i have my color settings to True color 24 bit and 800x600 res, all of my icons look like im in safe mod
what can i do to make them look normal?

On Tue, 11 May 2004 16:06:02 -0700, Gmafgamer
<anonymous> wrote...

| i have my color settings to True color 24 bit and 800x600 res, all of my icons look
| like im in safe mode what can i do to make them look normal?

First thing: right-click the desktop background, choose Properties,
then go to the Effects tab. Make sure that the "Show desktop icons
using all possible colors" option is checkmarked. That may be all that
it takes to get your icons back to normal.

If not: you might also try increasing the cache size, and purging it
of old and corrupted icons. You can do this with the free ActivIcons
utility from
http://www.simtel.net/product.downlo...s.php?id=58875

To do this in ActivIcons, go to its "Desktop Controls" screen and
increase the icon cache size to at least 2048. Next, rebuild the icon
cache. The options for rebuilding the cache are on 2 small round
buttons at the lower/right corner. Shut down any programs running in
the background, then click the round button farthest to the
lower/right corner (your system will reboot, and the icon cache will
be cleaned out).

Finally: if you prefer to do the same thing manually, you'll first
have to run Regedit. Then navigate down through the tree to the
following key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\explorer
Here, you will then need to create a new string value named "Max
Cached Icons" with the value data set to 2048 or 4096. Then save and
exit. Next, reboot into MSDOS, and delete the ShellIconcache file from
there (corrupted icons just get written back into the file if you
delete this manually while Windows is running). Be careful while in
Regedit, since it is possible to make a royal mess of your Registry
(it would be a good idea to have a recent backup before messing with
these settings).





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