| Title: | Microsoft Windows 95 ("Chicago") |
| Notice: | Please read topics 1 to 22 before writing anything |
| Moderator: | EEMELI::BACKSTROM |
| Created: | Mon Nov 14 1994 |
| Last Modified: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 2958 |
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Last week I spent several hours trying to rectify the following problem on my Father's PC without success... Any help would be appreciated. For reasons that we don't understand, his PC starts up (in Windows 95) using the "High Contrast Black (Large)" display appearance convention. Each time we would go thru the My Computer->...->Display->Appearance sequence and change it back to "Windows Standard". Hit Apply and OK and all is well until the next boot. At one point I even went into the Registry Editor and confirmed that "Windows Standard" was the current setting. Then, on the next boot *most* of the time W95 came up using High Contrast Black (Large) again, although a few times it did come up using Windows Standard. [There were a lot of re-boots because we were chasing an intermittant printer problem that was finally traced to a bad A-B switch.] As near as I can tell from checking various W95 books, setting the Display Appearance the way we did *should* be permanent -- but it sure isn't proving to be that way. Am I doing something wrong? What can/should I try now? Ron
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| 2823.1 | skylab.zko.dec.com::FISHER | Gravity: Not just a good idea. It's the law! | Mon Mar 03 1997 16:16 | 4 | |
I assume you are shutting down using the W95 shutdown procedure and not just pushing the reset button? Burns | |||||
| 2823.2 | Yup | GEMGRP::BRENDER | Ron Brender | Mon Mar 03 1997 17:16 | 4 |
>I assume you are shutting down using the W95 shutdown procedure and not just >pushing the reset button? Absolutely... | |||||
| 2823.3 | BBQ::WOODWARDC | ...but words can break my heart | Mon Mar 03 1997 20:49 | 10 | |
Hullo,
I had the same 'problem' - deliberately caused by myself when setting
up my Father in Law's machine. Go into the ControlPanel->
AccessibilityOptions and re-set any options there - they override (for
some reason) the Display->appearance settings.
hth,
H
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| 2823.4 | GEMGRP::BRENDER | Ron Brender | Tue Mar 04 1997 11:51 | 9 | |
OK, we'll give that a try. Thanks, Ron p.s. Perhaps he wandered into AccessibilityOptions when I wasn't looking -- I know I never even entered that folder. But Father has a tendency to poke around and sometimes gets himself in trouble without knowing what he did. "Kids" are like that... | |||||
| 2823.5 | BBQ::WOODWARDC | ...but words can break my heart | Sun Mar 09 1997 22:12 | 1 | |
yours too, huh? ;') | |||||
| 2823.6 | BSS::PROCTOR_R | Sniffing the floral arrangement | Mon Mar 10 1997 14:36 | 5 | |
add mine to the stack. 80 years old and just now trying to learn to run
a PC. Pretty funny to watch (except that I get to fix all the problems
that occur..)
*8)
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