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

charlyoak's reply on October 16, 2016 solved the problem for me, so thanks to him/her. I have Windows 7 set to "Adjust for best performance" under System > Advanced > Visual Effects > Performance > Settings. I just checked "Use drop shadows for icon labels on the desktop" on that same dialogue and now my desktop icon labels are readable.

(I have to say though charlyoak - if you must use screenshots you ought to learn how to use Alt+PrintScreen to screenshot the current window to clipboard!)

I agree wholeheartedly, if somewhat less passionately than some of these posts.

A solid light blue desktop with plain black font below the icons, should not be beyond the capabilities of Windows 7. It looks fine when I start up, but mysteriously reverts to the ugly, hard to read "shadow" font at some ill-chosen time. Quite annoying. I understand Ronnie's demo, but why has Microsoft chosen to cater to the clutter crowd at the expense of the clean crowd?

The shadowed text on the white background looks like ****. I want to have a simple black text on white background. This is another example of Microsoft thinking for us, and thinking wrong. Please don't respond with another "Don't worry you're pretty little heads" response. We all know Microsoft had it's reason for not allowing us to change this setting, but they were obviously wrong. Yes, Microsoft, you are W-R-O-N-G. You're job is to give the customer what they want, instead you took it away. You did the opposite of what you were suppose to do, making you wrong.

This may be more info than people want to know, but I changed my solid medium blue desktop in Windows 7 to a yellowish weave design that I used on my Mac.  I changed because the blue color, as I recently learned at a medical conference, is used by NASA (and others) to change astronauts' sleep/wake cycles, and I thought it might be affecting my sleep (which is poor).

So when I changed to this weave pattern, the default white font with black shadow was very hard for my 47 y/o eyes to read.  I do not have to use glasses yet so it is not a visual precision issue.  I changed to windows 7 basic, and under control panel, searched "change windows color" and then clicked "Change windows colors and metrics", and from there changed the desktop color to white and font color to black.  Shadow is gone, the font is black and I can read the icon fonts much easier.

For the person from Microsoft to state that this is what is best for all, has not walked a mile in our shoes.  Defense of something that is wrong really shows the stupidity of how corporations and our government tell us everything is fine, don't worry.  Their idea is to tell us this is what you got, don't complain.  Mac OS X Snow Leopard does a lot , but not all things, better!