Appearance issue in Windows XP

[morten]

Im having problems with the appearance in windows xp. There are two
ways (so far) that I can address these visual predicements.

One is within Office 2003: My office has severely changed appearance.
My Outlook now looks like this: http://www.diskusjon.no/index.php?act=Attach&type=post&id=135012.
It is suppose to be more like this: http://www.diskusjon.no/index.php?act=Attach&type=post&id=135309.
I have found out that Office appearance is controlled by windows
appearance under "display properties -> appearance". I have tried
everything here. Nothing helps.

The other is that my desktop icon text are embedded with colorfilled
background. For this problem I have found two general solutions. The
first solution is to go to "system properties -> advanced ->
performance settings" and check the box "Use drop shadows for icon
labels on the desktop". And the other is to uncheck a box for "Lock
Web Items on Desktop" under "Display properties -> desktop ->
customize desktop -> Web". I have tried these solutions and still I do
not get back the transparent icon-text-background. Annoying as hell,
yeah!

So I thought that it might be something I've installed recently that
made a mess of my appearance. Going through my list of installed
software I do not find anything that isnt installed on my other
computer (where the appearance is fine).

I have also searched through the computer with Lavasoft Ad-Aware and
Avira Antivir. - nothing found.

Im going crazy here, this has never happened before and I can not find
anyone with similar problem.
Im guessing this is a general windows xp blooper so I hope someone
here can help me

plz reply if you have suggests

regards
Morten

 

[Ayush]

my desktop icon text are embedded with colorfilled
background.

1.Remove all Active desktop items :
-Right click Desktop
-Properties
-Desktop tab
-'Customize desktop' button
-Web tab
-Uncheck all items and click OK twice.

2. Uncheck Lock icons :
-Right click Desktop
-Point to Arrange icons by
-Uncheck "Lock web items"

3. Enable 'Use Drop shadows for icons' :
-Click Start > Run
-Type sysdm.cpl ,3
-Press Enter or Click OK
-Click the first "Settings" button (under Performance)
-Scroll down and tick "Use drop shadows for icon labels...."
-Click OK twice.




Good Luck, Ayush.

 

[morten]

(e-mail address removed) wrote ::


1.Remove all Active desktop items :
-Right click Desktop
-Properties
-Desktop tab
-'Customize desktop' button
-Web tab
-Uncheck all items and click OK twice.

2. Uncheck Lock icons :
-Right click Desktop
-Point to Arrange icons by
-Uncheck "Lock web items"

3. Enable 'Use Drop shadows for icons' :
-Click Start > Run
-Type sysdm.cpl ,3
-Press Enter or Click OK
-Click the first "Settings" button (under Performance)
-Scroll down and tick "Use drop shadows for icon labels...."
-Click OK twice.

Good Luck, Ayush.

1. done
2. done
3. done

Like I wrote before: All that is done but nothing accomplished. Still
colorfilled text background on desktop icons. Still old look in Office.

 

[Guest]

I read this post and couldn't remember ever seeing the "web tab" you refer
to. I checked and I don't seem to have it in XP SP2. Is it always supposed to
be there?

Thanks

Sorry Morten, didn't mean to steal your thread...hope you get it fixed.

my desktop icon text are embedded with colorfilled
background.

1.Remove all Active desktop items :
-Right click Desktop
-Properties
-Desktop tab
-'Customize desktop' button
***********-Web tab**************
XP-Tips [Set your windows so they all have the same view] :
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/setup/tips/views.mspx