You'll have to ask MS why they changed the default colors. And you're correct. It is a bad habit to change the color settings. You should leave them set to the default values. That way, the controls will use what the user sets in Windows control panel.

>I am using VFP 5 and have noticed that the RGB colors of controls are different between Win 98 and 2000/XP. I have (the bad habit maybe) of setting the background of controls to (192,192,192) to make them look disabled instead of actually disabling them in certain cases. Why did they change the colors?
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>Thanks!