Desktop Icons, Changing Color of Text and Background

Hi 98 Guy,

Thank you and Lostgallifreyan for your responses.

I have two books, "Windows 98 Secrets" and "Windows 98 Resource". I could
not find a way to do what I want in those books. That is why I posted that
message.

I read your responses and thanks to you(s), I have concluded that MS did
not provide a way for us to change the text color or it's background color.

Many Thanks, John


On Tue, 31 May 2011 09:01:12 -0400, in microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
you wrote:

wrote:

Does anyone know how to change the color of the Desktop icons
text, which includes the background color of the text?

http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000841.htm

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Question: How can I change the text color of my icons in Windows?

Answer:

All versions of Microsoft Windows do not support the ability to change
the color of the icons text on the desktop without the aid of a
third-party program. Therefore in order to change the icon text color
you will need to download and install one of the below programs.

Note: Before downloading any of the below programs it is important to
know that Microsoft Windows refreshes the contents of the desktop often
and will reset the icon text color back to the Windows default unless
the program you used to change the text color is left open in memory.

There are dozens of different programs with the capability to do this.
Below is a short list of a few of the different programs we've tried.

* Iconoid - Great free and open source program with the ability to
easily change the icon text color as well as numerous other features
such as hiding the icons, setting and restoring icon positions, and much
more.

http://www.sillysot.com/


* Microangelo - Another great program that is free to try but requires a
registration if you like. This program has the ability to change the
icons text color and much more.

(no link given for Microangelo)
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This is just a description of Microangelo:
http://www.rainbowpcm.com/microangelo_5.html

This seems to be the main web-page for it:
http://www.impactsoft.com/

But you need to register and it may very well not be free.

Here's a link to Microangelo 5.5:
http://downloads.5star-network.com/Desktop/mua55.exe

It seems to date to mid to late 2004.

wrote in
:

I read your responses and thanks to you(s), I have concluded that MS
did
not provide a way for us to change the text color or it's background
color.


But you can still do it,. right? That 'Transparent v4.2' tool will definitely
do it easily and cleanly. I've been using that for 10 years now. If this
newsgroup took binaries I'd send it, but 98guy found you a direct link in the
Wayback machine.. That tool is as neat as it gets. Even if M$ had done it
themselves I doubt the method would have been any smaller or tidier.