Windows 7: Desktop icon font

You can't change the font color, but you can change it to bold, which helps the text pop out against the background better.

Icon text color is always greyscale from white to black, Windows changes it depending on background brightness, defaulting to white unless white wouuld not be clearly visible.

The icon text font and a great many other aspects of the window appearace can be changed at:
Control Panel -> Personalize -> Window Color -> Advanced


Hope this helps.

Where did you get that idea? It stays white on a black drop shadow no matter what.

Edit: Never mind. It seems one has to log off and on again - at least sometimes - to see this change.

-Noel

One of the Visual Effects you can tweak under Control Panel -> System -> Advanced System Settings -> Performance
is "Use Drop Shadows for Icons on the desktop" (in my version of Windows 7, this is the second last item). Turning it off gives me a satisfactory result; the desktop icons now look good against my light-colored solid background. The change took effect immediately.

Microsoft states that it is not possible to change the icon font color in Windows 7. This is not entirely true. It IS possible using a 3rd party program (Iconoid 3.8.6). You must first turn off the drop shadow effect in order to use this program, but the effect is to give control of this parameter back to the computer owner.
I understand Microsofts reasoning in doing what they did with this font color option, but to say that it is not possible to accomplish a color change is just flat out wrong. Further, if MS wanted to they could have easily left this option available to their users, but as we all know, Microsoft knows best

This is very simple to do with no 3rd party program. You just gotta know how to

Personalize > Windows Color > Advanced Settings > select DESKTOP (not icon...)
and change the color there, if you set it to black, icon font will be white and vice versa.