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re: How to use true color Icons on XP with 16 bit color depth?
Friday, November 8, 2002 at 7:41 pm
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Posted by Brendan O'Leary (1 messages posted)

Thats all well and good but mine is already set to 16 but my icons still look crappy. Anyway to test the colors I'm using so as to figure out if its just the icons, just windows desktop, or if its everything?

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


Responses to this message:
re: How to use true color Icons on XP with 16 bit color depth? (Paul: Friday, April 11, 2003 at 8:17 pm)
re: How to use true color Icons on XP with 16 bit color depth? (Gene J: Wednesday, December 15, 2004 at 12:13 am)

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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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