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Bad icon colors, please help!

October 13, 2002 8:19:08 PM from WinCustomize ForumsWinCustomize Forums
I've recently downloaded WindowBlinds and IconPackager, so this problem could relate to either of them. After I installed the programs, every single icon on my computer has switched to 16-color format. It looks REALLY bad now... I've tried everything to get my icons to look normal again--uninstalling, reinstalling, even resetting the settings for my user profile. My computer resolution is 1024 x 768 at True Color, and I have the "Use all possible colors for icons" option checked.

This is really frustrating... I hope you can help me.

Thanks,
Yoshi
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Reply #1 October 13, 2002 8:23:06 PM
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Forgot to put in my previous message-- I'm running Windows 2000.

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Reply #2 October 14, 2002 4:20:53 AM
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Uncheck "Use all possible colors", Sometimes it lowers color display to 16 colors. Restart. If it doesn't help, there's a tweak at www.VirtualPastic.net that explains how to set your color format back to 24 or 32 bit
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Reply #3 October 14, 2002 6:40:48 AM
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Also, if you are using an iconpackage designed for Windows XP, the icons will look all raggedy with black outlines.....
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Reply #4 October 14, 2002 7:56:10 AM
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This helped when I was running Windows 98, don't know about Windows 2000:
1. Open C\Windows\Regedit.exe,or x\winnt\regedit.exe.
2. Find the key "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\WindowMetrics"
3. Select it.
4. On the right there must be a string value called "Shell Icon BPP",
if it's not there, create it.
5. Rightclick on it, choose Modify.
6. Enter your color depth, i.e. 16, 24 or 32.
7. Restart.
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