How to change text color on Taskbar buttons?


  1. Posts : 30
    Windows 10 Pro
       #1

    How to change text color on Taskbar buttons?


    Is it possible to change the color of text on the Taskbar buttons? It is unreadable as black text on a very dark background.

    Thanks to various tutorials and threads in TenForums, and the Winaero Tweaker program, I now have all the other UI colors in Windows 10 looking how I want with a customized theme.
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  2. Posts : 30
    win 10
       #2

    Have you figured out how to change the background color on File Explorer from that awful White??
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  3. Posts : 30
    Windows 10 Pro
    Thread Starter
       #3

    Unfortunately not. In HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Colors , the "Window" setting affects the paper background of many programs, but not File Explorer.

    Like many colors in Windows 10, it must be hard coded into an exe or dll file, rather than reading any of your settings - which I think is lazy programming as well as very inconsiderate to users.
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  4. Posts : 4
    Windows 10
       #4

    I figured out how to change the taskbar text to white, which is what I came here hoping to find.

    Go to personalization in the control panel and switch to the default theme called Windows. The text will be white. Then switch the background and color back to whatever they were before, and the text should stay white.
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  5. Posts : 93
    Windows 10 x64
       #5

    I have the same problem here. Many things are saved in the theme coming from the upgrade. There must be somewhere in the registry where we can change the taskbar text back to white ?
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  6. Posts : 1
    Windows 10 Professional
       #6

    Thank you Thank you! Two Windows 10 updates in the last two days created black text on a black taskbar background! Yours was the ONLY solution - otherwise you got "No, it can't be done!" Thanks a heap for going the extra step and reporting back on your success!

    Dright said:
    I figured out how to change the taskbar text to white, which is what I came here hoping to find.

    Go to personalization in the control panel and switch to the default theme called Windows. The text will be white. Then switch the background and color back to whatever they were before, and the text should stay white.
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  7. Posts : 35
    W10
       #7

    Dright said:
    I figured out how to change the taskbar text to white, which is what I came here hoping to find.

    Go to personalization in the control panel and switch to the default theme called Windows. The text will be white. Then switch the background and color back to whatever they were before, and the text should stay white.
    This worked and gave me white text on dark taskbar, but... it also changed all the icon text to white on light background. How on Earth can this be such a hard thing to get right? What are those Microsofties thinking? I so regret changing from W7.

    EDIT: OK, so I had to do this trick in the third post here https://www.****************.com/thr...-icons.354474/ to get black icon text. Again... how the *** can this be so complicated?
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  8. Posts : 42,634
    Win 10 Pro (22H2) (2nd PC is 22H2)
       #8

    Well, I was shocked at first- moving to Win 8! So I did something about it, and carried that idea forward albeit now by a different method as regards the frames in Win 10:
    How to change text color on Taskbar buttons?-1.jpg

    - a degree of transparency, no harsh off-white backgrounds unless it's a custom program- and with some 3rd party programs you can change that too. And no, it's not some 3rd party theme, and is robust, surviving upgrades etc. Even slightly rounded corners.

    Utilities like SMACC, Winpaletter (free) can help, given the Advanced Appearance dialogue vanished in Win 8.

    Someone suggested a way to reinstate a form of that- never tried it, and it's likely to be partially successful.
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