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Using System Colors

At some point, you may have changed your Windows theme, or perhaps you changed the image or color of your desktop. What you may not be aware of is that Windows enables you to customize the colors of almost all Windows interface elements. The colors that Windows allows you to change are called system colors. To change your system colors, right-click the desktop and choose Properties from the shortcut menu to display the Display Properties dialog box, and then click the Appearance tab (see Figure 18.1). To change the color for a specific item, you can select the item from the Item drop-down list, or you can click the element in the top half of the tab.

Figure 18.1. The Display Properties dialog box lets you select the colors ...