Change colors, in detail

I found that selecting a high contrast Theme is the only way to change some details of each of the different colors (Hyperlinks, Disabled text, Selected text, etc.) of a window. When a high contrast screen is selected, I can search for "change
color" and select "change the color of your taskbar and window borders" and I'll get to a "Color and Appearance" screen that is not available for any non-high contrast theme. However, even this added ability to customize the
screen colors falls far short of complete control.
My custom Yahoo! page looses the text coloration differences to show stocks that are going up (green) vs. going down (red). I also seem to have very little control of Outlook coloration. As I am on my PC for most of every working day, I need
the ability to provide good contrasting colors on all my window screens. I am disappointed that Microsoft has not fine tuned this feature by now. Most everything else about 8.1 I like quite a bit.
William Fearn

You're no longer allowed to customize the colors to the extent you used to be able to do so. Microsoft has reduced our ability to make the desktop easier to use by configuring or "theming" it with something more pleasing than the (IMO)
fairly broken theme they provide. I personally find the loss of drop shadows tremendously reduces utility.
I believe it's a plot by Microsoft Marketing to try to get people to dislike using the desktop so that they can get more support for Metro/Modern.
It ain't working!
There are folks who have figured out how to "hack" the OS to enable better theme support, and one who's even re-implemented the Aero Glass effects. Some of them hang out at
msfn.org. These things can be employed to make it easier on the eyes (I've managed some improvement).
As far as Outlook 2013 / 365 goes... There's little hope, since even a theme replacement doesn't affect it. The Office team rolled their own UI, probably to help their Marketing department out. On the Microsoft forum elsewhere
is
a thread with something like 700 responses from people who claim their eyes are bleeding from trying to use the latest version of Office. Most claim Office 2010 was far better.
Here's the really disturbing part: Microsoft isn't releasing stuff by accident. They're actively making the desktop harder to use - on purpose. And their marketing is trying to turn it into an "Emperor's New Clothes"
situation with concepts/terms like "digitally authentic" and "skeuomorphism is bad".
Yes, it stinks for those of us who work with the desktop day in and day out. You're not alone. But you won't find many folks who'll stand up and agree with you, because pragmatism is not
fashionable.
-Noel
Detailed how-to in my eBooks:
Configure The Windows 7 "To Work" Options
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