VistaStyleBuilder

I've manage to get rid of the glow and tried to change the color of the text in:
Fonts, Colors, & System Fonts & System Metrics > WindowText:Color
but this also change text color in Window Explorer main window ...

Is there other way to change this without affecting WinExplorer main window?

Thanks

Well, you can't change that textcolor.

But you could always go into your shellstyle and change the main explorer textcolor by going into the UIFILE and changing foreground="windowtext" to whatever rgbs you want.

OK Thanks .. for time being I'll leave that as it is ..

EDIT:

Editing foreground="windowtext" to argb works as expected ... thanks again ...

EDIT:

Doing this cause a disturbing effect:
Control Panel Home and some other Control Panel items open up in explorer with Navigation Pane ..

Decided to take a closer look. Here's another way to change that textcolor:

For 32 bit os & programs go here:

C:\Windows\winsxs\x86_microsoft.windows.common-controls_6595b64144ccf1df_6.0.7601.17514_none_41e6975e2bd6f2b2

For 64 bit os & programs go here:

C:\Windows\winsxs\amd64_microsoft.windows.common-controls_6595b64144ccf1df_6.0.7601.17514_none_fa396087175ac9ac

Open up UIFILE 6881 and change windowtext ( in the below code) to whatever color you want. This will make the necessary change and nothing else. You can the go back to the shellstyle and change main explorer textcolor back to default windowtext and, hopefully, avoid the complications you are experiencing.


<if id="atom(wizardtitle)">

<element Background     = "argb(0, 0, 0, 0)"

ContentAlign   = "MiddleLeft"

Font           = "gtf(AeroWizardStyle, 1, 0)"

Foreground     = "windowtext"

LayoutPos      = "left"

Margin         = "composited(themeable(rect(-7rp, 0rp, 0rp, 0rp), rect(7rp, 0rp, 0rp, 0rp)), rect(7rp, 0rp, 0rp, 0rp))"

Overhang       = "false"

TextGlowSize   = "themeable(gtmet(AeroWizard, 1, 0, 2425), 10rp)" />

Thanks to davesenior for his help with this.

3am,
I really appreciate your effort and the time you spent for this. Thanks also to Dave Senior ...

What do you mean with:

"Doing this cause a disturbing effect:
Control Panel Home and some other Control Panel items open up in explorer with Navigation Pane .."?

Could you give more detail? Because I don't understand what you are saying.

Since I had the problem, the only change I did are in comctl32.dll and revert back shellstyle to its original file as suggested.
But now even I replaced all instances of foreground="windowtext" with foreground="argb(0, 0, 0, 0)", I can not recreate the problem.

So I did some manipulation in photoshop to illustrate the problem ...
The problem persisted even after restart or complete shutdown.
Every time Control Panel is launched it opened as illustrated, even command module is not showing ..
so I was unable to try to set the layout of the window (untick navigation pane)