Windows Icons

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I'm having an issue with my Windows desktop. The
background settings are at 16 bit color (true/high color),
but however, the icons on the desktop remain grainy, as
though they are in a 256 color mode. Is there any way to
fix this? Thanks much!
 
16bit is NOT 'true/high" color. That is High color. 24 and 32bit are True color. The reason why your icons look the way they do is because you are using 16-bit High color.
 
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16bit is NOT 'true/high" color. That is High color. 24
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and 32bit are True color. The reason why your icons look
the way they do is because you are using 16-bit High color.
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George Hester
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On the surface it appears the video drivers are not
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loaded. Ensure the correct video drivers are loaded. If
you have a dell pc you can download the drivers from their
site. If the PC was made for NT/98 and you loaded say
2000/XP you may find that the machine manufacture did not
make or update the video drivers for these OS. You are
not completly out of luck though, you can still load the
98/NT video drivers to solve the resolution issue. You
can look inside the PC an get a fell of the video driver
manufacture, go to thier site, if it still exist, and
download the drivers.
 
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Subject: Windows Icons
Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 17:17:39 -0700

I'm having an issue with my Windows desktop. The
background settings are at 16 bit color (true/high color),
but however, the icons on the desktop remain grainy, as
though they are in a 256 color mode. Is there any way to
fix this? Thanks much!
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Refreshing your icon cache might help you. Windows recreates the
ShellIconCache file when you
change the colour depth of your display. Change it, then change it back,
does it fix your problem ??

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I'm sorry, but when I refresh the icons cache display, the
icons remain the same. Like I said, my computer display
settings are on High color (16 bit), and the background
image looks like it, but the icons remain to be in 256
colors. I'm not sure, but I'm considering formatting the
whole hard drive and reinstalling windows and the software
that I need.
 
I'm sorry, but when I refresh the icons cache display, the
icons remain the same. Like I said, my computer display
settings are on High color (16 bit), and the background
image looks like it, but the icons remain to be in 256
colors. I'm not sure, but I'm considering formatting the
whole hard drive and reinstalling windows and the software
that I need.
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Reinstalling Windows is unlikely to help, except possibly by accident.
Here's something to check before you do that. Right-click on the desktop,
then choose Properties, Effects, and make sure that "Show icons using all
possible colors" is checked.
 
Hello,
I'm sorry, but when I refresh the icons cache display, the
icons remain the same. Like I said, my computer display
settings are on High color (16 bit), and the background
image looks like it, but the icons remain to be in 256
colors. I'm not sure, but I'm considering formatting the
whole hard drive and reinstalling windows and the software
that I need.
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There is a setting for display (right click in desktop), in
my german win2000 it's called "Effekte" (effects) in other
systems I remember it as a "Plus!" tab. Here is the setting
for showing symbols in high color. Is it checked?

Regards,
Thorsten
 
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