How to Disable Visual Themes?

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Chris Dove wrote:
> How do I disable visual themes in XP..
>
> I've tracked down a problem in IE to this and need to disable them.

If you just want to do this for IE, in Internet Explorer select Tools,
Internet Options and go to the Advanced tab. Under browsing remove the
check from "Enable visual styles from buttons and controls in web pages" and
click Apply.

If you want do disable visual themes for all of Windows, right click on the
desktop and select Properties. Go to the Appearance tab and change the
selection under Windows and buttons to Windows Classic style. Apply the
changes.
--
Tom Porterfield
MS-MVP Windows
http://support.telop.org

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Perfect.. Worked a treat..

I actually looked in the advanced tab, but obviously not hard enough!

Thanks Tom


"Tom Porterfield" <tpporter@mvps.org> wrote in message
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> Chris Dove wrote:
>> How do I disable visual themes in XP..
>>
>> I've tracked down a problem in IE to this and need to disable them.
>
> If you just want to do this for IE, in Internet Explorer select Tools,
> Internet Options and go to the Advanced tab. Under browsing remove the
> check from "Enable visual styles from buttons and controls in web pages"
> and click Apply.
>
> If you want do disable visual themes for all of Windows, right click on
> the desktop and select Properties. Go to the Appearance tab and change
> the selection under Windows and buttons to Windows Classic style. Apply
> the changes.
> --
> Tom Porterfield
> MS-MVP Windows
> http://support.telop.org
>
> Please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup only.