Windows 10: How to change text color on Taskbar buttons?

Is it possible to change the color of text on the Taskbar buttons? It is unreadable as black text on a very dark background.

Thanks to various tutorials and threads in TenForums, and the Winaero Tweaker program, I now have all the other UI colors in Windows 10 looking how I want with a customized theme.

:)

 

The possible colors of taskbar are in majority quite dark and text in taskbar is black in Windows 10

<Original Title: Color of text in taskbar>

I've recently upgraded system to Windows 10 and I've found one problem: The possible colors of taskbar are in majority quite dark and text in taskbar is black (so it's difficult to read it). I've tried changing of desktop background and taskbar colors but
the text remains black.

In my second computer with Win 10 the text is white but I also haven't found out how to change it.

Is there any option to manually or automatically change color of text in task bar?

 

How to change taskbar text back to white?

With the latest (creators?) update, my taskbar text color changed from white to black. My accent color is dark so I can't see any text. How can I change it back to white?

 

Have you figured out how to change the background color on File Explorer from that awful White??

 

Unfortunately not. In HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Colors , the "Window" setting affects the paper background of many programs, but not File Explorer.

Like many colors in Windows 10, it must be hard coded into an exe or dll file, rather than reading any of your settings - which I think is lazy programming as well as very inconsiderate to users.

 

I figured out how to change the taskbar text to white, which is what I came here hoping to find.

Go to personalization in the control panel and switch to the default theme called Windows. The text will be white. Then switch the background and color back to whatever they were before, and the text should stay white.

 

I have the same problem here. Many things are saved in the theme coming from the upgrade. There must be somewhere in the registry where we can change the taskbar text back to white ?

 

Thank you Thank you! Two Windows 10 updates in the last two days created black text on a black taskbar background! Yours was the ONLY solution - otherwise you got "No, it can't be done!" Thanks a heap for going the extra step and reporting back on your success!