How to change the color of the clock text in the taskbar in Windows 10?

I have a black taskbar and all the text on it is white. This is what I want. However, after the latest Windows 10 Anniversary Update, the text of the clock has turned black. Black on black is hard to see, and I would like to fix this.

All other text, e.g. my keyboard layout is still written in white - which is OK. Just the clock text is the problem.

I searched in few places - in the settings of the clock and in the personalization page, but I could not find anything related. Any ideas?

You need to reset your theme to one of the windows defaults. You can then add your own background etc and save it as a custom theme. Theme settings are found in Settings - Personalization - Themes.

There is an awesome open source fix : T-Clock (don't forget to star the project to thanks the author). It can be highly customized:

Bonus: it also comes with a lot of options (could not live without it)

I had exactly the same issue, with no luck

In the end i went to C:\Windows\Resources\Themes and selected theme1.theme, This did change the colour scheme and background but my clock went back to being white

I then just changed the colours and background to what i wanted

i really hope this helps

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