The System Info dialog provides information about system-wide UI parameters, most of which are accessible to an application via the SystemParametersInfo and GetSystemMetrics API functions.
The System Info dialog, showing the System Metrics tab.
General Info
This tab shows many of the system parameters, organized into the following categories:
- Accessibility parameters
- Desktop parameters
- Icon parameters
- Input parameters
- Menu parameters
- Power parameters
- Screen saver parameters
- Time-out parameters
- UI effect parameters
- Window parameters
System Metrics
Shows the list of system metrics; where the Name column is the name of the metric as defined in the Windows API, and the Value column is the integer value of the metric obtained from the GetSystemMetrics function.
System Colours
Shows the list of system-defined colour constants; where the Name column is the name of the colour as defined in the Windows API, the RGB column is the Red,Green,Blue value of the colour, and the Colour column shows the colour visually.
You can double-click on the Colour column to change a colour.
The Reset button can be used to revert the colours back to the values they
were when this dialog was first opened.
Note: The Operating System will inform all windows of this change (by sending a WM_SYSCOLORCHANGE message). However, this change only affects the current session. The new colors are not saved when the system terminates.