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Icon Color Depth
Greetings,
I have an interesting problem. The icons on my desktop and start menu appear in 16 color mode, even though I am in a true color environment. That is, the color depth is at full, but all the icons display as if you were in a very low color depth. When previewing a desktop theme, the theme displays the icons in true color in the preview window, but you apply them, and the are all cheesy 16-color icons. I can't fix it... Any help would be great. This is likely a registry setting... Thanks, Steven |
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Icon Color Depth
Remember that 16 is the default setting for Shell Icon BPP.
Display High Color Icons http://www.winguides.com/registry/display.php/39/ Shell Icon BPP http://technet2.microsoft.com/window....mspx?mfr=true Shell Icon BPP http://www.microsoft.com/technet/pro....mspx?mfr=true -- Hope this helps. Let us know. Wes MS-MVP Windows Shell/User In , Steven Wormuth hunted and pecked: Greetings, I have an interesting problem. The icons on my desktop and start menu appear in 16 color mode, even though I am in a true color environment. That is, the color depth is at full, but all the icons display as if you were in a very low color depth. When previewing a desktop theme, the theme displays the icons in true color in the preview window, but you apply them, and the are all cheesy 16-color icons. I can't fix it... Any help would be great. This is likely a registry setting... Thanks, Steven |
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Icon Color Depth
I forgot to add this.
For... Shell Icon BPP http://technet2.microsoft.com/window....mspx?mfr=true and... Shell Icon BPP http://www.microsoft.com/technet/pro....mspx?mfr=true "In Microsoft Windows 2000, the Show icons using all possible colors option can be disabled under Display properties. However, in Microsoft Windows XP, this option is not available." from... "Show icons using all possible colors" Option Is Not Available http://support.microsoft.com/kb/282432 -- Hope this helps. Let us know. Wes MS-MVP Windows Shell/User In , Wesley Vogel hunted and pecked: Remember that 16 is the default setting for Shell Icon BPP. Display High Color Icons http://www.winguides.com/registry/display.php/39/ Shell Icon BPP http://technet2.microsoft.com/window....mspx?mfr=true Shell Icon BPP http://www.microsoft.com/technet/pro....mspx?mfr=true -- Hope this helps. Let us know. Wes MS-MVP Windows Shell/User In , Steven Wormuth hunted and pecked: Greetings, I have an interesting problem. The icons on my desktop and start menu appear in 16 color mode, even though I am in a true color environment. That is, the color depth is at full, but all the icons display as if you were in a very low color depth. When previewing a desktop theme, the theme displays the icons in true color in the preview window, but you apply them, and the are all cheesy 16-color icons. I can't fix it... Any help would be great. This is likely a registry setting... Thanks, Steven |
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Icon Color Depth
That tweak managed to fix the color depth... Thank you! One problem
remains though... It seems as though some icons have a plain white background rather than showing the shadows... I have a small screen shot (.jpg), but I won't post it in this text group... If you need a closer look, let me know and I'll send it to you... Any other ideas for this one? Thanks, Steven On Sat, 5 May 2007 12:00:27 -0600, "Wesley Vogel" wrote: I forgot to add this. For... Shell Icon BPP http://technet2.microsoft.com/window....mspx?mfr=true and... Shell Icon BPP http://www.microsoft.com/technet/pro....mspx?mfr=true "In Microsoft Windows 2000, the Show icons using all possible colors option can be disabled under Display properties. However, in Microsoft Windows XP, this option is not available." from... "Show icons using all possible colors" Option Is Not Available http://support.microsoft.com/kb/282432 |
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Icon Color Depth
One picture worth thousand words. If you want to send it, remove the 123.
If this is selected... Start | Run | Type or paste: control Sysdm.cpl,System,3 | Click OK | Settings button under Performance | Visual Effects tab | Use drop shadows for icon labels on desktop ....all icon text will be white and transparent. If Right click Desktop | Arrange Icons By | Lock Web Items on Desktop is also selected you get the blue border. If neither of those is selected, you get white text and a blue border. However, Lock Web Items on Desktop adds more of a blue border. See Ramesh's reply here... http://www.pcreview.co.uk/forums/thread-2558190.php BTW, MS has pulled this article... Desktop icons and icon labels may not display background transparency or the drop shadow effect in Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP http://support.microsoft.com/kb/305117 Here's a Portuguese version of 305117 translated to English... http://64.233.179.104/translate_c?hl...26as_qdr%3Dall -- Hope this helps. Let us know. Wes MS-MVP Windows Shell/User In , Steven Wormuth hunted and pecked: That tweak managed to fix the color depth... Thank you! One problem remains though... It seems as though some icons have a plain white background rather than showing the shadows... I have a small screen shot (.jpg), but I won't post it in this text group... If you need a closer look, let me know and I'll send it to you... Any other ideas for this one? Thanks, Steven On Sat, 5 May 2007 12:00:27 -0600, "Wesley Vogel" wrote: I forgot to add this. For... Shell Icon BPP http://technet2.microsoft.com/window....mspx?mfr=true and... Shell Icon BPP http://www.microsoft.com/technet/pro....mspx?mfr=true "In Microsoft Windows 2000, the Show icons using all possible colors option can be disabled under Display properties. However, in Microsoft Windows XP, this option is not available." from... "Show icons using all possible colors" Option Is Not Available http://support.microsoft.com/kb/282432 |
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