How to Disable Visual Themes?

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How do I disable visual themes in XP..

I've tracked down a problem in IE to this and need to disable them.

TIA

Chris

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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
>
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