Dark theme/Fullglass,properties window font color black-how to change?


  1. Posts : 14
    Windows 7 64-Bit
       #1

    Dark theme/Fullglass,properties window font color black-how to change?


    Hello.

    I'm using a dark theme, with fullglass to have transparency on all Explorer windows. Everything looks fine, except Properties pop-up windows--they all have black font colors on dark backgrounds, and are impossible to read.

    I found links to the actual fonts themselves:
    HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\FontSubstitutes\
    MS Shell Dlg
    MS Shell Dlg 2

    These will let me alter the font type, but not its color.

    Oh, I am so very very glad Microsoft, in their infinite wisdom, decided basic color functionality was too much responsibility for us weak-minded peons. I wouldn't even need a 3rd-party theme and hacked files if I could just adjust the Windows Explorer background color to a default of black for all folders.

    Does anyone have any idea how to alter this attribute? Attached is a pic of the issue.
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  2. Posts : 284
    Windows 7 Professional 64bit
       #2

    Try Personalization/Window Color and Appearance/Advanced appearance settings
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  3. Posts : 12,120
    Win 7 Pro x64 / Win 10 Pro
       #3

    Sorry some black text in properties windows cannot be changed it's hard coded and so far no one has found it.
    Jerry
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  4. Posts : 14
    Windows 7 64-Bit
    Thread Starter
       #4

    Well dangit. Why does Microsoft continue to do this? Continue to take away previously existing functionality? Like, oh I dunno, an easy-to-use search function that doesn't require I learn an entire syntax/language? Or the ability to change the colors?
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