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Colors and Font


Question Posted Monday July 11 2005, 8:01 pm

My little brother accidentally messed up the computuer, and in the process of fixing what my brother did, my dad messed up the colors and font. My dad was able to fix my brothers mistake, but we were unable to fix his. We've been looking through the control panel trying to switch the computer colors back to default and switching the theme, and I even removed the picture backround I had to switch the colors back but none of what we did seemed to be working. We have an e-machines computer if that makes a difference, I'm sure it does. The only thing we haven't done is shut down the computer then turned it back on. I'll try that later, but I was hoping that some of you computer experts might have any other suggestions, so do you? Thanks in advance!

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Additional info, added Tuesday July 12 2005, 3:45 pm:
Thanks to the people that answered, especially K', because his advice was the advice that worked the best!!.

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K3587 answered Monday July 11 2005, 8:26 pm:
My e-machines did this as well. Go to your Control Panel, then Display, then click on the Settings tab. Try changing your color to 16 or 24 bit, and restart.

I'm not sure how to solve your problem on XP, the way I solved it on ME. I completely restored my system.ini file, but it's not the same as the XP version is, I'm sure. My advice is to find someone else with XP, copy-paste everything in their system.ini file on their computer, e-mail it to yourself, then copy-paste what they have into your system.ini. Make sure you back yours up before you try this!

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CoRyIzMuHLoVeRaNdFrIeNd answered Monday July 11 2005, 8:24 pm:
You could set your computer back a day. Weve done that 2 my computer a couple of times and it works every time, you will lose stuff youve done in the past day, but its better than losing everything! If you need help with setting it back, leave a message in my inbox and i can get back to ya!

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Flap715JackHelper answered Monday July 11 2005, 8:14 pm:
Have you tried to bring it up to Best Buy and see if they can fix it?

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XKill_The_PainX answered Monday July 11 2005, 8:05 pm:
Hmm, did you try right clicking on your desktop and going to "active desktop", "customise my desktop" and then going to "appearance" and tweaking things a little bit?
That's just about my only guess...

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