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

How can Microsoft make more intense themes and forget to allow us as office workers and home parents not be able to color code our desktop? We use and need to have a system, we use, color code them and especially change the font.. Just so we can read them easier as we are multitasking. The fonts have been interchangeable for a very long time... did Microsoft forget about customer convenience???? It is just wrong we want to create things that are easy for us to continue through this new 21st century? The MIcrosoft Corporation is losing their focus on the households who came through and continues too...by buying a piece of technology per person if NOT more than one piece, the little people who matter in the household home world! Microsoft should at least let us color code our icons I guess I will patent this idea and Microsoft can by it from me!!!.

I have a MBA and cannot find a job for more than 10 dollars a hour but I can "THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX,,,," and I have so many more ideas for so many things especially the typical hourly computer user and  the customer service employees. But for the day to day administrator who is a junior/high school parent, and also a college student. We need something that lets all of us multitask without over-stressing ourselves! Do you know how hard it is for an office administrator (who makes $10 an hour) to take their deserved vacation days? We are never off, someone always calls.

Sherri

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So what is the point to in having the option to remove the dropshadow on icon text if it leaves the text unreadable?

I too hate the dropshadow, so I dug deep in the settings to turn it off, now I can't see my icon labels because I have been forbidden to change the icon font color.  I am forced to either use the dropshadow or change my desktop wallpaper (which, btw, reads "I wish I were a mac")

I agree , apart from the visual impairment option , if I pay for something I will choose the colours (note the correct spelling as well)  that I want.

This whole thread just sums up Microsofts attitude to it's customers perfectly ,

I am very disappointed to hear that this cannot be changed.  I am in the unfortunate position of having visual issues and work for a company that has a solid white background on the corporate desktop as part of our branding.  I can read solid black on white, but the white with shadowng does not offer me the contrast I need to read the icons.  I've played with the icon size.

I don't need to use the other enhancements that are offered as this is the only place in the system I am having issues with so far on my new corporate laptop.

It seems to me that Microsoft has taken a large step backwards in making the system useful for those of us with mile visual impairments.

Liz