Re: Here's something COMPLETELY off the wall

["Eric Graeb" <eric_graeb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This is on NT4 but might Help.  The Registry Key HKey_Users\.Default\Control
Panel\Colors\ScrollBar should be "192 192 192".  I believe "128 128 128" is
the code for white.  If its not there check the same key under
HKey_Current_User.  Surprisingly it's really not that hard for a vb program
to screw something like this up.

Eric Graeb
AS/400 Administrator
King Optical Group Inc.


> 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
>