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re: Question about 'Use True-Color Icons'
Friday, November 26, 2004 at 4:00 pm
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by bob the builder
(1 messages posted)
After trying everything else, the process of enabling NetMeeting desktop sharing
then disabling it again is what finally worked for me (yep, I tried absolutely everything
else). BUT - NetMeeting wouldn't start (crashed on load) so I had to uninstall my
webcam driver from Device Manager first (right-click and choose uninstall, device
manager is in the list when you right click My Computer and choose 'Manage' - there
are other ways to get to it I don't recall).
My symptoms, in case this sounds familiar:
- desktop icons in 16 awful colours
- winamp visualisation would not display in fullscreen
- winamp desktop overlay broken
- milkdrop winamp visualisation reported error 'graphics card doesn't support advanecd
3d features'
- web cam wouldn't work (and netmeeting wouldn't start)
And yes, thinking back a bit I tried playing with Netmeeting until it crashed.
On Thursday, March 21, 2002 at 5:37 am, MaliXeanz wrote:
>The following is a copy/paste from: http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~q3app/board/messages/70.shtml
>
>(this helped me to get rid of the 16color icons )
>
>4. Why is my Direct3D and/or AGP disabled in Windows2000? (top)
>- This will occur if you have Netmeeting 3.01 running. Since NetMeeting 3.01 is
built
>in to Windows 2000, it cannot be removed. The DESKTOP SHARING element of NetMeeting
>DISABLES DIRECT3D and in most cases, also disables AGP automatically. To reenable
>Direct3D and/or AGP, do the following: - enable desktop sharing by using the desktop
>sharing wizard. - right-click on the Desktop sharing icon (NOT the Netmeeting icon)
>in the taskbar and choose "Exit". - go back into the desktop sharing configuration
>and disable Desktop Sharing. - reboot. Direct3D and/or AGP should be restored. If
>your desktop icons are now in 16 color, go into display properties, click on the
>Effects tab, disable "display icons in all possible colors", click Apply, enable
>"display icons in all possible colors", click "Apply" again and your colors should
>be restored
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>-
>do as it says, the OpenGL & yaddayadda is irrelevant. but the stuff about Netmeeting&stuff
>actually works.
>
>------------- Malice
>
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