My icons have gone lowres... Help!

[Jose]

Recently, the icons on my computer have gone "lowres."
While the icons on the desktop, the task bar, windows
explorer, open dialog window, IE,
etc look as if I had my computer set to 256 colors.

I updated the video drivers and nothing...

My video cards (I have 2 monitors) are less than a year
old and good quality (nvidia g4 64megs each). My monitors
are brand new (samsung 19" flat screen crt's).

Images look fine. I'm a graphic designer and all images I
open in photoshop have perfect color depth, definition,
and balance. It appears to be just the icons that have
gone haywire!

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance

Jose

 

[crouchie1998]

What version of DiectX are you running?

Latest Version (End-User Runtime) 10 KB - 166157 KB:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?
FamilyID=141d5f9e-07c1-462a-baef-
5eab5c851cf5&displaylang=en

Latest Version (Redistributable) 32614 KB:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?
FamilyID=a6dee0db-dcce-43ea-87bb-
7c7e1fd1eaa2&displaylang=en

 

[Steve Parry [MVP]]

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Recently, the icons on my computer have gone "lowres."
While the icons on the desktop, the task bar, windows
explorer, open dialog window, IE,
etc look as if I had my computer set to 256 colors.

I updated the video drivers and nothing...

My video cards (I have 2 monitors) are less than a year
old and good quality (nvidia g4 64megs each). My monitors
are brand new (samsung 19" flat screen crt's).

Images look fine. I'm a graphic designer and all images I
open in photoshop have perfect color depth, definition,
and balance. It appears to be just the icons that have
gone haywire!

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance

Jose

I've seen users have this problem in the past when they've been
using NetMeeting, I seem to recall a setting in there to force 16
colour icons ...

 

[Bob I]

R-click Desktop, Properties, Settings, Checkbox for "Show Icons....."