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Shell icon display problems with Dual Monitors
Wednesday, June 23, 2004 at 7:47 am
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Posted by drpugh (1 messages posted)

Ok, I was running dual monitors with 2 video cards. Just before I installed the second video card, everything looked great, but after, it looked nasty. Well, come to find out that I was running 16 bit colors on one monitor and 24 bit on the other. I changed them both to 16 bit, rebooted, but to no help. I then unchecked the box for use all possible colors, applied that, and then rechecked it, and low and behold, it worked!

So, in conclution, If you are running dual monitors, make sure the bitrate are the SAME on both monitors. Then make windows rebuild the cache file.

Good Luck!

Written in response to:: tried all options, none work for me (nevermind: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 at 12:54 am)

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re: Shell icon display problems with Dual Monitors (Dragonmun: Monday, November 15, 2004 at 9:37 pm)

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

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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)

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