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Windows Xp, How To Re-enable Show All Possible Color

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Few days before, I have used the power toys to rebuild my system icons.After that, all icons showed on the screen only with 256 color.Prior Windows XP, Windows 2000 have an option on the display applet thatlet me show all possible colors.Hmm..., Is there any way to restore the ability ?Thanks,P.S. If I switched to another resolution. It is fine. But once back, it lower the color to 256.

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I once had this problem, but it happened for different reasons. Here's how I got around it...

 

On your desktop, right-click and choose Properties. Go to the Settings tab. Change your Screen resolution to the lowest resolution it can get (it's 800 by 600 pixels for me, but it might be 640 by 480 pixels for you). And then change your Color quality to the lowest quality it can get as well (16 bit on my computer, but it could be 256 colors on yours). Then click OK to apply these changes and restart your computer. After restarting, set the screen resolution and the color quality to their original values. Things should get back to normal.

 

To be honest, I remember reading that there was an easier way to do this, but I can't remember what it is or where I found it. But at least this method worked for me, and will hopefully work for you, too ;) Good luck.

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Also verify that the screen resolution that you are trying to get 32-bit colour on actually supports 32-bit colour. Some screen resolutions can only display 256 colours, while older monitors (from Windows 95/98) can sometimes only display 16 colours at the lowest resolution.

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colour ploblemsWindows Xp, How To Re-enable Show All Possible Color

I have just formated my pc..How can I get back the screen resolution that enable viewing images by picassa? my scrren resolution for now is 640 by 480..Can I upgrade ths resolution to 800 by 600 with 16 bits? how? 

-question by franzano

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