IE6 blank default page

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Andrew York

Can anyone please tell me how to change the default
background colour of a blank IE6 Window from the default
white to, let's say black. I had a look through the
registry but couldn't find an entry that seemed relevant,
and changing appearance settings doesn't seem to impact
on the IE default.

Why do I want to change it?

I'm using a custom web-page based desktop (combination of
HTML, JavaScript and Flash), and XP displays a blank
white desktop (which I presume is a IE window??) on start-
up until XP has completed loading, and only then finally
loads my custom web-page based desktop. That blank white
page stays there for 5-10 seconds and sort of annoys me -
that's all.

I'm using Windows XP-SP1 with all the latest updates, a
P4 3.2Ghz with 1GB DDR RAM and a 256MB Geforce-based
graphics card with latest drivers.

All help and advice would be much appreciated.

Andrew York
 
No idea in XP but in Win98, (with or without IE6) it is a setting in
Control Panel-Display-Appearance tab.
The item is Window and you can change the Color.
As it affects all windows, black is not going to be a good choice.

....Alan
 
Hi Alan;

thanks for that. But no, I don't think that's it (tried
already). The white window I'm talking about, seems to be
a blank IE window or some sort of blank desktop window.
Since it's a web-based desktop, XP (or Win98) may use
some sort of IE-based window - I'm not sure here.

Anyway, I'll keep trying

Andrew
-----Original Message-----
No idea in XP but in Win98, (with or without IE6) it is a setting in
Control Panel-Display-Appearance tab.
The item is Window and you can change the Color.
As it affects all windows, black is not going to be a good choice.

....Alan

--
Alan Edwards, MS MVP W95/98 Systems
http://dts-l.org/index.html

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Hi Andrew,

Best of luck.
I don't often touch web-based desktops but when I do, I have not seen
that in any Win9x system.

....Alan
 
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