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I am creating a theme for myself - I prefer some darker elements. I use Ave Vista/Windows 7 StyleBuilder. I have customized many elements already, colorized images as I like and now all items in lists and menus (simple lists, listboxes, folder views) appear pretty good, but there are two problems for now: - the items in Task Manager window do not change color to white when I select them. Why so? I mean - the selected text elsewhere (like in folder views) becomes white. Obviously there is some special property needed for Task Manager, but I cannot find it. Can anybody help? - the item descriptions (like disk space, library description, details) also do not respond to selection. I found this: Explorer & Shell > Explorer > Items View > ItemsView > Subheader > Normal to change the color from light gray to some other, but it works globally for all states (hot, selected, normal). How can I get it to appear lighter when selected? I have no idea where to look further - is it in shellstyle.dll or msstyle? And which property is it? Can I use StyleBuilder or ResourceHacker to change it? Maybe you can suggest some place where I could look for an answer? Thanks. screenshot: As you see, in folder view items have white text but black text is left in Task Manager and Select program (and also Open/Save dialogs).

Try UxStyle http://uxstyle.com/ No more dangerous fiddling with your system files - it patches them in runtime memory. Works fine for me. If you switch themes a lot, sometimes you need to restart uxstyle service - it sometimes gets stuck. But anyway - good alternative to patchers.