JSI Tip 0573 - How can I change the color that explorer uses to display compressed objects?

Set AltColor, a type REG_BINARY value name to the RGB (Red, Green, Blue) equivalent of the prefered color. Example:

white would be ffffff00. You would set this value at:

HKEY_Current_UserSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorer

You can also set it at:

HKEY_USER.DEFAULTSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorer

If you want to set it for each user, you can run regedit /s compclr.reg in a login script. Compclr.reg would contain:

REGEDIT4

[HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorer]
"AltColor"=hex:rr,gg,bb,00

where rr is the Red component, gg is the Green component, and bb is the Blue component.

You will have to logoff/logon for the change to take affect.

Here is a table of common colors: