Windows 10: windows 11 solid background

I am content with W11 except for two issues. First, no matter what I change the background color to, it eventually changes itself to black. Second, I can find no way to change the font color from white to black or get rid of the shadowing that sometimes returns, a vestige of my W10 days. If I had my choice, I'd want to go back to the photo of my children that I used in W10 when I could manipulate the font colors/styles with 3rd party tools. I don't want to mess with Themes--seems like overkill. Any suggestions?

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Solid White as a Background

hey,

As I can see, no white background appears in the list of Solid colors.

You may google White picture, save it to the desktop and set it as desktop background.



I have added one image here also, if you can see.

 

Solid White as a Background

So I went to change my background and for the first time since updating I went to change my background color to a solid white, only to find there was no solid white. How is it possible that there is such a variety of colors, not as many as there were
with the last windows, but no white? Is it possible that I'm just not seeing it? Could it be located somewhere else?

 

Background change (to picture) results in a solid colour, not an image

As the title suggests I try to change my desktop background and it will not accept the image. It will simply put a solid colour there instead. I have tried from the settings panel and even from the image viewer. The image viewer results in an error and suggests I need to activate Windows. It is activated.

Thanks for taking the time to read my question.