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keith mcleod

my taskbar color went to gray from blue, after running adaware, how can i
turn it back to blue, and how can this happen? i got windows xp home.
thanks
 
keith said:
my taskbar color went to gray from blue, after running adaware, how
can i turn it back to blue, and how can this happen? i got windows xp
home. thanks
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I've never seen this happen from using Ad-aware (you *were* using
Lavasoft's Ad-aware and not some rogue antispyware app, yes?). Did you
have a third-party theming application that might not have been clean
and Ad-aware removed it? That still seems rather unlikely to me.

Change the color from the silver back to blue in the Display applet.

Malke
 
Hi Keith,

For Windows XP the colors are set by *.themes files. To change the
active-title-bar color, make a copy of
C:\Windows\Resources\Themes\Windows Classic.theme to for example
new.theme, change some settings in it, delete or change the name in
that file ([email protected],-2016)

To copy Windows Classic.theme without the name in it use:
------- on 1 line ! ---------
TYPE "C:\Windows\Resources\Themes\Windows Classic.theme" | FIND/I /V
"DisplayName" >C:\Windows\Resources\Themes\new.theme
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Finally activate it with a small VBS which can be made from a bach
file using:
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settheme.vbs echo set shell=createobject("wscript.shell")
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start/w settheme.vbs
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Color changes in the registry are not automaticly updated and will
show up after reboot. To do that from a bachfile use:
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$SetColor.reg echo Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
$SetColor.reg echo [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Colors]
$SetColor.reg echo "ButtonFace"="172 32 32"
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start/w REGEDIT /S $SetColor.reg
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full Windows XP classic color-list:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Colors]
"ActiveBorder"="212 208 200"
"ActiveTitle"="10 36 106"
"AppWorkSpace"="128 128 128"
"Background"="58 110 165"
"ButtonAlternateFace"="181 181 181"
"ButtonDkShadow"="64 64 64"

Rgds,
Raghu Boddu
MS MVP - Win client
 
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