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re: How to use true color Icons on XP with 16 bit color depth?
Friday, March 1, 2002 at 1:50 am
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Posted by Daniel Lohmann (2 messages posted)

Cool! It works. Boy, sometimes things are so easy....

Thanks a lot!

Daniel

On Thursday, February 28, 2002 at 9:14 am, Thermion wrote:

>Here is what to do:
>
> - Run Regedit, and go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\WindowMetrics
> - Change the value of 'Shell Icon BPP' to 16
> - Close Regedit and restart your computer. The icons will now be hi-colour ;o)
>






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How to use true color Icons on XP with 16 bit color depth? (Daniel Lohmann: Thu, Jan 31, 2002, 12:38 pm)

re: How to use true color Icons on XP with 16 bit color depth? (fishears: Tue, Feb 26, 2002, 7:23 am)

re: How to use true color Icons on XP with 16 bit color depth? (Thermion: Thu, Feb 28, 2002, 9:14 am)

re: How to use true color Icons on XP with 16 bit color depth? (Daniel Lohmann: Fri, Mar 1, 2002, 1:50 am)

re: How to use true color Icons on XP with 16 bit color depth? (Brendan O'Leary: Fri, Nov 8, 2002, 7:41 pm)

re: How to use true color Icons on XP with 16 bit color depth? (Paul: Fri, Apr 11, 2003, 8:17 pm)

re: How to use true color Icons on XP with 16 bit color depth? (Menchi: Fri, Jan 9, 2004, 10:45 pm)

re: How to use true color Icons on XP with 16 bit color depth? (Gene J: Wed, Dec 15, 2004, 12:13 am)

re: How to use true color Icons on XP with 16 bit color depth? (Gjalt-Jorn Ygram Peters: Tue, Jan 7, 2003, 2:58 pm)

re: How to use true color Icons on XP with 16 bit color depth? (Daniel Wadman: Tue, Jul 12, 2005, 3:35 am)

re: How to use true color Icons on XP with 16 bit color depth? (rob: Mon, Mar 24, 2003, 8:28 pm)

re: How to use true color Icons on XP with 16 bit color depth? (erani: Wed, Jun 11, 2003, 12:17 pm)

re: How to use true color Icons on XP with 16 bit color depth? (Jack Mars: Tue, Dec 14, 2004, 7:55 pm)

This worked wonders for me! Thanks! (Paul: Fri, Apr 11, 2003, 8:13 pm)

re: How to use true color Icons on XP with 16 bit color depth? (sciphor: Wed, Apr 16, 2003, 8:18 am)

re: How to use true color Icons on XP with 16 bit color depth? (DJStealth: Tue, Aug 12, 2003, 8:13 pm)

re: How to use true color Icons on XP with 16 bit color depth? (aCiDByTe: Tue, Sep 30, 2003, 10:23 pm)

re: How to use true color Icons on XP with 16 bit color depth? (James: Sat, Oct 11, 2003, 11:31 pm)

re: How to use true color Icons on XP with 16 bit color depth? (Yoni: Fri, Dec 10, 2004, 5:13 pm)

re: How to use true color Icons on XP with 16 bit color depth? (Grant Robertson: Fri, Mar 3, 2006, 9:08 am)

re: How to use true color Icons on XP with 16 bit color depth? (M:ke: Thu, Apr 24, 2008, 12:26 am)

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