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White Desktop
Friend of mine has Win98 (I have WinXP) and today his desktop is white,
rather than the usual blue/green. I checked the settings and it's set for the blue/green color. When you reboot, it starts out that color, but when it's all finished it turns white again. Any suggestions? |
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Where are you looking at the setting of blue/green?
Control Panel-Display-Appearance tab under the item: Desktop or Control Panel-Display-Background tab? If the latter is set to wallpaper (none) it should use the Desktop colour. ....Alan -- Alan Edwards, MS MVP W95/98 Systems http://dts-l.org/index.html In microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion, "Joy" wrote: Friend of mine has Win98 (I have WinXP) and today his desktop is white, rather than the usual blue/green. I checked the settings and it's set for the blue/green color. When you reboot, it starts out that color, but when it's all finished it turns white again. Any suggestions? |
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Where are you looking at the setting of blue/green?
Control Panel-Display-Appearance tab under the item: Desktop or Control Panel-Display-Background tab? If the latter is set to wallpaper (none) it should use the Desktop colour. ....Alan -- Alan Edwards, MS MVP W95/98 Systems http://dts-l.org/index.html In microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion, "Joy" wrote: Friend of mine has Win98 (I have WinXP) and today his desktop is white, rather than the usual blue/green. I checked the settings and it's set for the blue/green color. When you reboot, it starts out that color, but when it's all finished it turns white again. Any suggestions? |
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Try changing the Desktop background (wallpaper) to another, and then back again to
green, and see if it has any effect. Right-click the Desktop, and mouse over the menu that appears, to Active Desktop. Click to remove the check-mark from View As A Web Page, if it is checked. If it is not checked, try check-marking it and then un-checking it. If that does not help anything, do this: Restart in MS-DOS mode (StartShutdownRestart in MS-DOS Mode), and at the command prompt type the following, and press Enter after each line: smartdrv scanreg /fix When it completes and returns to the command prompt, type EXIT and press Enter to restart Windows, and see if the situation has returned to normal. -- Glen Ventura, MS MVP Shell/User, A+ http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm http://www.microsoft.com/communities...t/default.mspx "Joy" wrote in message ... Friend of mine has Win98 (I have WinXP) and today his desktop is white, rather than the usual blue/green. I checked the settings and it's set for the blue/green color. When you reboot, it starts out that color, but when it's all finished it turns white again. Any suggestions? |
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Alan and Glen,
Well, first of all I'm doing this in my XP (Classic); I'm away from my friend's Win98, so what I'm finding may be different. Alan, I wound up the same place as you are talking about, only I got there by Right clicking on the Desktop; choosing Properties; then the Desktop tab, then Color, and None. That was what we did on his computer and as I had said, after rebooting the right color was there and then it changed back to white when it was fully ready!? Glen, I think I recall that my friend didn't have any wallpaper selected. When I follow what you say, Right-click the Desktop, I don't get anything that says Active Desktop, nor do I see any place to View As A Web Page. Might this be because I have Classic? I can pass along to him the rest of your suggestions to try on his own. I don't know when I'll be able to get to his house again in the foreseeable future (I'm planning to go out of town soon). |
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If there is no wallpaper selected, then the background should be as Alan
stated...the same as the Desktop colour setting, on the Appearance tab of Display properties. As for the settings mentioned, such as right-clicking the Desktop Active Desktop View As a Web Page, you don't see them because they are not there on Windows XP. We are troubleshooting your friend's Win98 machine.....you can't expect to use those procedures or find all those settings on XP. :-) Active Desktop is always on in XP, so there is no menu item to turn it on or off. -- Glen Ventura, MS MVP Shell/User, A+ http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm http://www.microsoft.com/communities...t/default.mspx "Joy" wrote in message ... Alan and Glen, Well, first of all I'm doing this in my XP (Classic); I'm away from my friend's Win98, so what I'm finding may be different. Alan, I wound up the same place as you are talking about, only I got there by Right clicking on the Desktop; choosing Properties; then the Desktop tab, then Color, and None. That was what we did on his computer and as I had said, after rebooting the right color was there and then it changed back to white when it was fully ready!? Glen, I think I recall that my friend didn't have any wallpaper selected. When I follow what you say, Right-click the Desktop, I don't get anything that says Active Desktop, nor do I see any place to View As A Web Page. Might this be because I have Classic? I can pass along to him the rest of your suggestions to try on his own. I don't know when I'll be able to get to his house again in the foreseeable future (I'm planning to go out of town soon). |
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