Didn't they have some sort of effect in Vista? As for Windows 7 youcanforgetaboutit!

It's another in a long list of things that don't make sense in sks (like text settings for jumplists.......they do nothing either)

I tried Vista too, no effect.  Yep on SKS and the jumplists in 7, and the taskbar group menus in XP too, text settings have no effect in that section either.

Wasn't there some line of code you could add to the sp poup menu background and the text color worked?

Been a while since I did an XP skin.....

Ok. Now I have only tried this on Vista (just now)

On the Start Panel Popup menu background, go to the code tab delete all the code for text color. Then add these 2 lines:

FocusColour=
NormalColour=

That should take care of your normal and mouseover states in the group menu.

I don't need to tell Tom this, but for others that don't know

You need to have a number after the = sign. F.ex

FocusColour=15
NormalColour=19

Interesting...............

Also make sure to spell color as colour......you can blame Neil for misspelling it

Ha ha!

Actually Tim for the Taskbar Group Menu, I set my colors (colours) in the menu items image area, and then remove them from the code and paste them into the taskband group menu background image area code and it works.  At least that's in XP, which is the OS I start every WB in.

That's just what I did actually.....I just removed the "extra" lines that do nothing

Yup!

I, for one, really appreciate these little tips and hints but the start menu popup menu background code doesn't appear to have any colour settings?

Image=testing\more_progs_menu.bmp
TopHeight=3
BottomHeight=3
LeftWidth=25
RightWidth=3
ContentLeft=4
ContentRight=1
ContentTop=1
ContentBottom=1
Tile=0

and so I wonder, can the colour of the text be changed by adding the code regardless in other areas. for buttons should the order listed be the same as the button order and do all of the states need to have a colour assigned or can you change the focus color and the leave the rest to be coloured by default?

you could delete the mouse over graphic which would change the color from either black to white or the other way around and then reinsert the mouseover graphic. but once it was changed it was for good.