Windows 10: Desktop Icons keep changing to Black

Discus and support Desktop Icons keep changing to Black in Windows 10 Support to solve the problem; Each and every time I boot up 2 of my computers, the desktop icon font color is black. I have to manually change them to white. I have tried looking on... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Support' started by Jesse Williams, Jan 24, 2016.

  1. Desktop Icons keep changing to Black


    Each and every time I boot up 2 of my computers, the desktop icon font color is black. I have to manually change them to white. I have tried looking on Google, tried resolving the problem myself to no avail. So, how can I fix this?

    Acer Aspire XC603G Desktop and Acer Aspire 5749 Laptop.

    :)
     
    Jesse Williams, Jan 24, 2016
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  2. Philo53 Win User

    Desktop shortcut icons keep changing from arrow to nothing or other image on WIndows 10

    Did that originally - not doing it again.
     
    Philo53, Jan 24, 2016
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  3. Philo53 Win User
    Desktop shortcut icons keep changing from arrow to nothing or other image on WIndows 10

    I have the latest BIOS installed. I have the latest video card driver installed. Problem still persists.
     
    Philo53, Jan 24, 2016
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  4. caperjack Win User

    Desktop Icons keep changing to Black

    caperjack, Jan 25, 2016
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  5. Below is the picture. I have outlined the icons in a black box.


    Desktop Icons keep changing to Black [​IMG]
     
    Jesse Williams, Jan 25, 2016
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  6. caperjack Win User
    cant find any info on this myself ,, but I do think the black suits your background color ,could it be from some them you have running ,, what app is the search type box you have on the screen related to, I will keep looking for a cause ,and maybe others will chime in now too
     
    caperjack, Jan 25, 2016
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  7. Edwin New Member
    The font color will change from white to black, and vise versa, automatically, depending on the brightness of the desktop background.
     
    Edwin, Jan 25, 2016
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  8. davidhk Win User

    Desktop Icons keep changing to Black

    In older Windows Oses, I found out that the text color was affected by the overall background color.
    Dark background ............... white text.
    Light background .............. black text.

    I know it does not seem applicable to this situation.
    However, it does apply if the background is solid color instead of picture.
     
    davidhk, Jan 25, 2016
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  9. Jesse Williams, Jan 25, 2016
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  10. Sumit Dhiman suggested that tutorial to me. It helped and I thank him for it. I don't know if it affected the font color or what did. But it seemed to have happened after I followed that tutorial.
     
    Jesse Williams, Jan 25, 2016
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  11. Jesse Williams, Jan 25, 2016
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  12. caperjack Win User
    well I would say that's what happen if you followed info in that link , so for me I don't see the color of the text being an issue ,so I think if you want it back to the way it was before you tried to speed up windows with registry edits ,they you will need to do a system restore back to before you made the changes .
    System Restore Windows 10 - Windows 10 Forums
     
    caperjack, Apr 4, 2018
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