I just installed new version 14.0.0.1003 on my Windows 7 Home Premium (x64) system. I do not like the dark theme that is the default. I find a lot of the screen text hard to read. I want a light background. I've searched the forum(s) and did find something that said this could be changed under the "Color and Font branch under Configuration" however that was from 2011 and there is no such choice under Options/Configuration or any of the listings there. I also found some discussions of a tool for themes but that referred to UltraEdit. How can I change this theme? As it stands now UC is almost unusable for me.

I'm running UltraEdit Professional Version 21.20.0.1014
and UltraCompare Professional Version 14.0.0.1011

Just installed UltraCompare 14 and the colour scheme had changed, to grey text on a grey background (which I find very difficult to read).

How do I change themes in UltraCompare 14 ?

I found some stuff explaining about themes, and the new features in UltraCompare 14, which said to find themes on the view menu, but my view menu in UltraCompare has the following in it ...

All
Just Differences
Just Matching
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Center On Difference
Show Output Window
Show Explorer & Sessions
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Show Line Numbers
Show Active Line Window
Show Tabs/Spaces
Show Previous File (greyed out)
Toggle Word-Wrap
Relational Lines Mode
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Browser View
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Synchronize
Refresh
Go (greyed out)

I cannot find anything in the menus about themes.

Thanks, Mofi.

I had to try several things, but eventually got the Themes menu available under the View Menu.
In case anyone else needs to know, I had to do this (or at least this is what worked for me):

1. From the Options Menu, select Configuration.
2. In the tree that appears, open "Toolbars / Menus" and click on Management.
3. To the right of the tree, click Manage Toolbars, then Reset All, then Close.
4. To the right of the tree, click Manage Menus, then Reset All, then Close.
5. Click OK (to close configuration window).

I found the first item on the View menu is now Themes, however when I selected a different theme, it crashed and closed UltraCompare.
When I started UltraCompare again, it had returned to the original colors and everything seems OK.

I am using UC Professional 15.20.0.6. Every time I start UC, I get the message "The Menu file is out-of-date. UltraCompare will update it now". I click OK and main window displays. It doesn't update anything. Same message every time I start UC.

I have tried everything in this thread but nothing has worked. I can't see the "Themes" option in the View Menu. Even reinstalling didn't help.

Has anyone any ideas?

Thanks in advance.
Subhash.

Hi Mofi. Thanks for the quick reply.

I did what you suggested but it didn't work. Here is what I did.

1. Closed UC.
2. Opened the folder %APPDATA%\IDMComp\UltraCompare and deleted the two files, UCCmds32.cmf and UCMNCmdsW32.mcf.
3. Started UC again. Got the message again. Clicked OK and then checked the menu and still "Themes" option was not there.
4. Then did everything else in this thread i.e. reset all menus/ toolbars but no good.
5. Closed UC again.
6. Then I found another folder C:\UltraCompare Portable\Data which also had the two files with current timestamp.
7. Deleted these two files as well.
8. Restarted UC and got the message again. Clicked OK. Menu files appeared again in the folder C:\UltraCompare Portable\Data but not in %APPDATA%\IDMComp\UltraCompare.
9. Menu item "Themes" still didn't show up.

Hi Mofi. Sorry for the oversight. I should have mentioned before that I am using portable version but I didn't realize until I checked the folder name from the desktop shortcut after you replied to my post. UC itself doesn't display anywhere that it is portable. Before posting my question I checked the version of UC. On the title bar of the main screen it displays Text Compare - UltraCompare Professional and under Help - About it displays UltraCompare Professional. After your reply, I looked at the folders and that is when I found out that it is portable version. The folder name is UltraCompare Portable.

Once again sorry and thanks for your help. I will contact IDM and upgrade to a newer version.

Subhash.

PS: On searching the forums, I didn't run into any thread that mentioned that it is a known problem with UC Portable. Just wondering.