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re: tried all options, none work for me - except this!
Wednesday, April 28, 2004 at 2:46 am
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Andy Gee
(1 messages posted)
Like you, I tried all of these fixes but none worked until I clicked use large icons!
Go to "start / settings / control panel" and double-click "display". Under the "effects"
tab, make sure there is a check in the box for "use large icons". Click the "apply"
button.
After which I reverted back to small icons and everything is now fine!
On Tuesday, February 26, 2002 at 12:54 am, nevermind wrote:
>in the course of this whole series of messages having to do with true-color icons,
>several solutions have been offered as to how to fix the problem where shell icons
>(icons in taskbar, start menu, windows explorer, etc.) are displayed as 8-bit/256-colors,
>even though the screen display is set to 16-bit/65536-colors or higher. none of
these
>solutions have worked for me, but im going to go over all of them anyways, if just
>to simply make things eaiser for others with the same problem.
>
>
>1. download a program such as Tweak UI (http://www.microsoft.com/ntworkstation/downloads/PowerToys/Networking/NTTweakUI.asp).
>after installing Tweak UI, in its "repair" section, there is an option to repair
>icons. use it.
>
>
>2. go to "start / settings / control panel" and double-click "display". under the
>"effects" tab, make sure there is a check in the box for "show icons using all possible
>colors". click the "apply" button.
>
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>3. go to the "settings" tab, and make sure that there is a picture of only one monitor.
>if there are multiple monitors, try to disable the non-primary ones (im not sure
>how to do this, since i dont have multiple monitors or video cards, but i believe
>it can be done with some right-click menus). again, hit "apply", then "ok".
>
>
>4. go to "start / run" and type in "regedit". in the program that runs, navigate
>to "HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Control Panel \ Desktop \ WindowMetrics". if there is no
>"Shell Icon BPP" entry on the right side of the window, create one by going to "edit
>/ new / string value". make sure its value is 16 or higher; if not, right-click
it,
>select "modify", and change it. close the program.
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>5. open up windows explorer, and navigate to "C:\windows\". delete a file called
>"ShellIconsCache". note that you must be able to view hidden and system files to
>find this file; to enable this option, go to "tools / folder options" in windows
>explorer, and look under the "view" tab.
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>
>6. restart your computer.
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>
>anyways, even after following all these options, i still have crappy icons. ive
even
>tried the option of setting the BPP down to 4, restarting, then changing it back
>to 16, in hopes of one of those random times when the problem goes away from unlikely
>fixes. so, if anyone has any more ideas, PLEASE email me at "nevermind@phreaker.net"
>immediately. i really cant stand these low-color icons. well, hope i maybe
>helped out someone else in the process of this post.
>
>~ nevermind
>EMAIL: nevermind@phreaker.net
>EMAIL: nevermind@twmi.rr.com
>AIM: NevermindPhreak
>MSN: NevermindPhreak@hotmail.com
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