| Windows 7: How do I change Highlighted items text colour-Win7 |
14 Oct 2012
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#1 | | Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit Australia |
How do I change Highlighted items text colour-Win7 Hello, first post for help here. So I have been using a custom theme for windows 7 and that includes changing the highlight of an items colour. In my case it turns orange but the problem is the text colour when selected, being very hard to see against the orange. How would I go about changing the colour of the text thats highlighted?(screenshot attached)
Thanks in advance | My System Specs |
| Computer type Laptop System Manufacturer/Model Number HP OS Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit Internet Speed Slowmo Antivirus Avast Antivirus Browser Chrome |
14 Oct 2012
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#2 | | Windows 7 Ultimate X64 SP1 Mt. Crumpit/Whoville |
Hi Welcome to Seven Forums Heretoask.
Navigate to Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Personalization and follow the diagram below. | My System Specs | | Computer type PC/Desktop System Manufacturer/Model Number Home Built Desktop By DataTech OS Windows 7 Ultimate X64 SP1 CPU Intel i5-2550K, Differing ~4.4-4.8GHz No built in GPU Motherboard ASUS P8Z68-V PRO/GEN3 Memory 16GB G.Skill Sniper 2133MHz 4x4GB Graphics Card ASUS ENGTX460 DirectCU/2DI/1GD5 GeForce GTX 460 Sound Card Onboard Realtek 5-1 Monitor(s) Displays Samsung P2570HD Screen Resolution 1920x1080 Keyboard Old, beat-up Dell USB From 10 yrs Ago Mouse Gigabyte m6900 wired PSU Corsair HX650W Case Inwin Dragon Rider Cooling Hyper 212 EVO w/two Noctua fans, push-pull, @1300 RPM Hard Drives Crucial M4 128GB for OS, 750GB Seagate MomentusXT for data, 500GB Seagate Constellation for storage Internet Speed 8-19 Mbs down, 3-4 Mbs up Comcast Cable Antivirus Norton Internet Security Browser IE 9, Opera when needed Other Info 4 case fans, LG BluRay-RE, ASUS DVD-RW, Mr. Fusion power generator with flux capacitor, 1.21 gigawatts. |
14 Oct 2012
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#3 | | Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit Australia |
Hello  , Thanks for the reply however changing the "selected items" colour in windows colour and appearance only affects text that is highlighted and not folders or files | My System Specs | | Computer type Laptop System Manufacturer/Model Number HP OS Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit Internet Speed Slowmo Antivirus Avast Antivirus Browser Chrome |
14 Oct 2012
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#4 | | Windows 7 Ultimate X64 SP1 Mt. Crumpit/Whoville |
Well that's not right is it? 
I would think your theme software would have options to do that. I'll see if a theme expert can help you, he's offline now though. | My System Specs | | Computer type PC/Desktop System Manufacturer/Model Number Home Built Desktop By DataTech OS Windows 7 Ultimate X64 SP1 CPU Intel i5-2550K, Differing ~4.4-4.8GHz No built in GPU Motherboard ASUS P8Z68-V PRO/GEN3 Memory 16GB G.Skill Sniper 2133MHz 4x4GB Graphics Card ASUS ENGTX460 DirectCU/2DI/1GD5 GeForce GTX 460 Sound Card Onboard Realtek 5-1 Monitor(s) Displays Samsung P2570HD Screen Resolution 1920x1080 Keyboard Old, beat-up Dell USB From 10 yrs Ago Mouse Gigabyte m6900 wired PSU Corsair HX650W Case Inwin Dragon Rider Cooling Hyper 212 EVO w/two Noctua fans, push-pull, @1300 RPM Hard Drives Crucial M4 128GB for OS, 750GB Seagate MomentusXT for data, 500GB Seagate Constellation for storage Internet Speed 8-19 Mbs down, 3-4 Mbs up Comcast Cable Antivirus Norton Internet Security Browser IE 9, Opera when needed Other Info 4 case fans, LG BluRay-RE, ASUS DVD-RW, Mr. Fusion power generator with flux capacitor, 1.21 gigawatts. |
14 Oct 2012
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#5 | | Win 7 Pro x64 Council Bluffs, Iowa |
Welcome to the Seven Forums
Post a link to the custom theme so I can look at it.
Jerry | My System Specs | | Computer type Laptop System Manufacturer/Model Number Sager NP9170 OS Win 7 Pro x64 CPU Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3630QM CPU @ 2.40GHz Motherboard CLEVO P170EM Memory 12 GB Graphics Card (1) Intel(R) HD Graphics 4000 (2) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 675M Sound Card (1) Realtek High Definition Audio (2) Intel(R) Display Aud Monitor(s) Displays 17.3 Screen Resolution 1920x1080 Keyboard Backlite Hard Drives (1) M4-CT256M4SSD2 ATA Device 256 GB (2) ST9500424AS ATA Device 500 GB Antivirus MSE, Malwarebytes Pro Browser Firefox |
15 Oct 2012
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#6 | | Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit Australia |
Here is the link to the theme, Snow Kombo by =kiko11 on deviantART and also the orange highlight thats been added from another theme, Maverick Maverick for Win7 by ~dpcdpc11 on deviantART . I have taken these images from theme 2 and replaced them with the first to create the orange highlight using Resource Hacker/Style Builder.
.msstyles>Explorer & Shell>Explorer>Items View>ListView>ListItem>hot, selected, selectednotfocus, hotselected
>Explorer & Shell>Explorer>ListView View>ListView>ListItem>hot, selected, selectednotfocus, hotselected | My System Specs | | Computer type Laptop System Manufacturer/Model Number HP OS Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit Internet Speed Slowmo Antivirus Avast Antivirus Browser Chrome |
15 Oct 2012
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#7 | | Win 7 Pro x64 Council Bluffs, Iowa |
Here are the locations for those text colors (look at screenshot)
Red text
Fonts, Colors & System Metrics > Fonts & System Metrics > WINDOWTEXT:COLOR (this will change some other text colors to)
Green text
Explorer & Shell > Explorer > Items View > ItemsView > Subheader > Normal > WINDOWTEXT:COLOR
Jerry | My System Specs | | Computer type Laptop System Manufacturer/Model Number Sager NP9170 OS Win 7 Pro x64 CPU Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3630QM CPU @ 2.40GHz Motherboard CLEVO P170EM Memory 12 GB Graphics Card (1) Intel(R) HD Graphics 4000 (2) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 675M Sound Card (1) Realtek High Definition Audio (2) Intel(R) Display Aud Monitor(s) Displays 17.3 Screen Resolution 1920x1080 Keyboard Backlite Hard Drives (1) M4-CT256M4SSD2 ATA Device 256 GB (2) ST9500424AS ATA Device 500 GB Antivirus MSE, Malwarebytes Pro Browser Firefox How do I change Highlighted items text colour-Win7 problems? All times are GMT -5. The time now is 07:31 AM. | |