Custom Color settings quirks: W/95 to W/7

[PeaceByJesus]

I am one of those few (i presume) users who find the transparent, glassy look of Windows 7 makes things harder to see, at least on this new Sony laptop (2.20 ghz cpu, 4gb ram. W/7 64 bit) I know you can turn off the the Transparency” option (right click desktop>m Personalization>Windows Color and Appearance>uncheck the “Enable Transparency”) and have deselected Desktop composition and Use visual styles.. (Windows key and pause/break>Advanced>Performance>Visual effects) which helps, but not as much as using classic styles, (Personalization>Windows Classic, then hit Windows Colors and customize).

It is under customizing Windows Colors that i find the problem, which is that if you change and apply certain settings like inactive title bar, and border, and disabled, then if you go and change the 3d object (like dialog boxes) color, then it will change what you previously customized. You have to change the 3d object and then the rest and not change the 3d again if you want it to be kept. This has been an issue with every version of Windows i have used from W/95.

Also, it will not allow you to change the font color in the Message box to be separate from the Window color, and which also seem to determine what color text some items of 3d dialog boxes will be.

All told, after much careful fiddling, I have found you cannot choose a very dark color for 3d objects, which requires a light color font, and have the text in all visuals (from menus to dialog boxes) to be light and dark contrasting colors. The high contrast theme MS offers have the same problem. I can provide the theme i am working in now if any want to try.

No big deal, and i thank God for eyes to see and for color!.

Edited March 29, 2012 by PeaceByJesus