computer question

1.I recently put a new background on my desktop,with the new background the
white letters under each of my icons on the desktop is unreadable in some areas
I want to change the letters under the icons to red.I went to start,control
panel,display,and advanced and brought down the drop down menu
Only problem is I cant figure out which one of those things to change the color
on.
does anyone know?

OS is Windows XP

thanks in advance

ED

Edwardonthewebb

you can't change the color of the icon text itself, using just window's
options. Other 3rd party software might allow you to customize that, but
windows doesn't. You can, however, turn off the drop shadow option in XP
that allows the transparent text background, so that the highlight box will
always be there to contrast with the text. Just go to the system properties,
and in the advanced/performance section, uncheck "use drop shadows". Then
whatever you set the desktop background color to be in the appearance
properties, make sure it's relatively dark. Then, all the icons will have
the old Win9x-style text box with a colored background.


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"Edwardonthewebb" <> wrote in message
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> 1.I recently put a new background on my desktop,with the new background
the
> white letters under each of my icons on the desktop is unreadable in some
areas
> I want to change the letters under the icons to red.I went to
start,control
> panel,display,and advanced and brought down the drop down menu
> Only problem is I cant figure out which one of those things to change the
color
> on.
> does anyone know?
>
> OS is Windows XP
>
> thanks in advance
>
> ED