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Trouble retaining high colour icons
I seem to be having trouble retaining high colour rendition of my icons. My
desktop settings are for 32 bit colour and my desktop wallpaper & program windows are rendered correctly but my icons are frequently downgraded to 256 colour renditions ( very poor if not 256 colour) which are quite hard to see. Does someone understand where this icon colour rendition is controlled from and how I can stop it from changing to low colour rendition? Thanks in advance for your attention and help. |
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Trouble retaining high colour icons
"Warren" wrote in message
... I seem to be having trouble retaining high colour rendition of my icons. My desktop settings are for 32 bit colour and my desktop wallpaper & program windows are rendered correctly but my icons are frequently downgraded to 256 colour renditions ( very poor if not 256 colour) which are quite hard to see. Since upgrading your OS, have you also checked for updated drivers for the video card and/or monitor? -- Don Phillipson Carlsbad Springs (Ottawa, Canada) |
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Trouble retaining high colour icons
http://support.microsoft.com/default...;en-us;Q133733
Icons Displayed Incorrectly in Control Panel The icon cache may be corrupt. Delete it, & let it regenerate. Shelliconcache is a hidden file. (1) "START, Settings, Folder Options, View tab, bolt 'Show all files'". Also, UNcheck "Hide file extensions for known file types". (2) Boot to Safe Mode (hold F5 as you boot). (3) "START, Find, F/F, Shelliconcache". R-Clk it & select "Delete". Reboot to Normal Mode. http://support.microsoft.com/default...;EN-US;q132668 Icons Randomly Change to Different Icons This is how to increase the ShellIconCache size. It may go as high as 4096. (Well, some say 8192.) It has cured, for me, a sluggishness of the drawing of icons, inside Explorer & My Documents (the small ones to left of file names). HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\explorer Max Cached Icons 2048 (String value) 1. START; Run; Type "RegEdit" & Enter 2. Click the plus (+) signs in the left pane starting at "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE" & ending at "CurrentVersion". 3. Finally, click the key "explorer" in the left pane (not it's plus sign). 4. In the right pane, R-Clk an empty area; point to "new"; select "string value"; type or paste "Max Cached Icons" & Enter. 5. R-Clk "Max Cached Icons"; select "Modify"; enter "2048" & click OK. 6. Close RegEdit & reboot. -- Thanks or Good Luck, There may be humor in this post, and, Naturally, you will not sue, should things get worse after this, PCR "Warren" wrote in message ... | I seem to be having trouble retaining high colour rendition of my icons. My | desktop settings are for 32 bit colour and my desktop wallpaper & program | windows are rendered correctly but my icons are frequently downgraded to 256 | colour renditions ( very poor if not 256 colour) which are quite hard to | see. | | Does someone understand where this icon colour rendition is controlled from | and how I can stop it from changing to low colour rendition? | | Thanks in advance for your attention and help. | | | |
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Trouble retaining high colour icons
Thank you very much PCR.
I tried the registry edit because it seemed the more likely of the two options to resolve the problem and it worked perfectly. I also liked your comment about drawing icons faster, because it gets to be rather annoying waiting for them to complete showing up sometimes. Excellent fix, and thank you very much, once again. I'm going to store a copy of your e-mail away for safe keeping. "PCR" wrote in message ... http://support.microsoft.com/default...;en-us;Q133733 Icons Displayed Incorrectly in Control Panel The icon cache may be corrupt. Delete it, & let it regenerate. Shelliconcache is a hidden file. (1) "START, Settings, Folder Options, View tab, bolt 'Show all files'". Also, UNcheck "Hide file extensions for known file types". (2) Boot to Safe Mode (hold F5 as you boot). (3) "START, Find, F/F, Shelliconcache". R-Clk it & select "Delete". Reboot to Normal Mode. http://support.microsoft.com/default...;EN-US;q132668 Icons Randomly Change to Different Icons This is how to increase the ShellIconCache size. It may go as high as 4096. (Well, some say 8192.) It has cured, for me, a sluggishness of the drawing of icons, inside Explorer & My Documents (the small ones to left of file names). HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\explorer Max Cached Icons 2048 (String value) 1. START; Run; Type "RegEdit" & Enter 2. Click the plus (+) signs in the left pane starting at "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE" & ending at "CurrentVersion". 3. Finally, click the key "explorer" in the left pane (not it's plus sign). 4. In the right pane, R-Clk an empty area; point to "new"; select "string value"; type or paste "Max Cached Icons" & Enter. 5. R-Clk "Max Cached Icons"; select "Modify"; enter "2048" & click OK. 6. Close RegEdit & reboot. -- Thanks or Good Luck, There may be humor in this post, and, Naturally, you will not sue, should things get worse after this, PCR "Warren" wrote in message ... | I seem to be having trouble retaining high colour rendition of my icons. My | desktop settings are for 32 bit colour and my desktop wallpaper & program | windows are rendered correctly but my icons are frequently downgraded to 256 | colour renditions ( very poor if not 256 colour) which are quite hard to | see. | | Does someone understand where this icon colour rendition is controlled from | and how I can stop it from changing to low colour rendition? | | Thanks in advance for your attention and help. | | | |
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I may have spoken too soon, the problem went away but then came back
eventually. I tried deleting ShellIconCache in safe mode but "F/F" doesn't find it. I shutdown into DOS and found it listed as SHELLI~1 but the "del" command won't touch it. I also tried the "Rebuild Icons" command in Tweakui, but that didn't fix it either. I also tried increasing the Registry value of Max Cached Icons to 4096, but that did nothing to fix the situation. Any other suggestions? "PCR" wrote in message ... http://support.microsoft.com/default...;en-us;Q133733 Icons Displayed Incorrectly in Control Panel The icon cache may be corrupt. Delete it, & let it regenerate. Shelliconcache is a hidden file. (1) "START, Settings, Folder Options, View tab, bolt 'Show all files'". Also, UNcheck "Hide file extensions for known file types". (2) Boot to Safe Mode (hold F5 as you boot). (3) "START, Find, F/F, Shelliconcache". R-Clk it & select "Delete". Reboot to Normal Mode. http://support.microsoft.com/default...;EN-US;q132668 Icons Randomly Change to Different Icons This is how to increase the ShellIconCache size. It may go as high as 4096. (Well, some say 8192.) It has cured, for me, a sluggishness of the drawing of icons, inside Explorer & My Documents (the small ones to left of file names). HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\explorer Max Cached Icons 2048 (String value) 1. START; Run; Type "RegEdit" & Enter 2. Click the plus (+) signs in the left pane starting at "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE" & ending at "CurrentVersion". 3. Finally, click the key "explorer" in the left pane (not it's plus sign). 4. In the right pane, R-Clk an empty area; point to "new"; select "string value"; type or paste "Max Cached Icons" & Enter. 5. R-Clk "Max Cached Icons"; select "Modify"; enter "2048" & click OK. 6. Close RegEdit & reboot. -- Thanks or Good Luck, There may be humor in this post, and, Naturally, you will not sue, should things get worse after this, PCR "Warren" wrote in message ... | I seem to be having trouble retaining high colour rendition of my icons. My | desktop settings are for 32 bit colour and my desktop wallpaper & program | windows are rendered correctly but my icons are frequently downgraded to 256 | colour renditions ( very poor if not 256 colour) which are quite hard to | see. | | Does someone understand where this icon colour rendition is controlled from | and how I can stop it from changing to low colour rendition? | | Thanks in advance for your attention and help. | | | |
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Try that Safe Mode delete once more. Did you "Show all files" in Folder
Options? There is something weird about that file, that it takes TWO reboots to do anything with it. (But Safe Mode was suposed to solve that.) Also... this doesn't seem to be a perfect fit, but check that "NoSaveSettings" is not set to 1... http://support.microsoft.com/default...;EN-US;q130234 Save Settings On Exit Option Enabled by Default ....Quote............. ....snip... Setting the NoSaveSettings field to 1 prevents your settings from being saved. When you set this value, the following items are not saved when you exit Windows: Changed icon positions on the desktop. Windows that are open when you exit. The size and position of the taskbar. ....End quote....... -- Thanks or Good Luck, There may be humor in this post, and, Naturally, you will not sue, should things get worse after this, PCR "Warren" wrote in message ... | I may have spoken too soon, the problem went away but then came back | eventually. I tried deleting ShellIconCache in safe mode but "F/F" doesn't | find it. I shutdown into DOS and found it listed as SHELLI~1 but the "del" | command won't touch it. I also tried the "Rebuild Icons" command in | Tweakui, but that didn't fix it either. I also tried increasing the | Registry value of Max Cached Icons to 4096, but that did nothing to fix the | situation. | | Any other suggestions? | | "PCR" wrote in message | ... | http://support.microsoft.com/default...;en-us;Q133733 | Icons Displayed Incorrectly in Control Panel | | The icon cache may be corrupt. Delete it, & let it regenerate. | Shelliconcache is a hidden file. | | (1) "START, Settings, Folder Options, View tab, bolt 'Show all files'". | Also, UNcheck "Hide file extensions for known file types". | (2) Boot to Safe Mode (hold F5 as you boot). | (3) "START, Find, F/F, Shelliconcache". R-Clk it & select "Delete". | Reboot to Normal Mode. | | http://support.microsoft.com/default...;EN-US;q132668 | Icons Randomly Change to Different Icons | | This is how to increase the ShellIconCache size. It may go as high as | 4096. (Well, some say 8192.) It has cured, for me, a sluggishness of the | drawing of icons, inside Explorer & My Documents (the small ones to left | of file names). | | HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\explorer | Max Cached Icons 2048 (String value) | | 1. START; Run; Type "RegEdit" & Enter | 2. Click the plus (+) signs in the left pane starting at | "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE" & ending at "CurrentVersion". | 3. Finally, click the key "explorer" in the left pane (not it's plus | sign). | 4. In the right pane, R-Clk an empty area; point to "new"; select | "string value"; type or paste "Max Cached Icons" & Enter. | 5. R-Clk "Max Cached Icons"; select "Modify"; enter "2048" & click OK. | 6. Close RegEdit & reboot. | | | -- | Thanks or Good Luck, | There may be humor in this post, and, | Naturally, you will not sue, | should things get worse after this, | PCR | | "Warren" wrote in message | ... | | I seem to be having trouble retaining high colour rendition of my | icons. My | | desktop settings are for 32 bit colour and my desktop wallpaper & | program | | windows are rendered correctly but my icons are frequently downgraded | to 256 | | colour renditions ( very poor if not 256 colour) which are quite hard | to | | see. | | | | Does someone understand where this icon colour rendition is controlled | from | | and how I can stop it from changing to low colour rendition? | | | | Thanks in advance for your attention and help. | | | | | | | | | | |
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Trouble retaining high colour icons
I see the article doesn't spell it out...
"START button, Run, RegEdit", & navigate to... HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Policies\Exp lorer That is, (a) Click plus signs, beginning at "HKEY_CURRENT_USER" & ending with "Policies". (b) Click "Explorer" in the left pane, & look in the right pane. (c) R-Clk "NoSaveSettings", if there, in the R-pane, & select "Modify". (d) Change it to zeroes: 00 00 00 00. (Use delete key.) (e) Exit, & it may be necessary to reboot. WARNING: Do not get carried away in the Registry. It is very important to the proper functioning of Windows. Muss it badly, & you must boot to DOS & "Scanreg /Restore". Then, choose the date of the last successful boot from the five offered. The rest of this is just informational... ......Start of Other things that may be done there....... Right-click the right pane and select New, Binary Value, & name it: NoClose To disable Shut Down. NoFavoritesMenu To remove Favorites. NoFileMenu To remove the File Menu in Explorer. NoFind To remove Find. NoLogOff To remove Log Off. NoRecentDocsHistory To disable the Documents compilation process. NoRecentDocsMenu To remove Documents. NoRun To remove Run. NoSaveSettings To prevent some few settings getting saved to the Registry. NoSetFolders To disable Control Panel and Printer folders. NoTrayContextMenu To disable Taskbar context menu. NoViewContextMenu To disable (all?) context menus. Double-click the new entry, select modify, and add this value: 01 00 00 00. To reverse the action, change the value to: 00 00 00 00 .......End of Other things that may be done there....... -- Thanks or Good Luck, There may be humor in this post, and, Naturally, you will not sue, should things get worse after this, PCR "PCR" wrote in message ... | Try that Safe Mode delete once more. Did you "Show all files" in Folder | Options? There is something weird about that file, that it takes TWO | reboots to do anything with it. (But Safe Mode was suposed to solve | that.) | | Also... this doesn't seem to be a perfect fit, but check that | "NoSaveSettings" is not set to 1... | | http://support.microsoft.com/default...;EN-US;q130234 | Save Settings On Exit Option Enabled by Default | ...Quote............. | ...snip... | Setting the NoSaveSettings field to 1 prevents your settings from being | saved. When you set this value, the following items are not saved when | you exit Windows: | | Changed icon positions on the desktop. | Windows that are open when you exit. | The size and position of the taskbar. | ...End quote....... | | | -- | Thanks or Good Luck, | There may be humor in this post, and, | Naturally, you will not sue, | should things get worse after this, | PCR | | "Warren" wrote in message | ... | | I may have spoken too soon, the problem went away but then came back | | eventually. I tried deleting ShellIconCache in safe mode but "F/F" | doesn't | | find it. I shutdown into DOS and found it listed as SHELLI~1 but the | "del" | | command won't touch it. I also tried the "Rebuild Icons" command in | | Tweakui, but that didn't fix it either. I also tried increasing the | | Registry value of Max Cached Icons to 4096, but that did nothing to | fix the | | situation. | | | | Any other suggestions? | | | | "PCR" wrote in message | | ... | | http://support.microsoft.com/default...;en-us;Q133733 | | Icons Displayed Incorrectly in Control Panel | | | | The icon cache may be corrupt. Delete it, & let it regenerate. | | Shelliconcache is a hidden file. | | | | (1) "START, Settings, Folder Options, View tab, bolt 'Show all | files'". | | Also, UNcheck "Hide file extensions for known file types". | | (2) Boot to Safe Mode (hold F5 as you boot). | | (3) "START, Find, F/F, Shelliconcache". R-Clk it & select "Delete". | | Reboot to Normal Mode. | | | | http://support.microsoft.com/default...;EN-US;q132668 | | Icons Randomly Change to Different Icons | | | | This is how to increase the ShellIconCache size. It may go as high | as | | 4096. (Well, some say 8192.) It has cured, for me, a sluggishness of | the | | drawing of icons, inside Explorer & My Documents (the small ones to | left | | of file names). | | | | | HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\explorer | | Max Cached Icons 2048 (String value) | | | | 1. START; Run; Type "RegEdit" & Enter | | 2. Click the plus (+) signs in the left pane starting at | | "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE" & ending at "CurrentVersion". | | 3. Finally, click the key "explorer" in the left pane (not it's plus | | sign). | | 4. In the right pane, R-Clk an empty area; point to "new"; select | | "string value"; type or paste "Max Cached Icons" & Enter. | | 5. R-Clk "Max Cached Icons"; select "Modify"; enter "2048" & click | OK. | | 6. Close RegEdit & reboot. | | | | | | -- | | Thanks or Good Luck, | | There may be humor in this post, and, | | Naturally, you will not sue, | | should things get worse after this, | | PCR | | | | "Warren" wrote in message | | ... | | | I seem to be having trouble retaining high colour rendition of my | | icons. My | | | desktop settings are for 32 bit colour and my desktop wallpaper & | | program | | | windows are rendered correctly but my icons are frequently | downgraded | | to 256 | | | colour renditions ( very poor if not 256 colour) which are quite | hard | | to | | | see. | | | | | | Does someone understand where this icon colour rendition is | controlled | | from | | | and how I can stop it from changing to low colour rendition? | | | | | | Thanks in advance for your attention and help. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
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