Re: Disabled Effect Options
From: Dekaritae (alexmaur-_at_-yahoo-.com)
Date: 03/28/04
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Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2004 08:47:22 GMT
Dekaritae <alexmaur-@-yahoo-.com> wrote in
news:Xns94BA64B4E871dekaritae@63.223.5.95:
> In "Display Properties", under the "Advanced" tab, "Effects" button,
> there are a set of checkboxes. The checkboxes and listbox for
> 'transition effects' and 'hide underline letters' are disabled (greyed
> out), and I don't know why. Does anyone know what would cause this to
> happen?
>
> I can manually set the values for these with the UserPreferencesMask
> key in "HKCU/Control Panel/Desktop", but this only lasts for a few
> reboots before the options are reset.
>
> http://maur.shellscape.org/screenshots/disabledboxes.jpg
>
>
Ah, I just found a partial fix on a site I saw mentioned here.
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm
The registry import on line 256, right-hand side applies to this problem.
Merging it enables the bottom disabled checkbox, but not the top box or
list.
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