Changing contact list font and color?

[Chris May]

I'm using Windows Live Messenger 8.1 and can't seem to find any way of changing
the font and font color for names in my contact list. Those tiny black letters
are harder to see than they should be and don't look very good anyway.

The only font controls I could find in Options are for the IM pane only.

Thanks for your help.

ChrisM

[Jonathan Kay [MVP]]

Greetings Chris,

I haven't figured it out either, beyond resource editing the Messenger executable itself
(which will disable several features unless patched correctly.

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"Chris May" > wrote in message
...
> I'm using Windows Live Messenger 8.1 and can't seem to find any way of changing
> the font and font color for names in my contact list. Those tiny black letters
> are harder to see than they should be and don't look very good anyway.
>
> The only font controls I could find in Options are for the IM pane only.
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> ChrisM

[Chris May]

On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 21:21:51 -0500, Jonathan Kay [MVP] pondered exceedingly,
then took quill in hand and carefully composed...

| Greetings Chris,
|
| I haven't figured it out either, beyond resource editing the Messenger executable itself
| (which will disable several features unless patched correctly.

Thanks, Jonathan. I'm not surefooted enough to start playing around with
executables. But I'm a little surprised there's no easy way of changing
something that so obviously needs changing. Maybe you could put a bug in
somebody's ear concerning the next version?

ChrisM

[Jonathan Kay [MVP]]

HI Chris,

I'll do my best since this is a actually an accessibility issue too.

--
Jonathan Kay
Microsoft MVP - Windows Live Messenger/MSN Messenger/Windows Messenger
Associate Expert
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/
Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com
All posts unless otherwise specified are (c) 2007 Jonathan Kay.
You *must* contact me for redistribution rights.
--

"Chris May" > wrote in message
...
> On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 21:21:51 -0500, Jonathan Kay [MVP] pondered exceedingly,
> then took quill in hand and carefully composed...
>
> | Greetings Chris,
> |
> | I haven't figured it out either, beyond resource editing the Messenger executable itself
> | (which will disable several features unless patched correctly.
>
> Thanks, Jonathan. I'm not surefooted enough to start playing around with
> executables. But I'm a little surprised there's no easy way of changing
> something that so obviously needs changing. Maybe you could put a bug in
> somebody's ear concerning the next version?
>
> ChrisM