Toolbar icons lost their resolution

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On Sat, 5 Feb 2005 23:41:04 -0800, Brian Bischof wrote:

> The icons in their toolbar lost their resolution. They are very blocky now.
> Don't know how it happened! I googled this and all I could find were people
> telling you how to make your icons smaller. This isn't my problem b/c they
> didn't change size at all. I went ahead and tried these ideas anyway
> (choosing Small Icons as well as going to Advanced Settings for the
> desktop). Nothing works. The weird thing is that some programs have icons in
> their dropdown menus and I just noticed that these resolution on these are
> bad also. Somehow there must be some type of setting which determines the
> icon resolution. Again, this is not a size problem - strictly resolution.
> Its like what happens when you look at a low resolution picture on zoom. The
> edges go from being smooth to being blocky.
>
> Any ideas?

Display> Settings: Is Color Quality set to 16- or 32-bit? Either one of
those should show the XP style icons (fuller resolution).

Also in the registry editor check the following key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\WindowMetrics
The value shown should be 16. Edit if necessary.

One more place to check is Display> Appearance Tab. Click the Advanced
button and choose Icon from the drop-down list. The default size is 32.

All changes should be immediate. If not, log off and then log back on
again.

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Sharon F
MS-MVP ~ Windows Shell/User