Resolution to 4-bit Icons on Windows 2000 Monday, March 22, 2004 at 12:54 pm Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Gary Franceschini (1 messages posted) I used all of the methods described on this page and none worked - at best I saw limited success. I did, however, get back my true color icons after some digging, and thought I should post the rather unusual solution here for others. Note that what I describe applies to systems with nVidia video cards. However, the issue here is if you are displaying wallpaper on both desktops - don't! You must select to display wallpaper on one desktop only. My system: -two monitors -dual-head video card (NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti4200) -windows 2000 pro Solution: 1 Right-click the desktop and select nView Properties. 2 Select the Desktops tab. 3 Click Properties. 4 "Allow different wallpapers per monitor" will be selected. Leave it selected. Highlight monitor 2 and click the Clear button. This leaves only monitor 1 displaying wallpaper. 5 Reboot the PC. 6 The icons will display at the color setting of your choice. Gary Written in response to: re: Question about 'Use True-Color Icons' (Scott Mortenson: Thursday, February 19, 2004 at 12:19 pm) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] Question about 'Use True-Color Icons' (Prippy: Tue, Oct 30, 2001, 6:20 am) re: Question about 'Use True-Color Icons' (Brent Smith: Thu, Nov 15, 2001, 10:18 am) re: Question about 'Use True-Color Icons' (Steve Mundro: Tue, Nov 20, 2001, 11:52 am) re: Question about 'Use True-Color Icons' (stripe7: Tue, Dec 25, 2001, 1:40 am) re: Question about 'Use True-Color Icons' (Steve Mundro: Tue, Jan 22, 2002, 11:02 am) re: Question about 'Use True-Color Icons' (Rob Gee: Thu, Jun 6, 2002, 8:26 am) re: Question about 'Use True-Color Icons' (Mark: Thu, Mar 17, 2005, 12:27 pm) 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) re: Icon Problem resolved for Dell Optiplex GX110 and alike. (Mathew Gregson: Fri, Dec 6, 2002, 8:13 pm) re: Question about 'Use True-Color Icons' (PJ Llobell: Tue, Apr 15, 2003, 4:51 pm) re: Question about 'Use True-Color Icons' (hank: Tue, Dec 11, 2001, 11:13 am) re: Question about 'Use True-Color Icons' (cls386@psu.edu: Wed, Dec 26, 2001, 5:09 am) tried all options, none work for me (nevermind: Tue, Feb 26, 2002, 12:54 am) w00t!... found something that worked... (nevermind: Mon, Apr 15, 2002, 8:59 pm) re: tried all options, none work for me (Mike Halligan: Tue, Oct 22, 2002, 4:27 pm) re: tried all options, none work for me - except this! (Andy Gee: Wed, Apr 28, 2004, 2:46 am) Solution to weird icon colors (dusoft: Sat, Jun 25, 2005, 2:00 pm) re: Solution to weird icon colors (BOHICA: Thu, Jul 7, 2005, 9:25 am) Shell icon display problems with Dual Monitors (drpugh: Wed, Jun 23, 2004, 7:47 am) re: Shell icon display problems with Dual Monitors (Dragonmun: Mon, Nov 15, 2004, 9:37 pm) re: Question about 'Use True-Color Icons' : This Works (Nishant Upadhyaya: Mon, Mar 18, 2002, 3:03 pm) re: Question about 'Use True-Color Icons' : This Works (Misael: Sun, Apr 11, 2004, 11:54 pm) re: Question about 'Use True-Color Icons' : Finally this worked (eWiz: Sun, Jan 23, 2005, 8:22 am) re: Question about 'Use True-Color Icons' (MaliXeanz: Thu, Mar 21, 2002, 5:37 am) re: Question about 'Use True-Color Icons' (mike: Thu, Mar 21, 2002, 1:39 pm) re: Question about 'Use True-Color Icons' (Keith: Sun, Feb 8, 2004, 4:17 pm) re: Question about 'Use True-Color Icons' (Srikanth: Tue, Feb 8, 2005, 8:41 pm) re: Question about 'Use True-Color Icons' (Shiva: Wed, Feb 23, 2005, 8:13 am) re: Question about 'Use True-Color Icons' (Cory: Mon, Apr 1, 2002, 6:43 am) re: Question about 'Use True-Color Icons' (Sean Bartnik: Mon, Jul 1, 2002, 3:59 pm) re: Question about 'Use True-Color Icons' (ps: Tue, Oct 29, 2002, 2:53 pm) re: Question about 'Use True-Color Icons' (jason k: Thu, Jan 6, 2005, 6:03 am) re: Question about 'Use True-Color Icons' (or: Fri, Jan 14, 2005, 5:22 am) re: Question about 'Use True-Color Icons' (Rudemeister: Sun, Apr 14, 2002, 10:34 am) re: Question about 'Use True-Color Icons' (David: Wed, Apr 24, 2002, 6:09 pm) re: Question about 'Use True-Color Icons' (LazyZealot: Fri, May 3, 2002, 6:51 pm) re: Question about 'Use True-Color Icons' (Sa'ar: Sat, Feb 8, 2003, 4:47 pm) re: Question about 'Use True-Color Icons' (ThaGroov: Sun, Jun 1, 2003, 5:06 am) re: Question about 'Use True-Color Icons' (Paul: Sat, May 4, 2002, 10:28 pm) re: Question about 'Use True-Color Icons' (Wolfgang: Mon, May 13, 2002, 2:04 am) re: Question about 'Use True-Color Icons' (mf4: Sun, Jun 2, 2002, 4:56 am) re: Question about 'Use True-Color Icons' (Diji: Wed, Jul 24, 2002, 1:33 pm) re: Question about 'Use True-Color Icons' (Wayne Yang: Tue, Sep 17, 2002, 11:57 pm) re: Question about 'Use True-Color Icons' (Eivind: Tue, Nov 26, 2002, 5:13 pm) re: disabling netmeeting desktop sharing worked (James Bivens: Fri, Jan 24, 2003, 11:45 am) WOW! iT'S WORKS TAHNKS!!!: disabling netmeeting desktop sharing worked (Ottavio: Sat, Mar 1, 2003, 2:14 am) Flight Simulator 2002 (Ace: Fri, Oct 3, 2003, 10:52 pm) re: disabling netmeeting desktop sharing worked (Pedro Remedios: Mon, Apr 28, 2003, 1:50 pm) re: disabling netmeeting desktop sharing worked (Yellong: Fri, Sep 5, 2003, 7:36 am) re: FIXED!!! disabling netmeeting desktop sharing worked (Mark: Mon, Jan 31, 2005, 11:28 pm) re: Question about 'Use True-Color Icons' (Harold: Fri, Feb 28, 2003, 12:25 am) re: Question about 'Use True-Color Icons' (Qi: Thu, Apr 24, 2003, 8:49 pm) re: Question about 'Use True-Color Icons' - This worked for me! 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