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
    2015-04-24T19:20:34+00:00

    Thank you..  It worked for me.

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  2. Anonymous
    2015-04-17T15:02:11+00:00

    I agree, they should have never made these changes. I want to change the color because I can't see the font against my background.

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  3. Anonymous
    2015-04-05T00:54:13+00:00

    Hello. How do I change the font size on tool bar search please?

    I hope I asked the question correctly.

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  4. Anonymous
    2015-04-01T15:59:00+00:00

    From all the posts, I will assume it can not be done. But if someone was going to have a Windows 7 theme that allowed Icon display control by users, 

    I have 2 icons that are similar in general appearance. One has the word -offline at the end of the name.

    I wanted to make its font color red without changing any other icon. (To help decrease chance of picking the wrong icon to use)

    I do not want to make any global changes that impact all icons, how about changing the font color for a single font only? How do you do that?  Ideal to me would be a font tab added to the properties for the icon.  Select what you need.....

    Bryan

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