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Wing changed my Windows colours and I can't fix it.

G'Day.

Something weird happened when I first ran WingIDE 9. It ran using the dark theme which I assume it inherrited form my version 8 install, which is great. Weirdly though, it seems to have somehow pushed some fo those colour settings through to Windows itself. Now I can't really read the tab titles in FireFox as they are too light, the new tab shows up with the Wing background colour, the dropdowns (bookmarks, downloads etc) all have the background colour too.

It's not just FireFox though. Multi Commander is showing the colours in the file lists. Anything that uses a standard Windows file load/save dialog shows the file name box using the colours. In qBitTorrent the filters are hard to read as it's using the bled light forecolor on it's normal white background, and the lists (torrents, contents, RSS feeds etc) are all in the Wing colours.

The most annoying this though, is that I can't work out where on earth Windows has stored these colours so that I can fix it. Windows 10 doesn't seem to let you configure all of the colours like the older Windows used to, it just seems to le me pick light or dark and then a highlight colour.

Any suggestions on how this happened and how to fix it?