Windoz 2000 problem

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Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2008 3:22 pm

I got a new puter at work, and most annoyingly all symbols in the symbols bar at the top are in gray-scale till I cruse over them with the mouse or activate them otherwise. with the exception of Firefox this happens in all programs.
How can I get them to be in colours all the time?

Baiting Guru Joined: 19 Apr 2007 Posts: 3123

A NEW computer?

Holy f**k Surprised

Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2008 3:56 pm

any chance of a screen capture so we can see what you mean exactly what's happening?

Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2008 4:03 pm

on my '98
desktop-- right click -- properties -- appearance-- Item-- then inactive/active window border or inactive/active title bar and change the settings to what you like
good luck

Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2008 4:26 pm

craig007 wrote:

A NEW computer?

well, actually just one I haven't used b4.

wokabo wrote:

any chance of a screen capture so we can see what you mean exactly what's happening?

no, apparently they haven't installed this function. I'll try to get a screen capture at home.

@bill2
this only gives me the general colour scheme but not icons in the symbols bar with colors

Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2008 4:54 pm

But this is Billie G's pride, all parts can be personalized, I'll start up my old box and see if.... I'll report here

Edit;
Can't find any other way to change those setting, should be somewhere in that properties menu.

Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2008 2:38 am

bill2 wrote:

on my '98
desktop-- right click -- properties -- appearance-- Item-- then inactive/active window border or inactive/active title bar and change the settings to what you like
good luck

Right, except I'd simply try to set everything back to a windows default setting in there. There is no telling what 'tweaks' the previous user made

Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2008 4:10 am

Sounds like a video driver problem. Get the newest drivers from the manuf. web site and update them. You could try to reduce the color depth and see if that changes your problem. If it improves then it is for sure the drivers. What it looks like could define where the problem is. Could be a memory size problem or a leakage problem. I have seen this once in a while after doing something that affects the memory. It usually clears up on a reboot, for me. Windoz OS (at least the older OSs) are notorious for memory leaks.