Change the hot tracking color of an item in Windows Explorer.

This setting enables you to change the color of an item when the mouse is hovered over Windows Explorer tree item.

Level: Recommended For Novice Users

Description:
The color of the item is displayed in hot tracking color if the mouse is hovered over an item of windows explorer tree. Rgb color combination is put in hot tracking color to change the color. For this, go to start > run menu, enter regedit and navigate to the registry path listed below. You can create a dword value encryptioncontextmenu in the right panel, if this value does not exist. Now, right-click and modify the string value hottrackingcolor to desired color code which can change the color of hot tracking item. However, if you want to show the original color back, change the value data to 0 0 128. <table><tr><td>color</td><td>color_code</td></tr><tr><td>red</td><td>255 0 0</td></tr><tr><td>lime</td><td>0 255 0</td></tr><tr><td>blue</td><td>0 0 255</td></tr><tr><td>yellow</td><td>255 255 0</td></tr><tr><td>white</td><td>255 255 255</td></tr><tr><td>black</td><td>0 0 0</td></tr><tr><td>olive</td><td>80 80 0</td></tr><tr><td>green</td><td>0 80 0</td></tr><tr><td>maroon</td><td>80 0 0</td></tr><tr><td>navy</td><td>0 0 80</td></tr><tr><td>purple</td><td>80 0 80</td></tr><tr><td>grey</td><td>80 80 80</td></tr><tr><td>aqua</td><td>0 255 255</td></tr><tr><td>fuschia</td><td>255 0 255</td></tr><tr><td>silver</td><td>192 192 192</td></tr><tr><td>teal</td><td>0 80 80</td></tr></table> the changes take effect after a restart or logoff. Note: this tweak can be applied in windows 98 and windows me only if active desktop is enabled. When editing the registry it is highly recommended to run a quick scan for optimization, you can test your system now for free.