Tried menu text color the other day, that fixed the black on black that I had in search box of windows explorer, tried every other available text item to no avail. It appears that Quickbooks just does its own thing!! I guess I can leave Evolution for a few minutes for booking without withdrawls....Aero option while doing my books will have to do!! Thanks for the help. And super thanks to MR.Grim for the awesome HUD Evolution!