weird color scheme

[langleymass]

I got into the server room this morning and noticed that some type of security update had been forced on a Windows 2003 server. The system had rebooted. After that, the system came up with a really bizarre color scheme. Some program backgrounds went from white to black, some text went from black to green. As a result, the system is now pretty difficult to use.

How do I get my colors back?

 

[langleymass]

I have done a lot with it, but it is still quite strange.

 

[Seaspray0]

If it was a windows update, you can uninstall it. Goto the %windir% and make sure you can view everything (hidden, system). You'll see compressed folders like $NTUninstallKB4335532$ in the list. View by date and look for the ones that installed in the time frame in question. Start with the last one installed in that time frame and open the folder and then open the spuninst folder and run spuninst.exe. It will uninstall that update. Repeat for the second to the last one installed during that time frame, etc. Once you know which Service Pack caused the problem, you can look up the details on it at microsoft and see if they have any reference to the issue you had. They usually do make references to issues and what to do to fix it.

A+/MCP/MCSE/MCDBA

 

[markdmac]

I'd first verify the problem is not a bad monitor, monitor cable connection or bad video card.

I hope you find this post helpful.

Regards,

Mark

 

[langleymass]

Actually one person here in the office mentioned that he saw the problem elsewhere. The problem is directly related to the security update. I went through "add/remove programs" and found the security update by date. Then I removed it and rebooted. Everything was fine.

Ultimately, that should have been the first place to go. But I was hoping we could keep the security update and get the colors back.

Has anyone seen a case like this? A security update completely messed up the color scheme. Incidentally, the update also made my login screen fatter and changed some fonts. It really looked strange.

I also turned off automatic updates.

 

[REstabrook]

Which security update was it?

 

[langleymass]

I can not remember the number of it at this point. It may just have been a thing here at Dell.

 

[fs483]

Maybe it was a hardware driver update and not a windows security update ! I tend to ignore the hardware device driver updates. It it ain't broke, don't attemp to fix it. Security updates on the other hand are totally different thing.

 

[SgtBeavis]

Here are the default colors:


Key Name: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Colors
Class Name: <NO CLASS>
Last Write Time: 8/10/2005 - 9:21 AM
Value 0
Name: ActiveBorder
Type: REG_SZ
Data: 212 208 200

Value 1
Name: ActiveTitle
Type: REG_SZ
Data: 10 36 106

Value 2
Name: AppWorkSpace
Type: REG_SZ
Data: 128 128 128

Value 3
Name: Background
Type: REG_SZ
Data: 0 0 0

Value 4
Name: ButtonAlternateFace
Type: REG_SZ
Data: 181 181 181

Value 5
Name: ButtonDkShadow
Type: REG_SZ
Data: 64 64 64

Value 6
Name: ButtonFace
Type: REG_SZ
Data: 212 208 200

Value 7
Name: ButtonHilight
Type: REG_SZ
Data: 255 255 255

Value 8
Name: ButtonLight
Type: REG_SZ
Data: 212 208 200

Value 9
Name: ButtonShadow
Type: REG_SZ
Data: 128 128 128

Value 10
Name: ButtonText
Type: REG_SZ
Data: 0 0 0

Value 11
Name: GradientActiveTitle
Type: REG_SZ
Data: 166 202 240

Value 12
Name: GradientInactiveTitle
Type: REG_SZ
Data: 192 192 192

Value 13
Name: GrayText
Type: REG_SZ
Data: 128 128 128

Value 14
Name: Hilight
Type: REG_SZ
Data: 10 36 106

Value 15
Name: HilightText
Type: REG_SZ
Data: 255 255 255

Value 16
Name: HotTrackingColor
Type: REG_SZ
Data: 0 0 128

Value 17
Name: InactiveBorder
Type: REG_SZ
Data: 212 208 200

Value 18
Name: InactiveTitle
Type: REG_SZ
Data: 128 128 128

Value 19
Name: InactiveTitleText
Type: REG_SZ
Data: 212 208 200

Value 20
Name: InfoText
Type: REG_SZ
Data: 0 0 0

Value 21
Name: InfoWindow
Type: REG_SZ
Data: 255 255 225

Value 22
Name: Menu
Type: REG_SZ
Data: 212 208 200

Value 23
Name: MenuText
Type: REG_SZ
Data: 0 0 0

Value 24
Name: Scrollbar
Type: REG_SZ
Data: 212 208 200

Value 25
Name: TitleText
Type: REG_SZ
Data: 255 255 255

Value 26
Name: Window
Type: REG_SZ
Data: 255 255 255

Value 27
Name: WindowFrame
Type: REG_SZ
Data: 0 0 0

Value 28
Name: WindowText
Type: REG_SZ
Data: 0 0 0

Value 29
Name: MenuHilight
Type: REG_SZ
Data: 49 106 197

Value 30
Name: MenuBar
Type: REG_SZ
Data: 236 233 216




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