Visited links color

[Silver Surfer]

In a Google newsgroup one of the posters described having the exact same
problem I'm experiencing.

It has to do with the color of the links on a Google search results page.
The visited links remain blue. They don't change to magenta like they used
to do pre-Vista.

I stumbled on a way to get the visited links to change color, but it doesn't
seem like the change should be necessary. Went into Internet Tools on the
General tab and brought up the "accessibility" and "color" dialogs. Under
"accessibility" I checked "ignore colors specified on Web pages" check box.
Under "colors" I unchecked the "use windows colors" box, and accepted all
the default color settings for fonts, background, links, etc. except
background. Changed that from gray to white. That fixed the visited link
color problem, but IE7 now overrides the colors on pages it displays using
the colors spelled out inside my "color" button.

Where do you think this problem originated? Vista? IE7? Google?
Combination?

 

[Jon]

In a Google newsgroup one of the posters described having the exact same
problem I'm experiencing.

It has to do with the color of the links on a Google search results page.
The visited links remain blue. They don't change to magenta like they
used to do pre-Vista.

I stumbled on a way to get the visited links to change color, but it
doesn't seem like the change should be necessary. Went into Internet
Tools on the General tab and brought up the "accessibility" and "color"
dialogs. Under "accessibility" I checked "ignore colors specified on Web
pages" check box. Under "colors" I unchecked the "use windows colors" box,
and accepted all the default color settings for fonts, background, links,
etc. except background. Changed that from gray to white. That fixed the
visited link color problem, but IE7 now overrides the colors on pages it
displays using the colors spelled out inside my "color" button.

Where do you think this problem originated? Vista? IE7? Google?
Combination?

I've not seen that problem with Vista.

There are reset options on the Advanced tab of IE7 ('Restore Advanced
Settings' and 'Reset'), as well as an option to run Internet Explorer with
'no add-ons' (for testing purposes)

Start > internet > Click the 'Internet Explorer (no add-ons) option