Win2k Icons...


Recommended Posts

I am Running Win2k Pro and have noticed that all my icons have gone into a Really bad looking (16 Colour).

Tried messing with them in Display Propities > Effects and "use all possible colours for icons" but no joy.

Anyone know why and if so how to fix this.

(Think i read somewhere about a fix/Patch for this)

Link to comment
Share on other sites

To fix this open regedit and goto

HKEY_CURRENT_USERControl PanelDesktopWindowMetrics

and locate the entry named Shell Icon BPP

change the value of that to reflect what you want for your icon color depth

ie- 16 for 16bit, 24 for 24bit, 32 for 32bit

You can also do the same at

HKEY_USERS.DefaultControl PanelDesktopWindowMetrics

which that is used for when booting the machine before you logon and also as a skeleton for creating a new user

Oh and also a reminder which is basically always said when involving the registry is always make a backup before changing settings incase something goes wrong you can do a rollback

Link to comment
Share on other sites

This topic is now closed to further replies.
  • Recently Browsing   0 members

    • No registered users viewing this page.