If anyone can tell me how to get back to clear black desktop icon text on Build 1803 I would be immensely grateful. Clearly the Gods of Microsoft discovered the peasants were not following the one true way and put a stop to their blasphemy. The position of the taskbar changes the information that the clock is displaying. The only two options that are available are to display the clock - or not - and to change the time. Tonight my desktop text changed to the ordained colour for no apparent reason and Iĭiscovered that the loophole no longer works (not even after turning shadows off). The Windows System Tray clock does not provide many ways to customize its appearance and format. Set the background to orange, the text changed to black and it stayed that way after you changed back to your usual background. Hence it was decreed that henceforth there would be just one text colour for all - white with a black edge.Īs I prefer a light plain background the official text colour makes my eyes hurtīut fortunately there was a loophole. Stupid users (ie all of them) might choose a colour and background combination which made the text invisible. Then in the best tradition of Microsoft knows best it was decided that users could no longer be allowed to select Long ago in the great days of Windows XP I found that my preferred desktop was a light, plain background with clear black text for the icons.

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