Match your text to your wallpaper

PPC shows you how to change the colour of the text under your desktop icons so that you can see it against your wallpaper

There's a growing trend for folks to have a pretty picture as a backdrop to their Windows desktop, and what with RAM being so cheap, that's not really a problem these days. But what do you do if your picture 'clashes' with the descriptive text underneath the icons on your desktop?

Fear not - help is at hand. The colour of the text is actually determined by the desktop colour, so here's how to change both at once (and since you're using a wallpaper image, you'll only see the colour of the desktop change.

1. right click on the desktop
2. select 'properties'
3. select the 'appearance' tab
4. on the 'item' dropdown, select 'Desktop'
5. pick a colour and click on 'apply' - you should see the text colour change
6. once you've found the best choice, click on OK, and the job's done!

David Dorn