Craig,

Thanks for your answer, but in this case it doesnt use windows color
setting. The characters are really almost unreadable.

They are not just a different color, the letters are incomplete.

I think that Erik may have the answer when saying that they are
greyd-out, but I wonder then what the DisabledBackColor and
DisabledForeColor properties are for...

Just another MS quirk I guess :)

Pascal