Windows XP Desktop Customization

[Thanee]

I cannot find it... someone help me please!

Where do I change the color of the text, that is shown beneath the icons on the desktop (mostly shortcuts, plus system, network, trashcan - the text that is written underneath those icons).

I have tried pretty much everything in the display properties, but that only seems to alter the window color/font settings!?

Any clue?

Bye
Thanee

 

[hong]

I don't think you can change the icon font colour, at least not with XP alone. The OS sets that colour automatically, based on what your background colour setting is. You could go to somewhere like www.themexp.org and get squillions of customised themes, though.

 

[Thanee]

It does?

Well, it does a fairly bad job then, I tried a light background (usually have dark color there), but couldn't read the text anymore (well at least not without some annoying concentration), as it was like light grey outlined white on white.

The text color didn't seem to change between black and white background color (I think, I also changed the actual background color, even tho it cannot be seen, because of the picture above ).

I'll experiment some more with that later... thanks!

Bye
Thanee

 

[Plane Sailing]

You don't need to go for fully fledged themes, I think you can change it with the tweakui utility or microangelo which you should be able to readily find.

Do you have a background picture? Do you have it set to show drop shadows for the desktop icon text?

 

[Thanee]

Do you have a background picture?

Yes, that's why I'm asking. The problem comes from the picture being very bright (mostly white), but XP is so smart to set the icon text color to some light grey tone, which is totally unreadable on that surface.

A plain white background... black text.
A mostly white background picture... light grey text!?

Do you have it set to show drop shadows for the desktop icon text?

Where do you do that?

Bye
Thanee