Microsoft is making tremendous efforts to make Windows 11 more personalized and customizable for the user. Previously, the company released a series of Pantone wallpapers for Windows 11 that are particularly beautiful. Later, the company added a Windows Spotlight feature to bring Bing wallpapers to Windows 11 and give users more options to customize the desktop. And now, thanks Twitter user PhantomOcean3, you can access multiple hidden themes and wallpapers designed for students using school devices. These new wallpapers look great and support both dark and light themes. So if you want to enable educational themes on Windows 11, follow our guide below.
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New educational themes on Windows 11 (2022)
In this tutorial, we mentioned how to enable and apply Education themes on Windows 11 PC. We’ve also added steps to get the new wallpapers and steps to turn them off if you no longer want to use the new themes.
How to enable educational themes on Windows 11
Before enabling Education themes on Windows 11, make sure you have updated to Windows 11 22H2. The educational topics are fair available on Windows 11 22H2 builds. You don’t have to be in beta or dev channel to experience these themes as you can get them in stable versions too. So follow our guide linked above to install the Windows 11 22H2 update (if you haven’t already) and then continue with the steps below.
1. To enable educational themes on Windows 11, click the search button on the taskbar and search for “Registration“. Now open the “Registry Editor” from the search results.
2. Next, copy the below path and paste it into the registry editor address bar. This will take you straight to the appropriate folder.
Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\PolicyManager\current\device
3. Here, right-click on “device” in the left pane and select New -> Key.
4. Rename the newly created key to “education“.
5. Now select the Education key and right click in the empty space on the right side. Then select New -> DWORD (32-bit) value.
6. Set the name of the new DWORD value to “Enable Edu Themes“.
7. Now double click on “EnableEduThemes” and set the “Value Data” to “1‘ to enable the feature.
8. Finally, restart your PC. Make sure you are connected to the internet and wait a few minutes. Windows 11 downloads the hidden new Education themes to your PC in the background.
How to apply educational themes in Windows 11 22H2
1. Now open the Settings app using the Windows 11 keyboard shortcut “Windows + I”. Change here to “personalization‘ in the left menu.
2. You will find the new educational topics on your Windows 11 computer. Just select the one you want to apply and see the wallpaper and theme change instantly. Enjoy!
3. Here are some of the educational themes in action. They look so warm, cozy and colorful. Students will surely like the melting ice cream galaxy wallpaper shown in the following topic.
4. If only you want the wallpaper, press “Windows + R” to open the “Run” prompt. Paste the following path and press Enter.
%localappdata%\Microsoft\Windows\Themes
13. Find all new Windows 11 Education wallpapers here. Copy them to your personal folder if you want to use them separately or share them.
How to disable educational themes on Windows 11
If the Education theme has broken something on your PC and you want to disable it, you can easily do so. Follow the steps below carefully:
1. Open the registry editor from the start menu. Then, Paste the following path.
Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\PolicyManager\current\device
2. Here, right click on the “Education” button and “Extinguish” it.
3. Well, Restart your PCand the new themes will be disabled.
Enjoy several new hidden themes in Windows 11
So here’s how you can experience the new Education themes on your Windows 11 PC. I really liked the new wallpapers and light theme in Windows 11. And if you just want access to the colorful wallpapers, you can get them using the instructions above. Anyway, that’s all for this guide. To customize the taskbar on Windows 11, follow our in-depth tutorial linked here. Also, to personalize the Windows 11 Start menu, we have a specific guide for you. If you have any questions, let us know in the comment section below.
