How do I change it from that sky blue (**** near white) color to a
dark blue!? Who ever though of that color for the highlight needs to
be flogged and demoted in pay.
Please, how do we change that color? Themes don't work, advanced color
options don't work. How cna I fix that crap?
60% of males are color blind and Cyan on White isn't the easiest color
to deal with.
"Idgarad" <idgarad@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> 60% of males are color blind and Cyan on White isn't the easiest color
> to deal with.
>
On Jun 15, 11:29 am, "Synapse Syndrome"
<syna...@NOSPAMgomez404.elitemail.org> wrote:
> "Idgarad" <idga...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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>
>
> > 60% of males are color blind and Cyan on White isn't the easiest color
> > to deal with.
>
> Well that's ********!
>
> ss.
Depending on how you are treating the term color blind it can be as
low as 5% of males or as high as 60% of males (the proper term for
some using the 60% is color deficent rather then color blind).
as far as medical color blindness:
Protanomaly 1%
Deuteranomaly 5% Most common form apparently
Protanopia 1%
Deuteranopia 1%
Even those stats are sketchy as several records indicate that only 2.8
million Americans are color blind which even if all are males doesn't
come close to 5% of males let alone 8%.
Several other source indicate that 10% of males are Red-Green
colorblind.
The best statistic I have is from a painters convention that simply
states: 60% of males have one form or another of a color deficeny.
Regardless, how do I fix the Vista highlight color?
I don't think there is a way without some kind of registry hack. It is so
light colored its almost impossible to see, no matter what color it is.
Mark
"Idgarad" <idgarad@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> How do I change it from that sky blue (**** near white) color to a
> dark blue!? Who ever though of that color for the highlight needs to
> be flogged and demoted in pay.
>
> Please, how do we change that color? Themes don't work, advanced color
> options don't work. How cna I fix that crap?
>
> 60% of males are color blind and Cyan on White isn't the easiest color
> to deal with.
>
Hello.. you wont get any good reply from these vistaboys who are ignorant
about the very OS they support.
Let me explain now, that is part of the theme, and themes in vista use
visual styles
with filename extensions .mssstyle. The color you see is actually a bitmap
and cannot be changed!
You have 3 solutions:
1- Use classic (the boring gray theme) and then change that element (which
can be done and I can tell you how if you want)
"Idgarad" <idgarad@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> How do I change it from that sky blue (**** near white) color to a
> dark blue!? Who ever though of that color for the highlight needs to
> be flogged and demoted in pay.
>
> Please, how do we change that color? Themes don't work, advanced color
> options don't work. How cna I fix that crap?
>
> 60% of males are color blind and Cyan on White isn't the easiest color
> to deal with.
>
I MUST add that the vistaboys could NOT UNDERSTAND what I was
telling them about vista bad choice of colors...
What you say along with a multitude of other color problems exist in Vista.
There is also another problem with that highlight but I wont get into that
now.
I have been trying to educate-da-vistaboys but they learn slow.. perhaps now
that they hear things from users like you they will start seeing why "vista"
is a bad view.
all puns intentional.
"Idgarad" <idgarad@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> How do I change it from that sky blue (**** near white) color to a
> dark blue!? Who ever though of that color for the highlight needs to
> be flogged and demoted in pay.
>
> Please, how do we change that color? Themes don't work, advanced color
> options don't work. How cna I fix that crap?
>
> 60% of males are color blind and Cyan on White isn't the easiest color
> to deal with.
>
That would have been a perfectly helpful post if you had only leftout
the sophomoric part:
-...you wont get any good reply from these vistaboys who are ignorant
about the very OS they support.-
Go ahead, try it next time. I bet it doesn't hurt at all.
"Idgarad" <idgarad@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> How do I change it from that sky blue (**** near white) color to a
> dark blue!? Who ever though of that color for the highlight needs to
> be flogged and demoted in pay.
>
> Please, how do we change that color? Themes don't work, advanced color
> options don't work. How cna I fix that crap?
>
> 60% of males are color blind and Cyan on White isn't the easiest color
> to deal with.
>
I don't care for it either and when you drag and drop, it's a real pain
trying to make sure the selection is where you want it because the dragged
file get's in the way too. In fact, I do very little drag and drop anymore.
Instead, I just use copy and paste because it is easier to make sure the
selection is where I want it.
Nonetheless, the selection is a bad color. You can improve it just a bit by
turning off Transparency. Transparency washes the color out further because
you can then see the white background through the transparent color.
You can turn off Transparency as follows:
Right click a blanks space on the Desktop, select Personalize and click
"Windows Color and Appearance."
--
Michael Solomon
Backup is a PC user's best friend
DTS-L.Org: http://www.dts-l.org/
No I must include the sophomoric part... lol because I have explained again
and again that the vista theme color selection is extremely bad... as well
as other GUI elements ..
This is not new.. but the vistaboys or vista extreme blind followers,
insisted that I was wrong.
Its very irritating to have to deal with this guys that cant understand
elementary things and even after my explanations all they can do is call out
troll troll! So, they either are incapable (I don't really think its that)
or they simply refuse to listen (this is what I believe the case is).
If you want to see what I have said in the past (and if you are brave) you
can read the following text
reposted here (2 posts)
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Post 1
Yet vista needed something to seem "different" so much that they went ahead
and played with some very fundamental things,
that should have not been done.
Let me explain here what they are:
1) Colors. The color black is the worse color anyone could select for an
interface. In fact this is why Windows used to be Gray,
and the same reason all PC boxes used to be gray-beige. Although not a
pretty color, they had seen that it was the best color to blend with the
environment
that is around the screen. Also reflections from windows onto the screen on
black parts of the gui are a problem, often making people want to
decrease the lighting in the room to compensate... but that is very
harmful... and anyway you cant do it in a work environment.
2)Fonts. Vista has the worse fonts I have ever seen in a OS. Even without
cleartype they seem blurry. They are not consistent....
they have made such a mess of the fonts in vista I wont get into it.... who
made these bad decisions?
3) The very design of the UI is HORRID HORRID HORRID. The start menu is a
mess the way the programs unfold upon themselves.
This is such a fundamental mistake guys.... And then your only other
solution is to use classic that is not as good as the XP start menu.
Thank god that exists at least.
They hid very important menus. Look at explorer and internet explorer,
windows media player. What crap is this? Hiding menus? This is outrageous.
Also they have made the Toolbars non customizable. This is very annoying...
and thousands of people complained about this with IE7... yet MS
went ahead and did it.... BIG MISTAKE.
Also they did not give us one of the things they PROMISED us with Longhorn!
the ability to have resolution independent windows and screen elements
*icons menus windows and other things*. Yet the poor ignorant vistafans in
here have no clue what Im frikin talking about!
There are many other problems... but vista bores me....
SOLUTIONS:
What can you do?
1) Use classic and disable as much crap as possible, enable menus and other
helpful stuff. Use an alternative browser and file manager.
2) Buy start windowblinds (around $20) and select one of the hundreds of
themes that are more simple and clear.
3) Download the following patch to enable the themeing engine of vista to
load unsigned themes (non Microsoft)
Ok here is a more detail explaination, that I actually took the time to
write... so you can understand some of the thoughts behind "vista is stupid
(tm)"
I believe an OS must be intelligently designed based on scientific study of
human - computer interaction, plus with the additional features that the
creative, non verbal, visual mind would create.
Vista is seems was built by monkeys. With one look of 5 minutes, a keen
observer who is proficient in design, and computers will tell you that:
-Vista was not created after any study of human-computer interaction
-the decisions made in the interface is a jumble different concepts smashed
together in an ugly way.
-Microsoft simply ignored what people really wanted from the next version of
windows, did almost nothing of all that, rather they did what they liked
without the proper preparation and ergonomic testing done.
-Vista took XP, and added too much nonsense stuff that run in the
background, or loading memory too much, making the user experience very
slow.
-There are not really many improvements done under the hood to justify the
hype of vista.
I believe that MS should have done this: Have a room with 100 people of
various computer skill ability, to do various tasks on various interfaces,
and have a group of at least 6 people who are really qualified to interpret
the reactions of the people who are using the interfaces and determine what
works and what doesn't.
This would include testing of the vital biological feedback given from the
user, using lie detector technology, that will show, stress, and
frustration, the speed of the the motion of the hand, and where the eye
focuses and spends more time on. I am VERY SERIOUS about this.. this is not
a joke!
They do this when making the design of the controls for fighter jets.. the
same thing is needed..
Study should be done on nature, and transfer a natural element into the
computing environment. This has been done in many areas of art and
technology.
All this can be done, and have been done for other things.. but Microsoft
doesn't really care about doing this..
Vista seems like me, that it was given to a bunch of amateur computer code
writers to develop it, some graphical artists that have no clue about
how the human brain works.....
Yet Microsoft has the resources to do all this research needed.... You would
be amazed on how small things would give a big improvement.
But there must be care for the user... a feeling of the need to serve the
customers in the best possible way, and going beyond all limitations
to reach that goal. Much more thought went into DRM and activation
technologies than serving the people.. the users.. the customers.
Vista lacks all this.. vista is the worse version of windows ever (giving
the time frame it was made in) because it is actually worse than XP, in
human computer interaction, speed, reliability, visual clutter...
everything. For those who complain about the fisher price theme, that's only
a theme.. there are thousands of nice themes you could use.. that would
change the colors, but retain the structure.
My opinion is that they should do what I propose at least in the next
version of windows. You don't always have to do super duper innovations...
just make things work better, have everything work in a flow... You cant
change too many things in the interface because you have a userbase
that needs to still be able to use the interface.
Vista is so stupid, that I am surprised how many people don't see this. My
only explanation is that this is due to ignorance. IGNORANCE.
But it is not the job of the user to think about all this. This is the job
of the people making the product.
Vista needs a genius or a group of geniuses behind it. I am not talking
about mere smart people. MS has a lot of those...
I am talking about a brilliant genius that understands all what I said, and
will create a process by utilizing people and technology
to produce extremely high quality products.
I have studied over the years how geniuses create foundations that create
phenomenal results. Bill gates did that too ... but times have changed now
and people need another level of quality that has never before been done.
"MarkyMarc43" <MarkyMarc43.2s8h7d@no-mx.forums.net> wrote in message
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> Tiberius,
>
> That would have been a perfectly helpful post if you had only leftout
> the sophomoric part:
> -...you wont get any good reply from these vistaboys who are ignorant
> about the very OS they support.-
> Go ahead, try it next time. I bet it doesn't hurt at all.
>
>
> --
> MarkyMarc43
Tiberius wrote:
> No I must include the sophomoric part... lol because I have explained again
> and again that the vista theme color selection is extremely bad... as well
> as other GUI elements ..
> This is not new.. but the vistaboys or vista extreme blind followers,
> insisted that I was wrong.
>
Wrong again bozo. Most simply don't agree with you or else don't care.
It's only your personal opinion.
> Its very irritating to have to deal with this guys that cant understand
> elementary things
Oh...you mean like colors generally are a personal opinion. Is that what
you mean?
So, they either are incapable
Certainly someone like you, with you self-proclaimed elevated
intellectual capacity, are capable of understanding that the colors of
Vista are matter of personal opinion. If you don't like them...well...ok!
That is within the realm of your elevated understanding, correct?
Frank
**** Explorer Highlight Color 
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