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Solved: win2000 Desktop Icons Color problem
Tuesday, August 3, 2004 at 7:50 am
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Posted by cowboy (2 messages posted)

Well, i have had the same problem: My beautiful desktop-icons suddenly turned ugly! The solution was too simple. As most solutions to most problems are ;) It started when I started using the double head feature of my graphics card to watch movies on my TV. So I guess this problem has to do with the desktop-extending feature! Here's what you do: - Right-click on your normal desktop. - Click "Properties" - Click "Settings" - Click "Effects" - Make sure that "Display icons in all possible colors" is turned on. - Now, Select the OTHER monitor - Click "Effects" - Make sure that "Display icons in all possible colors" is turned on. This should solve your problems! If you need more info, contact me. Cheers! Willy

On Tuesday, October 30, 2001 at 6:20 am, Prippy wrote:
>I have a question about Use
>True-Color Icons:

>
>I have a Dell Inspiron 8000 with Win2000 and had nice true-color icons when I started
>using it. However, this suddenly changed and I got bad Low-color Icons. I tried to
>use the instructions in this article to correct that, but the checkbox "use high-color"
>is already checked. I tried to uncheck it, go out, in again, check it and go out,
>but this didn't help (although it redrew all icons). Any ideas? Thanks!
>

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

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re: Solved: win2000 Desktop Icons Color problem (degrgiov: Friday, November 12, 2004 at 12:26 am)

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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)

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re: Solution to weird icon colors (BOHICA: Thu, Jul 7, 2005, 9:25 am)

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re: Question about 'Use True-Color Icons' : This Works (Misael: Sun, Apr 11, 2004, 11:54 pm)

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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! (Russ McClay: Tue, Oct 7, 2003, 1:06 am)

re: Question about 'Use True-Color Icons' (Tiffany: Wed, Nov 5, 2003, 7:22 pm)

re: Question about 'Use True-Color Icons' (kj: Sat, Nov 22, 2003, 8:08 pm)

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re: Question about 'Use True-Color Icons' (Ali: Mon, Dec 26, 2005, 10:58 pm)

re: Question about 'Use True-Color Icons' (Vinod: Fri, Jan 6, 2006, 3:46 am)

re: Question about 'Use True-Color Icons' (Gakk Simian: Wed, Mar 15, 2006, 4:44 am)

re: NetMeeting issue >> resolved my color loss (Nicole: Thu, Oct 12, 2006, 2:07 pm)

re: Question about 'Use True-Color Icons' (RFOAP: Tue, Jun 4, 2002, 10:02 am)

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This worked for me! (Scotty: Fri, Jun 7, 2002, 7:53 am)

re: This worked for me! THNX THNX THNX!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (supergroover: Fri, Nov 1, 2002, 2:35 am)

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Netmeeting/Netsupport is the problem! You're right! (js: Sat, Oct 5, 2002, 2:57 am)

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