I want to change my desktop icons font to a black colour. This was easy in Win 7 but cant figure it out in 8.1. Someone said they had cracked by using Registry Editor (colours Appearnce change value to 000) but it did not work for me

• Edited by JOHN IVES Friday, February 20, 2015 1:48 PM

Incidentally the original values were different to those you gave i.e. 171 not 157
. Mean anything ?

• Edited by JOHN IVES Friday, February 20, 2015 3:43 PM

A friend has suggested going into PC Settings Ease of Access High Contrast and play around with it. This works but I have a completely white background but black text . Visually it works but you loose screen saver etc ie it is truly High Contrast. Thanks for your help

• Proposed as answer by MeipoXuMicrosoft contingent staff, Moderator Saturday, February 21, 2015 6:21 AM
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A friend has suggested going into PC Settings Ease of Access High Contrast and play around with it. This works but I have a completely white background but black text . Visually it works but you loose screen saver etc ie it is truly High Contrast. Thanks for your help

• Proposed as answer by MeipoXu Saturday, February 21, 2015 6:21 AM

Good luck with that.

Try using a dark (e.g., astronomy image) background and the white text will be more visible.

-Noel

Dear All

Was never able to effect a change to Desktop Icon Font Colour in Windows 8.1. I now have Windows 10 and still cant find a way. Has anyone out there investigated this yet ?

Regards

John Ives