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re: Question about 'Use True-Color Icons'
Sunday, December 9, 2001 at 1:43 am
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Posted by Kenric Tam (1 messages posted)

i found a solution, at least for me. I had the same problem in Windows XP, and it's even worse in XP because there IS no optoin for "show icons using all possible colors" or "high color" Windows XP is SUPPOSED to do it ALWAYS. But my icons were all still ugly for some reason. It just happened, and this was a fresh installation of Windows Xp. In any case, a little research using www.google.com revealed to me this webpage at: http://www.virtualplastic.org/html/icn_sys.html which isn't exactly us, but here's the kicker, it tells you how to manually edit the registry to set the icon color depth: Find the key "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\WindowMetrics" Select it.

On the right there must be a string value called "Shell Icon BPP", if it's not there, create it. Rightclick on it, choose Modify. Enter your color depth, i.e. 16, 24 or 32. Restart. The problem with me was that it would be ugly even though I was running in 16bit. But when I changed my desktop to 32bit, it was beautiful once again. I went into the registry, and found that the setting was currently at 32bit. I changed it to 16, reboot, and voila, it worked! Give it a shot and let me know how things turn out for you. :-)

Written in response to:: Question about 'Use True-Color Icons' (Prippy: Tuesday, October 30, 2001 at 6:20 am)

Responses to this message:
oops, here's a fixed posting (Kenric Tam: Sunday, December 9, 2001 at 1:43 am)

re: Icon Problem resolved for Dell Optiplex GX110 and alike. (M Wilson (Web Developer): Friday, February 15, 2002 at 2:41 am)

re: Question about 'Use True-Color Icons' (PJ Llobell: Tuesday, April 15, 2003 at 4:51 pm)

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re: Question about 'Use True-Color Icons' (Kenric Tam: Sun, Dec 9, 2001, 1:43 am)

oops, here's a fixed posting (Kenric Tam: Sun, Dec 9, 2001, 1:43 am)

re: oops, here's a fixed posting (John Gregory: Sat, Aug 16, 2003, 9:20 pm)

re: Icon Problem resolved for Dell Optiplex GX110 and alike. (M Wilson (Web Developer): Fri, Feb 15, 2002, 2:41 am)

re: Icon Problem resolved for Dell Optiplex GX110 and alike. (Daniel Pumpkin: Wed, Apr 17, 2002, 7:42 am)

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