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Personalization titles colors

  1. #1


    Eustace Guest

    Personalization titles colors

    When I open Personalization, the links on the left column and the
    titles/links on the right are hardly discernible because I use navy
    background. (Changing the Unvisited links color in the Internet Options
    does not affect them.) How do I make them light blue?

    emf



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  2. #2


    Eustace Guest

    Re: Personalization titles colors

    On 2009-07-02 19:05 Eustace wrote:

    > When I open Personalization, the links on the left column and the
    > titles/links on the right are hardly discernible because I use navy
    > background. (Changing the Unvisited links color in the Internet Options
    > does not affect them.) How do I make them light blue?
    >
    > emf
    Let me rephrase my question. I have found that the 29 color designations
    in the theme file are written in the Registry in
    HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel, with names like ActiveBorder,
    ActiveTitle, AppWorkSpace, etc. There should be some other Registry
    settings for colors, because the Links color in the Personalization
    screen appear also in other cases, like for example when you left-click
    on the connection icon in the Taskbar, the there are 2 blue links at the
    bottom; in this case their background is the 3D Objects background.
    Where do they get their blue color from?

    Are the 29 keywords that accept colors that are included in the theme
    file the only ones available?

    emf

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  3. #3


    Jon Guest

    Re: Personalization titles colors

    "Eustace" <emfril@xxxxxx> wrote in message
    news:eoKbUcP$JHA.1340@xxxxxx

    > On 2009-07-02 19:05 Eustace wrote:

    >> When I open Personalization, the links on the left column and the
    >> titles/links on the right are hardly discernible because I use navy
    >> background. (Changing the Unvisited links color in the Internet Options
    >> does not affect them.) How do I make them light blue?
    >>
    >> emf
    >
    > Let me rephrase my question. I have found that the 29 color designations
    > in the theme file are written in the Registry in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control
    > Panel, with names like ActiveBorder, ActiveTitle, AppWorkSpace, etc. There
    > should be some other Registry settings for colors, because the Links color
    > in the Personalization screen appear also in other cases, like for example
    > when you left-click on the connection icon in the Taskbar, the there are 2
    > blue links at the bottom; in this case their background is the 3D Objects
    > background. Where do they get their blue color from?
    >
    > Are the 29 keywords that accept colors that are included in the theme file
    > the only ones available?
    >


    You can change a few hyperlink colours, although perhaps not the ones you
    want, via

    Right-click desktop > Personalize > Window Color and Appearance > Open
    classic appearance properties > Advanced > 'Hyperlink' in dropdown box.

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  4. #4


    Eustace Guest

    Re: Personalization titles colors

    On 2009-07-05 07:46 Jon wrote:

    > "Eustace" <emfril@xxxxxx> wrote in message
    > news:eoKbUcP$JHA.1340@xxxxxx

    >> On 2009-07-02 19:05 Eustace wrote:

    >>> When I open Personalization, the links on the left column and the
    >>> titles/links on the right are hardly discernible because I use navy
    >>> background. (Changing the Unvisited links color in the Internet
    >>> Options does not affect them.) How do I make them light blue?
    >>>
    >>> emf
    >>
    >> Let me rephrase my question. I have found that the 29 color
    >> designations in the theme file are written in the Registry in
    >> HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel, with names like ActiveBorder,
    >> ActiveTitle, AppWorkSpace, etc. There should be some other Registry
    >> settings for colors, because the Links color in the Personalization
    >> screen appear also in other cases, like for example when you
    >> left-click on the connection icon in the Taskbar, the there are 2 blue
    >> links at the bottom; in this case their background is the 3D Objects
    >> background. Where do they get their blue color from?
    >>
    >> Are the 29 keywords that accept colors that are included in the theme
    >> file the only ones available?
    >>
    >
    >
    >
    > You can change a few hyperlink colours, although perhaps not the ones
    > you want, via
    >
    > Right-click desktop > Personalize > Window Color and Appearance > Open
    > classic appearance properties > Advanced > 'Hyperlink' in dropdown box.
    Thank you! This is the one I wanted! It works splendidly! The question
    is how I had managed to miss the Hyperlink in the dropdown box that I
    had gone up and down several times over the last several years (unless
    it was not there in earlier versions of Windows).

    In addition to affecting these links, it also affects the highlight
    color, which is another very welcome development.

    Straight blue (255 0 0) looks much better here!

    Many thanks again,

    emf

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