How do I change my destop icon text from white to a darker color

"Unknown" wrote:

Limeys have a different meaning for the word 'interpreted'.

In the UK, does it mean "can't freaking read"?


"Mike Torello" wrote in message
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"Justin Thyme" wrote:

Double-check - do you actually have an entry
in the drop-down saying "Selected Icons"?

I do indeed. Third up from the bottom.

Ken Bland


Another addendum:

My interpretation of "Selected Items" was incorrect.

Interpretation???

Lame.

You had the OP and others searching for something that doesn't exist
because you "interpreted" that "items" is the same as "icons".

"Justin Thyme" wrote in message
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"Olórin" wrote in message
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"Justin Thyme" wrote in message
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Addendum:

"Unknown" wrote in message
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Selected Icons?????? What windows version are you using?
"Justin Thyme" wrote in message
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Version number is 5.1

Ken Bland



He was being sarcastic, Ken. Double-check - do you actually have an
entry
in
the drop-down saying "Selected Icons"?

I do indeed. Third up from the bottom.

Ken Bland





If it actually, really, genuinely, "I've-double-checked-it-carefully" does
say "Icons" and not "Items" then someone or something has tweaked your
machine's registry.

In that case, I apologise.

"Unknown" wrote in message
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I was not or did not mean to be sarcastic. I don't find a 'selected icons'
on my system. I thought he was using
some other version of XP than the one I have.
"Olórin" wrote in message
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"Justin Thyme" wrote in message
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Addendum:

"Unknown" wrote in message
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Selected Icons?????? What windows version are you using?
"Justin Thyme" wrote in message
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Version number is 5.1

Ken Bland



He was being sarcastic, Ken. Double-check - do you actually have an
entry
in
the drop-down saying "Selected Icons"?

There was no misinterpretation of your *language*, just your meaning. That
was probably because I'm not a Londoner, which you oddly assume.

"Unknown" wrote in message
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BTW, most you Londoners misinterpret our English (American) language.
"Olórin" wrote in message
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"Justin Thyme" wrote in message
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Addendum:

"Unknown" wrote in message
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Selected Icons?????? What windows version are you using?
"Justin Thyme" wrote in message
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Version number is 5.1

Ken Bland



He was being sarcastic, Ken. Double-check - do you actually have an
entry
in
the drop-down saying "Selected Icons"?

Are you being sarcastic *now*? bg

"Unknown" wrote in message
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Limeys have a different meaning for the word 'interpreted'.
"Mike Torello" wrote in message
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"Justin Thyme" wrote:

Double-check - do you actually have an entry
in the drop-down saying "Selected Icons"?

I do indeed. Third up from the bottom.

Ken Bland


Another addendum:

My interpretation of "Selected Items" was incorrect.

Interpretation???

Lame.

You had the OP and others searching for something that doesn't exist
because you "interpreted" that "items" is the same as "icons".

English however?
"Olórin" wrote in message
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There was no misinterpretation of your *language*, just your meaning. That
was probably because I'm not a Londoner, which you oddly assume.

"Unknown" wrote in message
...
BTW, most you Londoners misinterpret our English (American) language.
"Olórin" wrote in message
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"Justin Thyme" wrote in message
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Addendum:

"Unknown" wrote in message
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Selected Icons?????? What windows version are you using?
"Justin Thyme" wrote in message
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Version number is 5.1

Ken Bland



He was being sarcastic, Ken. Double-check - do you actually have an
entry
in
the drop-down saying "Selected Icons"?

"Cindy" wrote in message
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| On my Windows desktop my Icons are a white font color. I changed my
| wallpaper, which had a dark background to one with a light background.
My
| new background makes the text
| really hard to read. The background is now a light gray with the fonts
| being
| white.
| How do I change the text to a darker color? The icons themselves are
| fine and I do not want to touch them but it would be nice to have the
text
| a
| darker color.
| Thanks in advance for any help you can give me.
|
|

Hi Cindy,
I set my desktop (Xp Home SP3) a long time ago, but I traced along the steps
that JT gave you, and worked for me.
When you say you changed the wallpaper, did you do it in Control
panel/desktop/appearance /advanced/then from the "item" long list select
'desktop'?
On my pc the 'colour 1' dropbox for desktop, determines the background
colour of the box of the desktop icon, as I have a picture as my wallpaper.
The colour of the icon text, and the icon font type is selected from
"icon"from the long dropdown list as I see it.
My combo is light gray background and black text.

Rob.

Yup.

"Unknown" wrote in message
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English however?
"Olórin" wrote in message
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There was no misinterpretation of your *language*, just your meaning.
That
was probably because I'm not a Londoner, which you oddly assume.

"Unknown" wrote in message
...
BTW, most you Londoners misinterpret our English (American) language.
"Olórin" wrote in message
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"Justin Thyme" wrote in message
...
Addendum:

"Unknown" wrote in message
...
Selected Icons?????? What windows version are you using?
"Justin Thyme" wrote in message
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Version number is 5.1

Ken Bland



He was being sarcastic, Ken. Double-check - do you actually have an
entry
in
the drop-down saying "Selected Icons"?

Hi Cindy,

In order to change the desktop icon text you need to use a third party
application.
CursorArts has a free app named ActivIcons:
http://www.cursorarts.com/ca_ai_d.html

Once ActiIcons is installed, run it, in the left pane click Interface,
change the text color to what you want, close ActivIcons and reboot.

--

Brian A. Sesko { MS MVP_Windows Desktop Experience }
Conflicts start where information lacks.
http://basconotw.mvps.org/

Suggested posting do's/don'ts: http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm
How to ask a question: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375


"Cindy" wrote in message
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On my Windows desktop my Icons are a white font color. I changed my
wallpaper, which had a dark background to one with a light background.
My new background makes the text
really hard to read. The background is now a light gray with the fonts
being
white.
How do I change the text to a darker color? The icons themselves are
fine and I do not want to touch them but it would be nice to have the
text a
darker color.
Thanks in advance for any help you can give me.