Why Taskbar Reverts To Grey Colour At Every Startup?
May 27, 2010
These past couple of days I have noticed that my PC has slow down considerably and everytime my PC is turned on or rebooted, the taskbar would change to a dull boxy grey colour. When I look into the display properties and all the themes have disappeared! I have googled and tried all avenue on the internet to fix this but with no luck. Can someone please help me? Do I have some virus on my PC or something? I have Windows XP on my desktop.
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May 29, 2007
I've been using the same old grey colour since Win95 and would like a different colour. What's the best way of going about it? I've just installed the XP Zune theme from Microsoft from here: go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=75078 and it looks pretty good but does it use up more memory or CPU time than the classic theme?
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I've a DEll 2350 which recently has new hard drive installed, and which functions very well 90% of the time with Win XP. WHen it ceases to function properly, the screen goes dead for an instant, and a full page of instruction appears indicating that I have 29 seconds toopt for a choice of re starts..including "last good working start up".. or safe mode or" allow the 29 seconds to elapse" and, "wait and see" ( my words)
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