Changing text color in places MS does not want us to.
Sure wish Microsoft could put an option in their 7/8/10 systems to have text color options that can override more places.
like menus and taskbar.
I was reading posts that go back to 2007, where people ask Microsoft how to change text color on task bar,
as the Win 7 glass buttons are hard to read.
All they say is have to use third party fixes.
Tried one way for taskbar for win7 using a modified aero.msstyle:
http://www.sevenforums.com/customizatio ... color.html
This shows how little I know about Hex editors, I couldn't even find the exact hex number.
Moving the window changes it all over the place.
I guessed the FF FF FF must be close by, and luckily it worked for the buttons,
and clock to make black text.
I then found a better way to do same thing with msstyler:
http://www.betaarchive.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=28246
It showed me the hex editor changed "Taskband2" and "TrayNotify::clock" to black text color.
It's a good little program.
Then I try it for Win 10.
I could never figure out to get it to make the Win 10 taskbar change text color.
MS must have overwritten everything in updates, and have in different places higher up.
Microsoft, by now, must have unique ways of incorporating text color that can change with its surroundings.
An AI that detects and changes hue, brightness, automatically for best visibility. A step above clear text.
All they need to do is implement it?
Ok, I'm done complaining, and playing with msstyles. too much to learn.
I'm still using Microsoft.
If anybody wants the Windows 7 .msstyles files that I experimented with, I put them in a zip.
No idea if they work on a different Windows 7 machine.
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