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re: How to use true color Icons on XP with 16 bit color depth?
Monday, March 24, 2003 at 8:28 pm
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Posted by rob (52 messages posted)

Great tip. I just tried it but it was already set to 16. I thought I was being anal but I always install Win 98 upgrade to me and then upgrade to xp and so on. I always felt that the last of true dos was important to be installed before upgrading that way most of the settings and stuff are caried thru to the new. Has any one else felt that way?

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? (erani: Wednesday, June 11, 2003 at 12:17 pm)
re: How to use true color Icons on XP with 16 bit color depth? (Jack Mars: Tuesday, December 14, 2004 at 7:55 pm)

All messages in this thread [show all]

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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