re: How to use true color Icons on XP with 16 bit color depth? Tuesday, August 12, 2003 at 8:13 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by DJStealth (22 messages posted) Unfortunately, although this works with XP System Icons; it does not seem to work with program icons such as "Palm Desktop" which is different in 32 bit mode; as well as a few other application icons that support 32bit icons. 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) > Written in response to: 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? (aCiDByTe: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 at 10:23 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) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum