Re: GUI is all washed out, want Win2K / Office 2000 look and feel back
- From: "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" <MillyS@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 6 May 2007 12:20:03 -0700
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After furious head scratching, Unknown asked:
| You say side by side??? Separate them a bit to see if they improve..
| "LurfysMa" <invalid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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|| On Sun, 06 May 2007 08:35:32 -0700, LurfysMa
|| <invalid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
||
||| We just upgraded our computers from Win2K & Office 2000 to WinXP &
||| Office 2007. So far, this has been a very frustrating &
||| time-consuming experience.
|||
||| Of the many changes, the one I want to fix first is the contrast of
||| the menus. Everything looks washed out. My eyes aren't as good as
||| they once were and I can't tell where one window ends and the next
||| begins.
|||
||| I am posting this to both a WinXP ng and an Office ng because I
||| don;t know if this is an Office setting or an OS setting.
|||
||| I would like to go back to the Win2K/Office 2000 GUI look and feel
||| as much as possible -- at least until I get the conversion
||| completed and all of my data and programs migrated and tested.
|||
||| I would very much appreciate help on how to restore the old GUI.
|||
||| Thank you
||
|| PS: I should have mentioned that I did go to the Display applet in
|| the Control Panel and set the Appearance settings back to Windows
|| classic.
||
|| One of the reasons that I cannot decide if it's WinXP or Office 2007
|| is that the Windows Taskbar (at the bottom of the screen) is also all
|| washed out. I have these two machines running side-by-side. The
|| screen on the Win2K/Office2K system (a 6 year old PC) is sharp and
|| bright. The screen on the brand new PC running WinXP/Office 2007
|| (with a much better screen and high-end graphics card, is all washed
|| out and hard to read.
||
|| Could it be a monitor setting?
||
|| The setting tab shows it set to 1152 x 864 pixels (on a 17" LCD
|| monitor). The color quality is set to "highest (32 bit)".
||
|| Interestingly, on our other PC, the monitors are reversed. The brand
|| new 24" LCD is on the old PC and the old 16" LCD is on the new PC. On
|| that one, the colors on the old monitor are all washed out (it used
|| to be clear when it was running on the old machine) and the new
|| monitor is all washed out.
||
|| I am pretty sure that if I switched monitors, the washed out effect
|| would stay with the system and not follow the monitor.
||
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