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Xp - White Edge Of The Desktop Icons

hazim
Jul 2 2007, 09:39 AM
it's an odd thing this white edge of the desktop icons; and also (i think it's a related thing) there exist a white highlight on the words of some programs' menu bar, but this became normal solely!!! and the white highlight still.
does anyone have an explanation?

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Jimmy89
Jul 2 2007, 10:44 AM
What is your colour quality? When my monitor is set on low (16 bit) i get white edges around the icons, but on higher (32 bit) its better!
hopefully this helps
-jimmy

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wutske
Jul 2 2007, 03:56 PM
the icons are just in bad quality. The white border you see should normaly be (semi-)transparent. It's also possible that windows can't handle the alpha-channel correctly, but that's the fault of the iconproducer.

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saint-michael
Jul 2 2007, 08:07 PM
It could be that the graphics card is damaged as well and whatever is supposed to be transparent is showing up as white; of course nothing showed up in searching for a reason as to why this would happen. However as I am looking at the desktop it almost seems your not even using XP OS but an older version, because those folder Icons are not the standard ones unless you changed them. If thats the case a suggestion would be to replace the icons or do a fresh installation of your Operating system.

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xboxrulz
Jul 2 2007, 08:54 PM
Also, please install the latest graphics driver from your graphics card manufacturer.

xboxrulz

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hazim
Jul 3 2007, 06:15 PM
jimmy found the solution. when i changed the color quality from 16 to 32 bit; it worked and the white edges disappeared
thank you jimmy, and thanks for all.

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