Wrong colour on desktop
My computer crashed (ouch!) so I reloaded XP then while replacing my desktop settings must have clicked on some elusive weird button and now I only have a black screen with icons.
If I right click to try and restore the settings I can’t see anything because it’s all black but I know the screen has changed because the icons have.
What did I do and can I undo it. I have reloaded XP in the hope that it will restore the default settings but it comes up the same. Thank you so much. Kind regards, Alanna
The problem, Alanna, seems to be the color scheme you’ve chosen. It sounds like you have to reset your desktop to the default Windows XP scheme.
To do this, click Start, Settings, Control Panel. In the Control Panel choose Appearence and Themes and then Change the Computer’s theme.
In the Themes tabs, click on the drop down box and choose the Windows XP option. Click OK and that should clear the problem.
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September 29th, 2008 at 7:23 am
Thank you but I can’t go to the control panel because I can’t see it! I can only see icons and no text. I can see the start icon but once I have clicked on that I have 2 columns of icons. Whatever I click on I see plenty of icons but no text to then selct and change any settings……… I have been working on this for hours over many days trying to re set my defaults. Any further suggestions would be wonderful. Thank you so much.
September 29th, 2008 at 7:31 am
OK……….. I have finally sat with my lap top and mimicked the sequence using the up, down and enter keys to get it sorted. I had tried this before but I am running XP on the desktop (which is the one with the problem) and have Vist on the laptop and so the sequence and icons are differnt but I have actually just fluked it! thanks for the forum. Kind Regards……………..