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re: Question about 'Use True-Color Icons'
Tuesday, February 8, 2005 at 8:41 pm
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Posted by Srikanth (1 messages posted)

Hello Keith Quite a learning that was for me. Thank you very much for bringing me back to the colorful world of windows! :) cheers srikanth

On Sunday, February 8, 2004 at 4:17 pm, Keith wrote:
>
>Frank,
>Thank you so much for this post!
>The low resoluton icons in Windows 2000 were really getting me down, and I would
>never have thought that NetMeeting was the culprit.
>
>I have summarised the steps I took in case it helps others:
>Open Netmeeting
>From Tools pulldown, select Remote Desktop Sharing.
>
>Go thru the wizard and end by clicking on 'Finish'. This will enable remote desktop
>sharing.
>Then select Remote desktop sharing again and de-select "Enable Remote Desktop Sharing
>on this computer"
>
>Re-boot.
>Icons will still show in low resolution
>
>Go to Display Properties, Effects tab,
>disable "display icons in all possible colors", click Apply, enable
>"display icons in all possible colors", click "Apply" again and your icons should
>be restored!
>
>Keith.
>
>

Written in response to:: re: Question about 'Use True-Color Icons' (Keith: Sunday, February 8, 2004 at 4:17 pm)

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re: Question about 'Use True-Color Icons' (Shiva: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 at 8:13 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)

Solution to weird icon colors (dusoft: Sat, Jun 25, 2005, 2:00 pm)

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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)

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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)

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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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Changed size from 32 to 33 and back to 32 WORKED! for me (Rick: Fri, Feb 6, 2004, 11:30 pm)

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Solved: win2000 Desktop Icons Color problem (cowboy: Tue, Aug 3, 2004, 7:50 am)

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