Highlight color in Explorer

Hi all,

Only saw one article on this on a web forum but no solution... stated
responses were that there's nothing to be done about it.
With Aero on, the highlight 'color' of items in Explorer windows is a
glassine light blue overlay which quite frankly is barely noticable. Is
there a way to modify the color, saturation and opacity of this? Only
suggestion I've found is to turn off Aero entirely. Any way to keep Aero
running and still improve this element? I am surprised it is locked to this
setting, because it is really hard to see.

Hope someone can help please.

Sure, change the "Window" item 'color' setting to black, instead of the
white you probably use.
Personalization/window color.. /"open Classic appearance..." link/"Advanced"
button/ Item drop box.
You will probably want to change the Icon item text color too.

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"Atreyu" <> wrote in message
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> Hi all,
>
> Only saw one article on this on a web forum but no solution... stated
> responses were that there's nothing to be done about it.
> With Aero on, the highlight 'color' of items in Explorer windows is a
> glassine light blue overlay which quite frankly is barely noticable. Is
> there a way to modify the color, saturation and opacity of this? Only
> suggestion I've found is to turn off Aero entirely. Any way to keep Aero
> running and still improve this element? I am surprised it is locked to
> this setting, because it is really hard to see.
>
> Hope someone can help please.

On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 08:26:17 -0400, "Atreyu"
<> wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>Only saw one article on this on a web forum but no solution... stated
>responses were that there's nothing to be done about it.
>With Aero on, the highlight 'color' of items in Explorer windows is a
>glassine light blue overlay which quite frankly is barely noticable. Is
>there a way to modify the color, saturation and opacity of this? Only
>suggestion I've found is to turn off Aero entirely. Any way to keep Aero
>running and still improve this element? I am surprised it is locked to this
>setting, because it is really hard to see.
>
>Hope someone can help please.

This is one of the bone headed decisions Microsoft really screwed up
in Vista. They made a lot of noise over how "cool" Aero would be then
limited it to the point it is all buy useless to say nothing over how
much it can eat up resources and slow down your system.

While the Aero color schemes themselves can be modified to vary hue
and intensity, if you want to alter one element like the highlight
color in Explorer you can't UNLESS you fall back to other color
schemes that don't use Aero.

So if you want something with more contrast and don't mind ditching
the useless Aero "feature" You can pick another color scheme like one
of the high contrast or classic color schemes by right clicking on a
empty place on your desktop, personalize, windows color and appearance
then click where it says 'open classic properties for more color
options' and then you can customize to your heart's content making any
Windows element whatever color you like. Doing so you lose the rather
obviously cheesy transparent effect of Aero which has got to be one of
the dumbest ideas Microsoft ever came up with.

If you just want to fiddle with Aero colors, you can do that too from
the Window Color and Appearance window picking a different Aero color
and effecting it's intensity. Warning I've tried them all and no
matter what setting or color you pick none are what I'd call
inspiring. This is suppose to part of the "wow". As you can see the
"wow" was as usual just Microsoft marketing hype.

As an alternative you can turn on check boxes for file selecting.

Admittedly it is fairly light shading but I wonder if it isn't also affected
by monitor or video card settings. The blue highlight is quite visible
against the white background on mine, about the same shade/intensity as the
Details pane. The dark borders added to selected files also helps make them
stand out.

"Atreyu" <> wrote in message
news:75E3327B-8098-4718-8C9F-...
> Hi all,
>
> Only saw one article on this on a web forum but no solution... stated
> responses were that there's nothing to be done about it.
> With Aero on, the highlight 'color' of items in Explorer windows is a
> glassine light blue overlay which quite frankly is barely noticable. Is
> there a way to modify the color, saturation and opacity of this? Only
> suggestion I've found is to turn off Aero entirely. Any way to keep Aero
> running and still improve this element? I am surprised it is locked to
> this setting, because it is really hard to see.
>
> Hope someone can help please.