For a safe experiment, select Windows Classic Style and Rainy Day colors
scheme on the Display Properties - Appearance tab. It's a nice blue theme.
You can customize individual elements from there.


"Wesley Vogel" <123WVogel955@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:OYdgKA2yFHA.1264@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> 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
>