What happened to colors?

The Settings window outline color is controlled by two separate registry
entries.

HKCU\Control Panel\Colors\TitleText (most of it)

HKCU\Control Panel\Colors\ButtonText (just the top)

Don't know why it is controlled by "Text" entries.

For the not so technically inclined, here's a picture...

https://www.flickr.com/photos/275322...in/photostream

Remember when the Windows startup logo was colorful? Apparently
abandoning that is related to the destruction of desktop
personalization.

Microsoft is flailing. It's trying to dominate/monopolize the
ultraportable PC market while it lets the Windows desktop crumble.

Will be fun to watch, one way or the other, shouldn't be very long
before Microsoft goes under or gets bailed out.

On 01/02/2016 11:26 PM, John Doe wrote:
The Settings window outline color is controlled by two separate registry
entries.

HKCU\Control Panel\Colors\TitleText (most of it)

HKCU\Control Panel\Colors\ButtonText (just the top)

Don't know why it is controlled by "Text" entries.

For the not so technically inclined, here's a picture...

https://www.flickr.com/photos/275322...in/photostream

Remember when the Windows startup logo was colorful? Apparently
abandoning that is related to the destruction of desktop
personalization.

Microsoft is flailing. It's trying to dominate/monopolize the
ultraportable PC market while it lets the Windows desktop crumble.

Will be fun to watch, one way or the other, shouldn't be very long
before Microsoft goes under or gets bailed out.


Like the green outline. How did that happen? What is this a shot
of, browser? or file explorer?

On 1/2/2016 10:26 PM, John Doe wrote:
The Settings window outline color is controlled by two separate registry
entries.

HKCU\Control Panel\Colors\TitleText (most of it)

HKCU\Control Panel\Colors\ButtonText (just the top)

Don't know why it is controlled by "Text" entries.

For the not so technically inclined, here's a picture...

https://www.flickr.com/photos/275322...in/photostream

Remember when the Windows startup logo was colorful? Apparently
abandoning that is related to the destruction of desktop
personalization.

Microsoft is flailing. It's trying to dominate/monopolize the
ultraportable PC market while it lets the Windows desktop crumble.

Will be fun to watch, one way or the other, shouldn't be very long
before Microsoft goes under or gets bailed out.



I taught good jokes were for April Fools Day, Not New Years Say.

Rene

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On 2016-01-02 11:26 PM, John Doe wrote:
The Settings window outline color is controlled by two separate
registry entries.

HKCU\Control Panel\Colors\TitleText (most of it)

HKCU\Control Panel\Colors\ButtonText (just the top)

Don't know why it is controlled by "Text" entries.

For the not so technically inclined, here's a picture...

https://www.flickr.com/photos/275322...in/photostream

Remember when the Windows startup logo was colorful? Apparently
abandoning that is related to the destruction of desktop
personalization.

Seriously? You're complaining that the Windows logo is no longer
colourful? Are you aware that styles and fashion changes? After all,
even Apple's logo used to have colours in it only to become a single
tone in the late 90s. If anything the new look for both Windows and
Apple's logos looks more professional.

Perhaps you should complain that IBM's logo doesn't have every shade
in a rainbow?

Microsoft is flailing. It's trying to dominate/monopolize the
ultraportable PC market while it lets the Windows desktop crumble.


Will be fun to watch, one way or the other, shouldn't be very long
before Microsoft goes under or gets bailed out.

You've clearly run out of your medication.


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EFF & OpenMedia member / IFAW, Mozilla & PETA supporter
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On 1/2/2016 10:26 PM, John Doe wrote:
The Settings window outline color is controlled by two separate registry
entries.

HKCU\Control Panel\Colors\TitleText (most of it)

HKCU\Control Panel\Colors\ButtonText (just the top)

Don't know why it is controlled by "Text" entries.

For the not so technically inclined, here's a picture...

https://www.flickr.com/photos/27532210 N04/23772061359/in/photostream

Remember when the Windows startup logo was colorful? Apparently
abandoning that is related to the destruction of desktop
personalization.

Microsoft is flailing. It's trying to dominate/monopolize the
ultraportable PC market while it lets the Windows desktop crumble.

Will be fun to watch, one way or the other, shouldn't be very long
before Microsoft goes under or gets bailed out.



I taught good jokes were for April Fools Day, Not New Years Say.

Rene

This is a typical troll that makes UseNet suck for discussion....

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On 2016-01-02 11:26 PM, John Doe wrote:
The Settings window outline color is controlled by two separate
registry entries.

HKCU\Control Panel\Colors\TitleText (most of it)

HKCU\Control Panel\Colors\ButtonText (just the top)

Don't know why it is controlled by "Text" entries.

For the not so technically inclined, here's a picture...

https://www.flickr.com/photos/27532210 N04/23772061359/in/photostream

Remember when the Windows startup logo was colorful? Apparently
abandoning that is related to the destruction of desktop
personalization.

Seriously? You're complaining that the Windows logo is no longer
colourful? Are you aware that styles and fashion changes? After all,
even Apple's logo used to have colours in it only to become a single
tone in the late 90s. If anything the new look for both Windows and
Apple's logos looks more professional.

Perhaps you should complain that IBM's logo doesn't have every shade
in a rainbow?

Microsoft is flailing. It's trying to dominate/monopolize the
ultraportable PC market while it lets the Windows desktop crumble.


Will be fun to watch, one way or the other, shouldn't be very long
before Microsoft goes under or gets bailed out.

You've clearly run out of your medication.


- --
Slimer
EFF & OpenMedia member / IFAW, Mozilla & PETA supporter
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Big Al wrote:

John Doe wrote:

The Settings window outline color is controlled by two separate
registry entries.

HKCU\Control Panel\Colors\TitleText (most of it)

HKCU\Control Panel\Colors\ButtonText (just the top)

Don't know why it is controlled by "Text" entries.

For the not so technically inclined, here's a picture...

https://www.flickr.com/photos/275322...in/photostream

Remember when the Windows startup logo was colorful? Apparently
abandoning that is related to the destruction of desktop
personalization.

Like the green outline. How did that happen? What is this a shot of,
browser? or file explorer?

The top/active window is the Settings window, the window through which
you access all-or-nothing Windows Updates.

HKCU\Control Panel\Colors\TitleText

That controls the active window outline color, except in the Settings
window (and maybe others, I don't know) where it is partly overridden by
the other registry setting.

It's clear evidence that some Microsoft programmers have no idea what
they're doing and/or they are being poorly managed. And of course there
is all the garbage in the Windows updates dialog area. And lots of other
strange stuff going on in Windows 10.

Ken1943 wrote:

Windows 10 does have a problem with display colors in general. If you
use or have used 10 for a period of time (10 minutes at the most) you
will know.

+3

John Doe posted this via news:n6a7uf$fni$1
@dont-email.me:

The Settings window outline color is controlled by two separate registry
entries.

HKCU\Control Panel\Colors\TitleText (most of it)

HKCU\Control Panel\Colors\ButtonText (just the top)

Don't know why it is controlled by "Text" entries.

For the not so technically inclined, here's a picture...

https://www.flickr.com/photos/275322...in/photostream

Remember when the Windows startup logo was colorful? Apparently
abandoning that is related to the destruction of desktop
personalization.

Microsoft is flailing. It's trying to dominate/monopolize the
ultraportable PC market while it lets the Windows desktop crumble.

Will be fun to watch, one way or the other, shouldn't be very long
before Microsoft goes under or gets bailed out.

Microsoft has already been "bailed out"... by the CIA, NSA, FBI and ASPCA!
Bill Gates didn't really "retire", he just works for the shadow government
now as a high-paid "consultant" - even though he, Warren Buffet and some of
those other rich guys are really the actual shadow government and they want
to gradually and surreptitiously retrograde us back to the olden days when
everybody wore afros and bell-bottom pants and the girls didn't wear bras,
because even though they're very rich, they're all suppressed perverts who
long for "the good old days" and nobody knows about computers - that way
they would think they were not only the richest people in the world; but
also the smartest ones too.

HTH.

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On 01/02/16 20:26, John Doe so wittily quipped:
The Settings window outline color is controlled by two separate registry
entries.

HKCU\Control Panel\Colors\TitleText (most of it)

HKCU\Control Panel\Colors\ButtonText (just the top)

Don't know why it is controlled by "Text" entries.

For the not so technically inclined, here's a picture...

https://www.flickr.com/photos/275322...in/photostream

Remember when the Windows startup logo was colorful? Apparently
abandoning that is related to the destruction of desktop
personalization.

Microsoft is flailing. It's trying to dominate/monopolize the
ultraportable PC market while it lets the Windows desktop crumble.

Will be fun to watch, one way or the other, shouldn't be very long
before Microsoft goes under or gets bailed out.

oh, noze! not ANOTHER BAILOUT!

Seriously, though, PC sales are DROPPING

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/01...ror_pc_market/

and 2 years ago, 7 machines FLEW off of shelves while 8 machines
COLLECTED DUST. That's because Sinofsky's 2D "limited color" interface
STINKS compared to the 3D skeumorphic look of 7 and earlier.

OPTIONS and COLORS and 3D SKEUMORPHIC is what sold windows 3.x, and was
a BIG part of '9x's success.

Microsoft should learn from their successes as WELL as their failures,
and adopt those things that WORK, instead of trying to CHANGE THE
CUSTOMER to ACCEPT the mediocre.

On 2016-01-13 5:29 PM, Big Bad Bob wrote:
On 01/02/16 20:26, John Doe so wittily quipped:
The Settings window outline color is controlled by two separate registry
entries.

HKCU\Control Panel\Colors\TitleText (most of it)

HKCU\Control Panel\Colors\ButtonText (just the top)

Don't know why it is controlled by "Text" entries.

For the not so technically inclined, here's a picture...

https://www.flickr.com/photos/275322...in/photostream

Remember when the Windows startup logo was colorful? Apparently
abandoning that is related to the destruction of desktop
personalization.

Microsoft is flailing. It's trying to dominate/monopolize the
ultraportable PC market while it lets the Windows desktop crumble.

Will be fun to watch, one way or the other, shouldn't be very long
before Microsoft goes under or gets bailed out.

oh, noze! not ANOTHER BAILOUT!

Seriously, though, PC sales are DROPPING

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/01...ror_pc_market/

and 2 years ago, 7 machines FLEW off of shelves while 8 machines
COLLECTED DUST. That's because Sinofsky's 2D "limited color" interface
STINKS compared to the 3D skeumorphic look of 7 and earlier.

OPTIONS and COLORS and 3D SKEUMORPHIC is what sold windows 3.x, and was
a BIG part of '9x's success.

Microsoft should learn from their successes as WELL as their failures,
and adopt those things that WORK, instead of trying to CHANGE THE
CUSTOMER to ACCEPT the mediocre.

Is it possible that people aren't buying PCs simply because the need for
extra power simply isn't there? Let's face it, if you bought a PC in say
1982, it was worse than obsolete by 1984 and you had to upgrade. This
was more or less what always happened until about 2000. However, by
then, the needs more or less remained the same and to be honest, a PC
from 2005 is still very useful today. Is it possible that people are
simply holding onto their hardware for longer and don't see the need for
a PC in general anymore when they have smartphones and tablets for their
modest needs?


--
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"Everything seems to work fine, except that occasionally everything
freezes." - Another one of GNU/Linux's many victims

Big Bad Bob wrote:

John Doe so wittily quipped:

The Settings window outline color is controlled by two separate
registry entries.

HKCU\Control Panel\Colors\TitleText (most of it)

HKCU\Control Panel\Colors\ButtonText (just the top)

Don't know why it is controlled by "Text" entries.

For the not so technically inclined, here's a picture...

https://www.flickr.com/photos/275322...in/photostream

Remember when the Windows startup logo was colorful? Apparently
abandoning that is related to the destruction of desktop
personalization.

and 2 years ago, 7 machines FLEW off of shelves while 8 machines
COLLECTED DUST. That's because Sinofsky's 2D "limited color" interface
STINKS compared to the 3D skeumorphic look of 7 and earlier.

Windows Vista and 7 were the turning point. Windows Vista is when
Microsoft started using horrid looking window borders. You still had
options in Windows 7, but Microsoft was already starting downhill.

OPTIONS and COLORS and 3D SKEUMORPHIC is what sold windows 3.x, and
was a BIG part of '9x's success.

That's why the Windows startup screen logo used to be so colorful.
Microsoft stopped innovating. Now you see Google promoting speech
recognition, that is something Microsoft should have done and perfected
a decade ago. The PC platform is hugely more capable than ultraportable
PCs but Microsoft stopped improving it.

This thing's theory about everybody's needs being satisfied is being
proven wrong by Apple's and Google's innovation in the ultraportable PC
market. The most glaring example is speech recognition that could have
been fully developed by Microsoft years ago if it were an innovator. Now
you see Google actively developing it, on ultraportable PCs no less!

This not quite grown-up troll recently allegedly kill filed me, yet
can't keep its trolling out of my thread...


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On 2016-01-13 5:29 PM, Big Bad Bob wrote:
On 01/02/16 20:26, John Doe so wittily quipped:
The Settings window outline color is controlled by two separate registry
entries.

HKCU\Control Panel\Colors\TitleText (most of it)

HKCU\Control Panel\Colors\ButtonText (just the top)

Don't know why it is controlled by "Text" entries.

For the not so technically inclined, here's a picture...

https://www.flickr.com/photos/27532210 N04/23772061359/in/photostream

Remember when the Windows startup logo was colorful? Apparently
abandoning that is related to the destruction of desktop
personalization.

Microsoft is flailing. It's trying to dominate/monopolize the
ultraportable PC market while it lets the Windows desktop crumble.

Will be fun to watch, one way or the other, shouldn't be very long
before Microsoft goes under or gets bailed out.

oh, noze! not ANOTHER BAILOUT!

Seriously, though, PC sales are DROPPING

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/01...ror_pc_market/

and 2 years ago, 7 machines FLEW off of shelves while 8 machines
COLLECTED DUST. That's because Sinofsky's 2D "limited color" interface
STINKS compared to the 3D skeumorphic look of 7 and earlier.

OPTIONS and COLORS and 3D SKEUMORPHIC is what sold windows 3.x, and was
a BIG part of '9x's success.

Microsoft should learn from their successes as WELL as their failures,
and adopt those things that WORK, instead of trying to CHANGE THE
CUSTOMER to ACCEPT the mediocre.

Is it possible that people aren't buying PCs simply because the need for
extra power simply isn't there? Let's face it, if you bought a PC in say
1982, it was worse than obsolete by 1984 and you had to upgrade. This
was more or less what always happened until about 2000. However, by
then, the needs more or less remained the same and to be honest, a PC
from 2005 is still very useful today. Is it possible that people are
simply holding onto their hardware for longer and don't see the need for
a PC in general anymore when they have smartphones and tablets for their
modest needs?


--
Slimer
EFF & OpenMedia member / IFAW, Mozilla & PETA supporter
"Everything seems to work fine, except that occasionally everything
freezes." - Another one of GNU/Linux's many victims

Slimer wrote on 1/13/2016 5:37 PM:
On 2016-01-13 5:29 PM, Big Bad Bob wrote:
On 01/02/16 20:26, John Doe so wittily quipped:
The Settings window outline color is controlled by two separate registry
entries.

HKCU\Control Panel\Colors\TitleText (most of it)

HKCU\Control Panel\Colors\ButtonText (just the top)

Don't know why it is controlled by "Text" entries.

For the not so technically inclined, here's a picture...

https://www.flickr.com/photos/275322...in/photostream

Remember when the Windows startup logo was colorful? Apparently
abandoning that is related to the destruction of desktop
personalization.

Microsoft is flailing. It's trying to dominate/monopolize the
ultraportable PC market while it lets the Windows desktop crumble.

Will be fun to watch, one way or the other, shouldn't be very long
before Microsoft goes under or gets bailed out.

oh, noze! not ANOTHER BAILOUT!

Seriously, though, PC sales are DROPPING

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/01...ror_pc_market/

and 2 years ago, 7 machines FLEW off of shelves while 8 machines
COLLECTED DUST. That's because Sinofsky's 2D "limited color" interface
STINKS compared to the 3D skeumorphic look of 7 and earlier.

OPTIONS and COLORS and 3D SKEUMORPHIC is what sold windows 3.x, and was
a BIG part of '9x's success.

Microsoft should learn from their successes as WELL as their failures,
and adopt those things that WORK, instead of trying to CHANGE THE
CUSTOMER to ACCEPT the mediocre.

Is it possible that people aren't buying PCs simply because the need for
extra power simply isn't there? Let's face it, if you bought a PC in say
1982, it was worse than obsolete by 1984 and you had to upgrade. This
was more or less what always happened until about 2000. However, by
then, the needs more or less remained the same and to be honest, a PC
from 2005 is still very useful today. Is it possible that people are
simply holding onto their hardware for longer and don't see the need for
a PC in general anymore when they have smartphones and tablets for their
modest needs?


Nice analysis, I go +1.

I used to upgrade frequently. My last PC buy was maybe 2008. It could
not update to W10 so I bought a new one. Specs? About the same. More
cores but same processor speed. It's a little bit speedier but not
much. And about half the price.

I'm thinking the hardware wars are over. What do you think?


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Ever wonder what the speed of lightning would be if it didn't zigzag?

On 2016-01-13 9:16 PM, Ed Mullen wrote:
Slimer wrote on 1/13/2016 5:37 PM:
On 2016-01-13 5:29 PM, Big Bad Bob wrote:
On 01/02/16 20:26, John Doe so wittily quipped:
The Settings window outline color is controlled by two separate
registry
entries.

HKCU\Control Panel\Colors\TitleText (most of it)

HKCU\Control Panel\Colors\ButtonText (just the top)

Don't know why it is controlled by "Text" entries.

For the not so technically inclined, here's a picture...

https://www.flickr.com/photos/275322...in/photostream

Remember when the Windows startup logo was colorful? Apparently
abandoning that is related to the destruction of desktop
personalization.

Microsoft is flailing. It's trying to dominate/monopolize the
ultraportable PC market while it lets the Windows desktop crumble.

Will be fun to watch, one way or the other, shouldn't be very long
before Microsoft goes under or gets bailed out.

oh, noze! not ANOTHER BAILOUT!

Seriously, though, PC sales are DROPPING

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/01...ror_pc_market/


and 2 years ago, 7 machines FLEW off of shelves while 8 machines
COLLECTED DUST. That's because Sinofsky's 2D "limited color" interface
STINKS compared to the 3D skeumorphic look of 7 and earlier.

OPTIONS and COLORS and 3D SKEUMORPHIC is what sold windows 3.x, and was
a BIG part of '9x's success.

Microsoft should learn from their successes as WELL as their failures,
and adopt those things that WORK, instead of trying to CHANGE THE
CUSTOMER to ACCEPT the mediocre.

Is it possible that people aren't buying PCs simply because the need for
extra power simply isn't there? Let's face it, if you bought a PC in say
1982, it was worse than obsolete by 1984 and you had to upgrade. This
was more or less what always happened until about 2000. However, by
then, the needs more or less remained the same and to be honest, a PC
from 2005 is still very useful today. Is it possible that people are
simply holding onto their hardware for longer and don't see the need for
a PC in general anymore when they have smartphones and tablets for their
modest needs?


Nice analysis, I go +1.

I used to upgrade frequently. My last PC buy was maybe 2008. It could
not update to W10 so I bought a new one. Specs? About the same. More
cores but same processor speed. It's a little bit speedier but not
much. And about half the price.

I'm thinking the hardware wars are over. What do you think?

Manufacturers will have to sell us on features rather than hardware
nowadays. Only gamers will be tempted into new PC purchases because it
will allow them to play their games at higher resolutions and with more
detail. However, regular users will be content as long as they can
browse, word process, do spreadsheets, send e-mail and on social
networks. If they have a PC from a decade ago in the house, they can do
all of that and if word processing and spreadsheets aren't necessary, a
$100 tablet will do as will a smartphone they got for free with a new plan.

My solution? Go back to how things were in the 1980s were there were a
number of manufacturers offering drastically different solutions. You
had the Amiga from Commodore on one end, the ST from Atari on the other,
a PC and a Mac in between. Each provided their own idea of what home
computing should be like. We know who won and why, but in an age where
most information is on the cloud, where ports like USB are becoming
useless to most and where advances in the speed of technology is
becoming less and less noticeable, it would be possible for a handful of
companies to provide very different takes on the modern desktop all the
while maintaining compatibility with standard formats and offering all
of the same software solutions that customers are looking for. As it is,
all manufacturers are doing is improving the speed of hardware but let's
be honest, the GUI experience hasn't changed drastically, their old
hardware isn't THAT slow and people are bored with PCs in general.
Giving them a new experience might re-excite them.

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Slimer
EFF & OpenMedia member / IFAW, Mozilla & PETA supporter
"Everything seems to work fine, except that occasionally everything
freezes." - Another one of GNU/Linux's many victims