...background. You can use a third party application for complete control over the color of these fonts. Stardock: WindowFX - allows you to add special effects to windows. http://www.stardock.com/products/windowfx/ -- Ronnie Vernon Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User Amnon Wilensky wrote: Hi, How can I change ...

...you render all windows that were behind it (pretty slow). On the other hand You can draw in multiple layers with DirectX, then You can use DX transformations for minimize / restore effects like in WindowFX. and Windows Vista. So there's some hardware acceleration. With direct 3D (D3D) CPU passes images to the (video card -- used as DirectX filter). It will process them and pass the result...