Darken dialogue box colors?

[Dee22575246sxjk]

Hi, all

Using Win10, the adobe free version of ID CS2. Fired it up to see about doing a final upgrade on the last of both my old Pagemaker documents, and some older ID templates. When I fire ID up, I'm finding that the text in control boxes (like the color picker, fi) and warning dialogues (or ANY dialogue) is an almost impossible-to-see light gray on white.

I know how to find and change tons of tweaky things in ID, but I can't find anywhere to change dialogue box text color (to make it, say, BLACK on white). Is this possible? If so, where? I'll even hand edit a config file if one has settings for this. 

It's just the dialogue box and toolbox text colors. Everything else is readable.

Did my searching. Found lots of interesting articles--need to start using ID again--but nothing that addressed this particular issue.

Thanks!

Davey (screen shots attached, I hope)

[Dave Creamer of IDEAS]

Take a look at your Windows personalization settings and change your theme settings.

[Dee22575246sxjk]

Alas, no; EVERYTHING but the Adobe software (I'm using Illustrator CS2 and a non-free Photoshop CS4) behaves well. The CS2s have the unreadable text problem, and the Photohop is just glitchy as all get-out. Modifying the windows color settings will just through everything else off. Dang.

It's entirely possible that the explanation is the "program is too old for win10" one. That's been the explanation for all kinds of weirdness. Time to upgrade to Win7, I'm thinking. *sigh*

Thanks, all.

Dj

[BobLevine · Accepted solution]

To repeat...you are using UNLICENSED software but CS2 was released prior to Windows 7. I'm locking this thread. If you want help, pay for the software and we'll be happy to assist you.

[Brad @ Roaring Mouse]

I have a similar issue with an old version of Quickbooks I use on Win 10. Since the screen drawing routines in Win 10 weren't invented yet, older software may not draw properly even if you got the software to run.

If David's advice doesn't work, you might look at downloading a limited trial version of a more up-to-date ID to do your conversions, otherwise if you can still see even the dialogs slightly, carry on and consider yourself fortunate that CS2 is actually functioning at all!

[James Gifford—NitroPress]

...consider yourself fortunate that CS2 is actually functioning at all!

Boy, amen to that. CS2 is so old... ID wasn't really a complete tool until CS3, more a sketch of what it could be.

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[Dave Creamer of IDEAS]

Older software is more dependent on the Windows OS theme. Here are the typical Windows theme colors:

[BobLevine]

The is NO FREE VERSION of CS2. There never was. You are not using licensed software.

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