Desktop icon font colour?

[Guest h.stroph]

Greetings,

 

How do I change the colour of the icon font on the desktop? The current

white is just too diffivult to see on a weak older back-lighted lcd.

 

Properties | Appearance | Item | Icon - allows a choice of font, size, bold

and italic, but the colour pull-down is greyed-out. I'd like the font under

the icons on the desktop to be black while preserving all other current

characteristics such as background colour.

 

Changing the background colour to black or a darker colour makes the white

fonts much more visible, but I find the tone to be too somber for my tastes.

Changing the font colour is all I desire, but can't find out how to do it

without your help.

 

Thank you.

[Guest Bob I]

Re: Desktop icon font colour?

 

Put on a light background and Windows will automatically switch the font

to black.

 

h.stroph wrote:

> Greetings,

>

> How do I change the colour of the icon font on the desktop? The current

> white is just too diffivult to see on a weak older back-lighted lcd.

>

> Properties | Appearance | Item | Icon - allows a choice of font, size, bold

> and italic, but the colour pull-down is greyed-out. I'd like the font under

> the icons on the desktop to be black while preserving all other current

> characteristics such as background colour.

>

> Changing the background colour to black or a darker colour makes the white

> fonts much more visible, but I find the tone to be too somber for my tastes.

> Changing the font colour is all I desire, but can't find out how to do it

> without your help.

>

> Thank you.

>

>

[Guest h.stroph]

Re: Desktop icon font colour?

 

In news:u3qlOWyyIHA.1772@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl,

Bob I <birelan@yahoo.com> typed:

> Put on a light background and Windows will automatically switch the

> font to black.

 

Thank you, but I wish to choose the color of the icon font, not have Windows

2000 make the choice for me.

 

Is there a Registry key that can be altered manually please, since it looks

like there's no GUI selector available?

[Guest Bob I]

Re: Desktop icon font colour?

 

 

 

h.stroph wrote:

> In news:u3qlOWyyIHA.1772@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl,

> Bob I <birelan@yahoo.com> typed:

>

>

>>Put on a light background and Windows will automatically switch the

>>font to black.

>

>

> Thank you, but I wish to choose the color of the icon font, not have Windows

> 2000 make the choice for me.

>

> Is there a Registry key that can be altered manually please, since it looks

> like there's no GUI selector available?

>

 

None that I'm aware of, only the automatic business.