Windows desktop icon colors

Click Desktop Background. Pull down the Location menu and select Solid Colors. Click the white square if you want white text, pick the black square. Select the wallpaper, then click OK. Once you turn off the drop shadows, potentially ugly boxes appear around the captions. If you pick white as your background color like I recommended with Vista , they look particularly ugly.

Any more feedback? The more you tell us the more we can help. Can you help us improve? Resolved my issue. Clear instructions. Easy to follow. No jargon. Pictures helped. I have the exact same problem. I can't seem to change the font color under the desktop icons to black. There doe not seem to be a way to change the font color without using the high contrast theme setting. The font color should have the ability to be change at all levels of the personel settings.

Friday, July 12, PM. This is ridiculous. The system is clearly capable of altering the desktop icon text color and size. The current scheme And no, the high contrast option is a sledgehammer that carries with it several other significant disadvantages.

Why we are locked out of this sort of simple change is mystifying. Wednesday, October 9, AM. People have been complaining about this literally for years, and it wouldn't be technically difficult for Microsoft to fix.

The white text with a shadow is almost illegible and the "High Contrast" scheme is just not what most of us want. Why won't they listen to us? Friday, January 17, PM. I absolutely agree with you, a typical Microsoft ploy. A youngster within Microsoft has decided on white for the icons, just wait until they get a little older and cannot see so well anymore. When the writing in the icons was black I could read them perfectly, but now they have turned them to white I do so with great difficulty.

Yours fraternally John. Details required : characters remaining Cancel Submit people found this reply helpful. Was this reply helpful? Yes No. Sorry this didn't help. Thanks for your feedback. I have a wallpaper that is mostly white and that prevents me from reading my icons' text labels without clicking on them. There are great instructions for changing the color for Win8 and prior, but things have changed in Win10 and those instructions seem to be no longer applicable.

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