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

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Justin Thyme said:
Addendum:



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 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 said:
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
 
Hi Justin,
I didn't think this would be so hard to do. I am using XP SP3. I do not
have a choice of 'selected icons' - I have Desktop, icon, icon spacing,
etc. But no selected icons. When I select Icon it is giving me a choice
of size and font, but no color choice. Looks like I will have to either
change my wallpaper or just live with the white font color.
Any other suggestions.
Thanks, Cindy in AR
 
Justin Thyme said:
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".
 
Mike Torello said:
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".

Aw, gee, Mike, you've done gone and hurt my feelers.

May I please be excused now?

Ken Bland
 
Justin Thyme said:
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 said:
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.
 
There was no misinterpretation of your *language*, just your meaning. That
was probably because I'm not a Londoner, which you oddly assume.
 
| 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.
 
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