If you want to customize your Windows XP desktop and add a new, interesting effect, you can make your desktop icons have a background color. You can use the advanced settings of the Appearance menu to ...

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Please note, that this involves editing the Windows Registry. Wrongly editing the Registry can cause your computer to stop functioning. If you are uncertain or not completely comfortable editing the ...

Judy Port wants to change the text color in desktop icon captions. Microsoft doesn’t provide that option, but there’s a trick to turning the default white text to black. You can also turn off the drop ...

Notepad++ is an excellent free source code editor launched to help programmers create various programs under the MS Windows environment. In this short article, we'll explain all the steps necessary to ...

Following are the color numbers for the 16 foreground and eight background colors in the PC's text mode. Foreground and background numbers are added together; for example, white text on a red ...

A couple months back I gave you some tips on how to customize Windows Media Center, my onetime favorite Microsoft media management system. I’ll be honest: I’ve been thinking seriously about cutting ...