Presents...           A Zone.com Helpsite

This is information is provided by Dale aka Cyberdad.

Background

 The zone allows you to select font colors from a limited number of values contained in a color pallet in the chat options for any game room.  In reality the zone's chat client will allow you to select any color within limits.  Some of the lighter colors are not allowed by the zone as they would be too light to be visible (try selecting white, cyan or the yellow from the zone's color pallet and they will default to black).  Some values are not legitimate in the windows registry as leading zeros are truncated thus are not permitted.  Other than that the sky is the limit.

 There are third party programs on various sites that will allow you to select colors and use them but in using a program from an unknown source you risk viruses and the programmer making changes to the registry other than the ones they state you are making.  Rather than risk your system by using a third party program you can manually change the stored value for the font color in the registry entry used by the zone to save your preferences.

 To make this easier for those not experienced with editing their registry a small patch file can be used.  You can see what entries are being changed for yourself this way and satisfy your self that the only value changed is that of the chat font color.  This patch is safe and easy to use ... enjoy

 

Dale

(Techie_CD)

 

Instructions:

This reg file is the only key that is required to be changed and the default value is set for black.  Click and Save colors.reg

1. Save the file to a convenient location

2. right click the file and select edit from the context menu

3. Change the hex number to the color you want to use*

4. Save the file with the new value

5. Double click the file to update the chat color

6. enter or close then re-enter the chat rooms