Icon Color Depth

[Steven Wormuth]

Greetings,

I have an interesting problem.

The icons on my desktop and start menu appear in 16 color mode, even
though I am in a true color environment. That is, the color depth is
at full, but all the icons display as if you were in a very low color
depth.

When previewing a desktop theme, the theme displays the icons in true
color in the preview window, but you apply them, and the are all
cheesy 16-color icons. I can't fix it...

Any help would be great. This is likely a registry setting...

Thanks,
Steven

 

[Wesley Vogel]

Remember that 16 is the default setting for Shell Icon BPP.

Display High Color Icons
http://www.winguides.com/registry/display.php/39/

Shell Icon BPP
http://technet2.microsoft.com/windo...6185-49cf-92af-4c324cf23d771033.mspx?mfr=true

Shell Icon BPP
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windows2000serv/reskit/regentry/58837.mspx?mfr=true

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Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

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[Wesley Vogel]

I forgot to add this.

For...
Shell Icon BPP
http://technet2.microsoft.com/windo...6185-49cf-92af-4c324cf23d771033.mspx?mfr=true
and...
Shell Icon BPP
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windows2000serv/reskit/regentry/58837.mspx?mfr=true

"In Microsoft Windows 2000, the Show icons using all possible colors option
can be disabled under Display properties. However, in Microsoft Windows XP,
this option is not available."
from...
"Show icons using all possible colors" Option Is Not Available
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/282432

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[Steven Wormuth]

That tweak managed to fix the color depth... Thank you! One problem
remains though...

It seems as though some icons have a plain white background rather
than showing the shadows... I have a small screen shot (.jpg), but I
won't post it in this text group... If you need a closer look, let me
know and I'll send it to you...

Any other ideas for this one?

Thanks,
Steven

 

[Wesley Vogel]

One picture worth thousand words. If you want to send it, remove the 123.

If this is selected...
Start | Run | Type or paste: control Sysdm.cpl,System,3 | Click OK |
Settings button under Performance | Visual Effects tab |
Use drop shadows for icon labels on desktop
....all icon text will be white and transparent.

If Right click Desktop | Arrange Icons By | Lock Web Items on Desktop is
also selected you get the blue border.

If neither of those is selected, you get white text and a blue border.
However, Lock Web Items on Desktop adds more of a blue border.

See Ramesh's reply here...
http://www.pcreview.co.uk/forums/thread-2558190.php

BTW, MS has pulled this article...
Desktop icons and icon labels may not display background transparency or the
drop shadow effect in Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/305117

Here's a Portuguese version of 305117 translated to English...
http://64.233.179.104/translate_c?h...h?q=+%22kb305117%22&hl=en&lr=&sa=G&as_qdr=all

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