.

Give this REG_DWORD value the following name:

EnableEduThemes

Then set the value data to “1”.

EnableEduThemes

Restart your computer. Make sure the computer next connected to the internet.

After the restart, go to the theme settings. Open settings. Then click on “personal settings” and then on “themes".

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theme settings

You will now see the new themes especially for education, these are the “education themes”. Click on it to set the new theme.

If you don't see them yet, please wait. Windows 11 will automatically download the themes to your computer, this may take a while. You do not have to do anything.

Education theme in Windows 11

If you don't want a whole theme, but for example just a background. Then you open the Windows Explorer. Go to:

%localappdata%\Microsoft\Windows\Themes\

Select the theme for which you only want the background and open the “DesktopBackground” folder. This provides the background for the theme.

Get theme background

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