How to change Today screen's font colour

I recently changed the background image for the Today screen on my XDA Orbit, however when you set an image to background it washes it out with a grey layer so that text is still readable. However, if you used a very light image to begin with, the standard white text of the Today screen becomes almost unreadable.

In true Microsoft style, there's no way to change this easily through the Settings pane, or through the Theme settings pane either. So how do you do it?

  1. Download Mobile Registry Editor
  2. Make sure your phone is connected over ActiveSync
  3. Load Mobile Registry Editor
  4. Goto HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Color\

If you see a binary key named 4 simply edit that and if you want the colour black, put in 00 00 00 00 then save it.

If you don't see a binary key named 4 then you'll need to create it. Do this by right clicking and going to New -> Binary Value...

Value Name: 4
Value Data: 00 00 00 00

If you had to create the key then the colour change should be immediate, if you were editing it you probably need to restart the phone.

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20th Aug 2008 in Windows and Mobile