Icons Changed

[AbbN]

Hi,

I used Tweak UI to change the shortcut arrow from large to small.
Immediately after that they icons seemed to go to 256 colour mode (ugly!). I
have my "color quality" set to 16 bit which is fine for me - pictures look
great. Everything else is still fine. Reverting the icons back didn't change
anything, they're still in a 256 colour mode. The only way to get them back
is set my colour to 32 bit. Using 32 bit slows my machine down which is why
I don't use it. Obviously Tweak did something. Any ideas????

Thanks in Advance
Abb N

 

[Ramesh [MVP]]

Hi,

Try the fix at Line #4. "Repairs the Icon View" @
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm

--
Ramesh, MS-MVP XP Shell/UI
http://www.mvps.org/sramesh2k


Hi,

I used Tweak UI to change the shortcut arrow from large to small.
Immediately after that they icons seemed to go to 256 colour mode (ugly!). I
have my "color quality" set to 16 bit which is fine for me - pictures look
great. Everything else is still fine. Reverting the icons back didn't change
anything, they're still in a 256 colour mode. The only way to get them back
is set my colour to 32 bit. Using 32 bit slows my machine down which is why
I don't use it. Obviously Tweak did something. Any ideas????

Thanks in Advance
Abb N

 

[AbbN]

Hi,

It worked!!!!
Many MANY Thanks

Abb N

 

[Ramesh [MVP]]

Glad that helped. Thanks for letting us know.

--
Ramesh, MS-MVP XP Shell/UI
http://www.mvps.org/sramesh2k


Hi,

It worked!!!!
Many MANY Thanks

Abb N

 

[Alex Nichol]

I used Tweak UI to change the shortcut arrow from large to small.
Immediately after that they icons seemed to go to 256 colour mode (ugly!). I
have my "color quality" set to 16 bit which is fine for me - pictures look
great. Everything else is still fine. Reverting the icons back didn't change
anything, they're still in a 256 colour mode

The arrow change should not do this; but the 'Repair icons' in TweakUI
does - it resets color depth on icons incorrectly. Start - Run -
regedit.exe

Open the left panel, explorer style to
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\desktop\WindowMetrics

and in the right pane double click Shell Icon BPP and set to 16