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    16Jul2008

    TweakUI + Win2k3 + icons change to 256 colors

    DateWednesday, July 16, 2008 at 10:58PM

    I used TweakUI to see if I could fix some icon corruption, only prob, it didn't and changed all desktop icons to 256 colours.

    I lost the link for this solution...

    [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\WindowMetrics]

    "Shell Icon BPP"="32"

    those two registry keys were set to 32. When you reset them to 16, it will look normal. The reason is that when the icon bpp is set to 32, they only look good under a 32 bit color display (24 or 16 looks crappy). When set to 16 bpp, they will look good under 32, 24, or 16.

    Doing this, I was able to get my Win2k3 desktop icons back to 16bit colour depth. Don't you just love playing windows!

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