Desktop Icon Font Color - How do I change the font color of the text that describes desktop icons?

Anonymous
2010-02-18T11:16:49+00:00

I am running Windows 7 Ultimate 32 bit. How do I change the font color that describes the desktop icons?

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Anonymous
2010-02-18T11:56:09+00:00

I am running Windows 7 Ultimate 32 bit. How do I change the font color that describes the desktop icons?

Hi

You cannot change the Desktop font color.

Because Desktop wallpaper images have varying colors, it is easy for the font colors to be unreadable if they are on top of the same color as a wallpaper image. For instance a black font on top of a dark part of the background image or a white font on a white part of a background image.

The Desktop icon fonts are dynamic and will show white on dark backgrounds and change to white with a black shadow effect on a light background.

Hope this helps.

Thank You for using Windows 7

Ronnie Vernon MVP

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  1. Anonymous
    2014-04-18T16:57:15+00:00

    Except...your reasons suck. Come on Microsoft, I've been using Windows for almost 20 years. Some of these changes are extremely lame and there is no reason for them! I highly doubt anyone was complaining "hey microsoft, there are too many choices! Please take them away!" We all liked being able to make the font whatever colors we liked, then you took it away. You can repost the same response over and over but the truth remains that the two choices you left us with suck. I like to use photos as my background, and the photos have different colors throughout, so typically neither of your two choices work.

    While I'm at it, off topic, but Windows 8 realllly sucks. Why on earth do that to people? Not everyone wants a table-style touch screen-style set up. It is AWFUL and I happen to be very computer savvy. Thank goodness we still have 7 at work but when we switch over it will be a nightmare.

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  2. Anonymous
    2014-04-18T17:12:58+00:00

    This didn't work for me. I changed the desktop color 1 from black to white but the icons still have a white color with black shading which not only doesn't show very well, it HURTS MY EYES. Thanks Microsoft.

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  3. Anonymous
    2014-04-18T17:14:25+00:00

    I don't have "item background" as a choice in the drop down menu. I tried changing desktop color as someone else suggested but that didn't change my font color. GRRR.

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  4. Anonymous
    2014-05-04T16:44:52+00:00

    I just found a really stupidly easy way to change the color from white to black cuz I was having this problem too.

    You go to CONTROL PANEL and in the "search control panel" bar at the top type in "COLOR SCHEME"

    then click on the CHANGE WINDOWS COLORS AND METRICS that pops up in the list

    DESKTOP will automatically come up and, this was the problem with mine, the default color of the background is black therefore making the font of the icons white, but if you turn the color to white the font will now be black.

    I only managed to change it from white to black and was happy with that, but I'm not sure about other colors.

    Nice job, Cat! You may want to apply for the MVP position at Microsoft... You are also able to change the font color to any color you wish.

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