Ron,

In your picture, the left hand pane is called the Folders Pane or Folders
List, the right hand pane is called the Message Pane or Message List.

You can change the Selected Items color in Display Properties, but this will
affect the Selected Items color everywhere in Windows, not just in Outlook
Express. I have not tried this myself.

Right click Desktop | Properties | Appearance tab | Advanced button |
Click the V Under Item: to expand the menu | Scroll down the Window elements
menu to Selected Items | Click the V on Color 1 to expand the menu | Select
a color or click on Other and either select a color or customize a new color

How to Change the Font, Size, and Colors of Desktop Items
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;310543

In both e-mail and newsgroups, when a conversation in the Message List is
marked as Watched, the messages in that thread are marked with the glasses
and highlighted whatever color is set in Highlight watched messages. The
Folder that the thread is in, in the Folders Pane, is also highlighted the
same color as the watched conversation.

From OE HELP...
[[You can customize the color of your watched messages to make them stand
out. On the Tools menu, click Options. On the Read tab, at the end of the
Highlight watched messages with the color line, select the color you want,
and then click OK.]]

You might try posting at...
microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6_outlooke xpress
to see what the OE experts have to say about it.

--
Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

In news:OYSQvmyyFHA.2812@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl,
Ron <ron@flymail.fm> hunted and pecked:
> "Wesley Vogel" <123WVogel955@comcast.net> wrote in message
> news:uLUC9ItyFHA.3312@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
>> Post it here. Just attach a picture to a post.
>>
>> --
>> Hope this helps. Let us know.
>>
>> Wes
>> MS-MVP Windows Shell/User
>>
>> In news:%23rJ5RusyFHA.2132@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl,
>> Ron <ron@flymail.fm> hunted and pecked:
>>> "Wesley Vogel" <123WVogel955@comcast.net> wrote in message
>>> news:ukolfbsyFHA.2932@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
>>>> You can customize the color of your watched messages to make them stand
>>>> out.
>>>> On the Tools menu, click Options. On the Read tab, at the end of the
>>>> Highlight watched messages with the color line, select the color you
>>>> want, and then click OK.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Hope this helps. Let us know.
>>>>
>>>> Wes
>>>> MS-MVP Windows Shell/User
>>>>
>>>> In news:uii3lOqyFHA.3864@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl,
>>>> Ron <ron@flymail.fm> hunted and pecked:
>>>>> Hi in Outlook Express in the left hand pane where the newsgroup titles
>>>>> are
>>>>> when it is first highlighted the highlight is blue but when I then
>>>>> highlight a message subject the highlight then becomes a very light
>>>>> grey. Also when composing a message such as this one any highlighted
>>>>> message subject also becomes a very light grey. How can I change this
>>>>> colour to a darker grey or to another colour? Windows XP Pro with SP2
>>>>> and a slightly modified windows scheme but I still cannot change the
>>>>> colour.
>>>>> Thanks Ron
>>>
>>>
>>> That is not what I require. Is there a newsgroup that I can post a
>>> picture
>>> of what I want to change or will I post it here?
>>>
>>> Ron
>
> The colour highlighted in red is what I want to change
>
> Ron