RE: Here's something COMPLETELY off the wall

["Andy Nolen-Parkhouse" <aparkhouse@xxxxxxxxx>]

Joe,

Have you tried switching to any of the other schemes and then switching
back to "windows standard"?  That may restore the defaults, unless you
went in and saved your changes as "windows standard".

Andy

> -----Original Message-----
> From: midrange-l-admin@midrange.com
[mailto:midrange-l-admin@midrange.com]
> On Behalf Of Joe Pluta
> Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 10:20 AM
> To: midrange-l@midrange.com
> Subject: Here's something COMPLETELY off the wall
>
> Anybody ever install software on their machine that wiped out the
color
> scheme?  I've got Windows 2000 Pro, SP2.  I installed a demo that
barfed;
> it
> tried to come up, didn't, and rebooted the computer.
>
> After the computer came up, I noticed that the colors were different
on
> things like scroll bars and menus.  I went into the control panel and
saw
> that I was still at "Windows Standard", but that my colors were
definitely
> different. For instance, menus were white rather than gray.
>
> I changed what I could, but some things are still screwed up.  For
> instance,
> the background of my scrollbars is white rather than a really light
gray,
> and there's no place to change that particular attribute.  You can
change
> the SIZE of the scrollbar, but not the color, at least on my machine.
>
> So, here are a few questions.
>
> 1. Anybody run into this before?
> 2. Where is Windows color scheme information stored?
> 3. Can you "restore" one of the preshipped schemes
>
> and finally
>
> 4. Can somebody tell me how to fix my colors?!?!?  <grin>
>
> Joe