Changing Win32 menu colors
colors, menu, winapi
Solution
If I believe your comment to Rob, it is for a skinned application, with special look and feel. So the way to go is probably indeed, as ferek points out (in an unfriendly way...) to use owner-drawn menus: you will be able to define precisely their look.
Problem
Is there a way to change the colors used by plain Win32 menus (background, text, and highlight) for a single process, without using SetSysColors? (SetSysColors does a global change, which is bad, and if you crash or forget to set the colors back with SetSysColors again before exiting, they will not be restored until you logout.)