Drop down menus are invisible!

[Christopher Martin]

I've searched all over and can't find a solution to this problem. I saw
a previous post to this NG on this but I didn't see a solution. I hope
somebody else who's had this problem has found a solution and can help me
out. The previous posts in other NG I've found on this never actually solved
it...it just sorta fixed itself somehow for some people but not for others
it seems.
A few days ago the drop down menus for all of my applications became
invisible. If I open a drop down menu such as an application's "File" menu I
have to run my mouse over every option and highlight them for them to appear
on my screen. This also occurs when I right click. I haven't changed any of
my video driver settings at all.
This is truly annoying and I can't figure out what's going on. Anybody
seen this problem before and fixed it? I've checked and made sure the menu
font color wasn't the same as the background color and that wasn't the
problem. I've tried restarting the machine from a cold boot as well as a
simple restart and that doesn't work either.

Thanks,
Chris

 

[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

Hi Chris,

Try:
Transparent drop-down Menu and disappearing menu text:
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/transmenu.htm

--
Ramesh, Microsoft MVP
Windows XP Shell/User
http://windowsxp.mvps.org


I've searched all over and can't find a solution to this problem. I saw
a previous post to this NG on this but I didn't see a solution. I hope
somebody else who's had this problem has found a solution and can help me
out. The previous posts in other NG I've found on this never actually solved
it...it just sorta fixed itself somehow for some people but not for others
it seems.
A few days ago the drop down menus for all of my applications became
invisible. If I open a drop down menu such as an application's "File" menu I
have to run my mouse over every option and highlight them for them to appear
on my screen. This also occurs when I right click. I haven't changed any of
my video driver settings at all.
This is truly annoying and I can't figure out what's going on. Anybody
seen this problem before and fixed it? I've checked and made sure the menu
font color wasn't the same as the background color and that wasn't the
problem. I've tried restarting the machine from a cold boot as well as a
simple restart and that doesn't work either.

Thanks,
Chris

 

[Christopher Martin]

Hi Chris,

Try:
Transparent drop-down Menu and disappearing menu text:
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/transmenu.htm


Thanks for the suggestions on this page, but they didn't work. I finally
fixed the problem after clicking on that link at the bottom of the page that
sent me to the AumHa Forums. The last post in that thread it led me to on XP
transparent drop down menus fixed it. My NVidia settings weren't even the
problem nor were the settings you discuss on this link. Somehow in
XP under Control Panel--Display--Appearance--Effects the fade effect box was
checked. I unchecked the box and it fixed it.

 

[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

Thanks for the feedback Chris.

--
Ramesh, Microsoft MVP
Windows XP Shell/User
http://windowsxp.mvps.org


Thanks for the suggestions on this page, but they didn't work. I finally
fixed the problem after clicking on that link at the bottom of the page that
sent me to the AumHa Forums. The last post in that thread it led me to on XP
transparent drop down menus fixed it. My NVidia settings weren't even the
problem nor were the settings you discuss on this link. Somehow in
XP under Control Panel--Display--Appearance--Effects the fade effect box was
checked. I unchecked the box and it fixed it.