How to increase contrast of Windows 7 Menu Item highlight

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Published on 2009-10-23T07:51:49Z Indexed on 2010/03/13 12:05 UTC
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The Windows 7 menu item highlight effect is quite subtle - on my machine, menu items go from light grey to having a light blue shading. This makes it quite hard to tell at a glance which exact menu item is highlighted at any one time. You can see an example (from Firefox) here:

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Is there an easy way to increase the contrast of the menu item highlight effect, without having to go all-out to an over the top high-contrast color scheme?

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