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    How to change selection colour in Vista?

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by orion95, May 11, 2008.

  1. orion95

    orion95 Notebook Consultant

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    Some of the colour schemes adopted in Vista are outright dumb. An example of which would be the colour when a an option is selected when the cursor hovers above it. For instance, when you right click on the desktop area to choose properties the colour with which "Personalize" gets highlighted is extremely faint to the point of non-existent. Is there a way to change this colour?
     
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  2. f4ding

    f4ding Laptop Owner

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    Can't you change the "intensity" for that?
     
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  3. nizzy1115

    nizzy1115 Notebook Prophet

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    Maybe check your screen settings. Its perfect on mine.
     
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    eleron911 HighSpeedFreak

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    Change the colour scheme. I used a reddish one, and decreased transparency.
     
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    orion95 Notebook Consultant

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    Changing intensity doesn't seem to be helping that much.
    Observe the faint blue colour of the selected 'Properties' option in the attached image. The colouring really sucks. Anyway to change this to dark blue like in previous Windows?
     

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  6. Wirelessman

    Wirelessman Monkeymod

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    The BSOD has a bad blue too, they should change it, perhaps a very intense red and acompanied with an alarm sound :D
     
    Wirelessman, May 12, 2008
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