Text colours

perdrix said:

Windows 10 x64 21H2. Desktop text colours seem odd:



Expect all that text to be white but it isn't! It is Blue, Orange, Blue, White, Blue, Orange, Blue, White ...


Wassup?

David

Could it be something to do with the monitor (screen), itself?
Do you see the color variation in other places, like in these pics?









The "repeating pattern" of the colors, makes me think it's more of a monitor issue.

BOBWBOBWBOBWBOBW...






If you ONLY see it on desktop icons... you might try rebuilding the icon cache...
Rebuild Icon Cache in Windows 10

Or are you using High Contrast Mode? Turn On or Off High Contrast Mode in Windows 10

I don't now believe it to be the monitor. Here's an enlarged view of a screen clip:



It seems Windows is sending those odd colours.

Linux system is just fine. As is another Windows system which is at 20H2 with update KB5000802:



It looks like they've got the dithering wrong ...

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I'm pretty sure this is a problem that came along with KB4023057 or KB5012599 as I only noticed it recently and it's so obvious I would have done so if it had always been like that.

perdrix said:

I don't now believe it to be the monitor. Here's an enlarged view of a screen clip:



It seems Windows is sending those odd colours.

Linux system is just fine. As is another Windows system which is at 20H2 with update KB5000802:



It looks like they've got the dithering wrong ...

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I'm pretty sure this is a problem that came along with KB4023057 or KB5012599 as I only noticed it recently and it's so obvious I would have done so if it had always been like that.

It won't be KB4023057. That's a Servicing Stack Update. They send that one out every month since February 2021.

And if you look at my pic of my desktop icons above... they are white.
But when magnified... this is the Regedit text.

Further information: This is with Display setting "Change size of text, apps and other items" set to 125%. If I reduce this to 100% I don't get the problem but everything is really way too small as this is a 3840x2160 monitor! Changing to 150% which seems to be the recommended value still has the problem but not so badly.

Yes I realise that "White" text won't be (as per your Regedit example). It's as if someone changed the algorithm slightly and it has totally messed it up for me .

perdrix said:

Further information: This is with Display setting "Change size of text, apps and other items" set to 125%. If I reduce this to 100% I don't get the problem but everything is really way too small as this is a 3840x2160 monitor! Changing to 150% which seems to be the recommended value still has the problem but not so badly.

Yes I realise that "White" text won't be (as per your Regedit example). It's as if someone changed the algorithm slightly and it has totally messed it up for me .

Did you mess around with the color settings in the Nvidia Control Panel?
Mine is set like this...




Maybe if you choose: "Use NVIDIA Settings", then the screen magnification might not affect the text color?