Desktop icon title text: how/where to adjust font & color?

[Guest Nev]

--XP Pro on a PC, using "Contemporary" and not "Classic" display mode.

 

Neither "Font" nor "Display" in Control Panel shows how to change the icons

title text color or font style.

 

I need an unshadowed, solid font instead of the existing hard-to-read

outlined & shadowed font.

[Guest Mark F.]

Re: Desktop icon title text: how/where to adjust font & color?

 

 

"Nev" <nev@whidbey.com> wrote in message

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> --XP Pro on a PC, using "Contemporary" and not "Classic" display mode.

>

> Neither "Font" nor "Display" in Control Panel shows how to change the

> icons title text color or font style.

>

> I need an unshadowed, solid font instead of the existing hard-to-read

> outlined & shadowed font.

 

Right-click the Desktop > "Properties" > "Appearance" tab > click the

"Effects" button. This dialog allows you to change the font smoothing, and

shadowing. Click OK. Next, (back at the appearance page) click "Advanced"

button. In the "Item" dropdown list select "Icon" then change your font to

what you want.

 

You may have to play with the settings to get the desired effects. When you

like the settings you have, select the "Themes" tab on the Display

Properties dialog and click the "Save As" button to save it as a custom

theme.

 

Mark

[Guest Nev]

Re: Desktop icon title text: how/where to adjust font & color?

 

> You may have to play with the settings to get the desired effects.

 

Thanks for the procedures. Some of the "Item" features allow for text color

change but, oddly, not for the icon text... or did I miss something?