Wednesday, December 31, 2014

Windows 7: Getting a Black background with White Text

A normal Windows 7 screen with a white background and black letters is way too bright for my tender eyes. After a while it will give me a headache.

I've tried setting the Theme (right click on desktop background and select "Personalize") to a HighContrast black. This works to a degree. Microsoft Word acts correctly, but many products do not look at the theme colors to display text.

And I've used Firefox's excellent "Blank Your Monitor" plugin to change websites to a different color theme. The major problem with this is that some commands on a page are drawn in such a way that you don't see them at all.

I've starting using Microsoft's Invert Color program. It's similar to the Mac's invert color (Control-Option-Command-8), but a little clunkier.

To invert the color you have to run the Magnify program by pressing Windows and "+" key, then unmagnify by pressing Windows plus the "-" command (you must release the Windows key in between). Then the real command is Ctl-Alt-i to invert the colors. Then everything is beautiful.

One issue is my favorite background image is reversed colored which looks awful. The solution? Fire up Paint.Net, grab you favorite image and invert its color. Then save it and use it as your background.

You get bonus points if you can identify the picture shown below.

2 comments:

ark survival evolved pearls said...

For those still having this issue

1. Go to ''Configuration screen''
2. At the search bar{right corner} type ''Background''
3. under ''ease of access center'' klick on ''Turn of background images''
4. Scroll to the bottom you'll see ''remove background images where available'' untick/deselect it.

Low-carb hi-protein chicken said...

Where is the simple ability to turn system text to black without the silly inversion here that loses every photo and don't tell me the silly greyscale either where you lose all colour -even in early colour macs you could change the font colour size and text of all system icons -a big fail apple.