Assign Different Colours to Different Drives

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Assign Different Colours to Different Drives

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I searched the forum and found some colouring suggestions, but haven't come across this one, which I think would be useful.

Long story short:

I believe (sure in my case) that having an option to assign different colours to different drives would be nice in terms of being sure where I am, even when I'm dying of exhaustion, without having to make sure the path lines are OK.

E.g. Click on C drive button and left side is light green, on the right side click on D drive button and that side turns to some other, user defined colour.

Thank you.
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Post by *ts4242 »

You can do by define color filter
1- Open Configuration dialog> Color page
2- Click on the button "Define colors by file type..."
3- Click on Add button
4- in the new dialog click on Define... button
5- Type *.* in search for field
6- Go to Plugins tab and select tc-path-contains and type C:\
7- Click on Save button, and type a name for this filter
8- Press OK then choose your color
9- Press OK
10 Press OK

Repeat above steps to define color filter for D drive
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1- Open Configuration dialog> Color page
2- Click on the button "Define colors by file type..."
3- Click on Add button
4- in the new dialog click on Define... button
5- Type *.* in search for field
6- Go to Plugins tab and select tc-path-contains and type C:\
7- Click on Save button, and type a name for this filter
8- Press OK then choose your color
9- Press OK
10 Press OK
Note that you can only change the font color this way- not the background color.
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Post by *vo »

Thanks to both of you.

ts4242, Thanks for the tip I haven't known about. Even though I could maybe find a way around with changing font colours and background and matching them to be long-staring-eye-pleasant, I prefer keeping fonts black and background in some light colour.

petermad,
Note that you can only change the font color this way- not the background color.
- correct.

So, there should be the same logic for background colour change, as ts4242 mentioned for fonts.

Any ideas? Cheers!

PS. Sorry, I see I wasn't clear and haven't mentioned "Background" colour in my initial post.
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Post by *Peter »

The Plugin Twinkey

http://www.mgpsoft.net/Downloads/TWinKey.zip

has different color-features. Take a look at the readme, maybe it can help you.

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Post by *vo »

Thanks Peter, based on the Readme file this might be the one. Only I need to find 64 version...or to replace this one.

Cheers!
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