yes I did a restore and it was to a month prior, it still does it. From: Cathy.Evans@xxxxxxxxx Reply-To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [mso] Re: (no subject) Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 13:09:51 -0500 Have you tried a system restore back to a previous date you know was good? XP restores are pretty good and have helped me in certain cases. Start menu/help and support, click the 'system restore' link. "Jeanne Lake" <iluvhltrhorses@msn To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx .com> Sent by: cc: mso-bounce@freelist s.org Subject: [mso] Re: (no subject) 12/23/2004 12:31 PM Please respond to ..... mso OK this is what I have done so far; Right Click, on desktop and went to properties, I have reset Themes to Win XP, Desktop to (none), ScreenSaver (none), Appearance to Windows Classic Style, and Settings to 800 x 600, and 16 bit as it was 32 bit. We did not have any Themes downloaded or used, all he did was change the color and desktop to a windows a Windows XP picture on the computer. I have checked MY COMPUTER, display properties they still appear the same after changed. I have checked Accessibilty settings and under display I have unchecked High Contrast and then rechecked it with no changes. It appears this way with all programs and internet sites, it was not this way a week ago when he was playing on it. He is not a young kid but a 17 year old, and he swears he only changed the desktop properties so that the adobe house XP picture came up and changed the display properties to Teal settings. I have unplugged and reattached all the monitor and other plugs, oh and I also put another monitor from another computer on it, it did the plug and play and located the driver for it and still gave me the same thing. I am not a genious with these things but I have been using one for along time at work and internet at home and this is the first I have had this problem. My sons vo-tech teacher is stumped also. Is this possibly a video card issue? The computer is about 11 months old, but I see all the other colors when people email me pictures and all, it is just going to web sites and on word background that is the problem. OH, I cant set background colors in EXCEL either or powerpoint, but I can set font colors in each of them. I have not loaded or downloaded any new programs in the past few months, and I have a firewall program along with Ad-aware / Spybot / Norton 2004, I have MS Office professional pkg, and my Kodak digital camera programs. What else can I tell you... From: "Green" <1z@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reply-To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To: <mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: [mso] Re: (no subject) Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 15:59:36 +0100 Jeanne, If you are getting this in more than one application it could be monitor settings. Are the desktop icons the same size as they were before this started and are they in the same place? To alter the monitor settings... get the desktop showing and right click somewhere.. *not* on an icon or the status bar or anything but on the desktop itself. You can then go through the settings and "play" with them. I suggest you first check the monitor resolution and number of colours settings on the far right tab. Alter them and see what happens. You probably want the highest colour and resolution settings. It could also be that a "theme" has been set so click through the tabs and unset it... and you can set the colours for windows and so on too. Let us all know what happens please. HTH Lisa > YES i DOUBLE CHECKED THEM JUST NOW AND REATTACHED EACH ONE. > I AM ON WINXP. > > I am just frustrated, I have searched all through the XP > boox, went last > night and bought another manual from wal-mart on XP and > still cant find > anything to change this back. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain proprietary, business-confidential and/or privileged material. If you are not the intended recipient of this message you are hereby notified that any use, review, retransmission, dissemination, distribution, reproduction or any action taken in reliance upon this message is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. 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