Font Color for Desktop Icons

[Guest BruceS]

Hi, All!

 

I saw in one of the previous posts that one cannot set the font color of the

desktop icons by using Display properties/Advanced. (I've tried. That

option is greyed out in the setting box.)

 

I tried setting the background to white (which results in black for the

font), then re-applying a photo that is used for the desktop background. The

font color switches back to white when the photo is loaded. Would like to

have it black because it is more readable with this picture.

 

Is there a registry entry that can be used to force the icon font color to

black or some other color?

Can some value in .theme file (IconFont, etc.) be modified?

Is there some other way?

 

Thanks,

Bruce

[Guest Malke]

Re: Font Color for Desktop Icons

 

BruceS <bruce \at\ springthorpe.org> wrote:

> Hi, All!

>

> I saw in one of the previous posts that one cannot set the font color of

> the

> desktop icons by using Display properties/Advanced. (I've tried. That

> option is greyed out in the setting box.)

>

> I tried setting the background to white (which results in black for the

> font), then re-applying a photo that is used for the desktop background.

> The

> font color switches back to white when the photo is loaded. Would like to

> have it black because it is more readable with this picture.

>

> Is there a registry entry that can be used to force the icon font color to

> black or some other color?

> Can some value in .theme file (IconFont, etc.) be modified?

> Is there some other way?

 

The only way to change the icon text color natively is to use a different

color background. Look at third-party theming/skinning solutions instead.

The http://www.wincustomize.com site is reputable.

 

Malke

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