Microsoft is preparing a new feature that will allow you to control RGB lights – very famous in gamer accessories – natively in Windows 11. This means that users would not need to install third-party software to customize the colors, effects and other lighting characteristics of mice, keyboards , headphones and other items.
The user @thebookisclosed from Twitter discovered that Windows 11 Build 25295 adds a new option in the “Personalization” menu. The feature appears to be called “Lighting” (“illumination”, in translation into Portuguese) and should allow controls over all accessories with RGB lighting connected to the PC.
References to native control of peripheral lights in Windows date back to 2018, but since then, there has been no indication that the company would make this function available in its operating system. With the promise of being the best gaming platform in the world, Windows 11 seems to be the ideal generation to launch the feature.
Currently, to customize the color scheme on peripherals with RGB lights, it is necessary to install the manufacturer’s software, such as Razer and Logitech, but the applications do not always offer good communication with products from other brands connected to the PC. With this, a unified and native Windows option would allow the creation of a setup integrated.
Lighting, in its early implementation in the Preview version of Windows 11, offers controls to change the colors, brightness and speed of changing tones on keyboards, mice and headphones. There is no certainty that the feature will cover internal components of the device, such as video cards and RAM modules.
It is possible to force enable this feature through ViVeTool, but it should be remembered that this practice manipulates critical settings that, in extreme cases, can corrupt the system. The recommendation is that users wait for the stable release of the tool in a future Windows 11 update, possibly “Moment 3”.
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In case you want to check the tool and you are running the latest version of Windows 11 Dev, you can activate it by following the steps:
- Open Windows Terminal
- Press Ctlr + Shift + 2 to switch to Command Prompt
- Navigate to the folder where ViVeTool is located (example: cd C:vivetool)
- To type vivetool /enable /id:41355275 and press Enter
- To type vivetool /enable /id:35262205 and press enter
- restart the device
Windows 11 is still growing at a slow pace. Currently, 30% of Steam users are running the latest edition of Microsoft’s operating system. Windows 10, which is no longer officially sold by big tech, is still used by 63.46%.
