How can I get rid of a pink color highlighting everything?

  • Thread starter Desparate in Nebraska
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Desparate in Nebraska

After presenting a power point presentation, the next time we turned on our
laptop everything was highlighted in pink. This includes the background of
screens in any application we are using. Email messages that we have opened
are pink, but emails in our inbox that we haven't opened are in the normal
black text on white background. We have tried everything we can think of to
get rid of this, but to no avail. Is this a hardware problem? What did we
do to cause this to happen?
 
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Deborah Jean

Go to your desktop, right click in a blank area click on properties and then
click on the apperance tab and make sure it says Windows XP style or Windows
style under Windows and buttons and that the color scheme is set to the
default of blue. If that doesn't work write back because it may be a deeper
issue.

Deborah Jean
MOS Master Instructor
 
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Desparate in Nebraska

Thank you for responding, but that didn't solve the problem either. In fact
we had already tried that (more than once). On the desktop, the background
is blue, but all the icons have little tinges or shadows of pink, and then
when you open up an application, it is pink. For instance, I am typing on a
pink background right now, and the letters are black with white shadows
(which are very hard to read). It looks the way things look when they are
highlighted. Any other suggestions?
 
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Echo S

I'd start with changing hardware acceleration.

See instrux at http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00129.htm

You might also need to change your color depth. It could be that your
computer configured itself to display better with whatever projector you
used, and it hasn't gone back to its default settings. (But everything pink
is pretty odd!)
 
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Echo S

Wow, that almost sounds like "high contrast." Start|Control
Panel|Accessibility Options. Make sure "use high contrast" isn't checked on
the Display tab. I can't find anything there with a pink background, but you
never know.
 
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Deborah Jean

Going in the same way click on the settings tab and make sure you are set at
least at 256 color. If this doesn't work and you have XP go into system
restore and restore to a date before you ran the powerpoint presentation.
What window's OS are you running. Before XP you would have to go into
Command Prompt only and type in at the C:\ prompt scanreg /restore and
restore it to a date before the PPT presentation. Hopefully you have XP...it
would make it so much easier. I've never heard of PPT doing this before and
I teach the subject. One last try. Right click on desktop in a blank area go
to Graphics Options-Graphics Properties click on the color tab and click on
Restore Defaults. If that doesn't help write back we'll try something else,
meanwhile I'll ask a few Network Engineers I know.

Deborah Jean.

Deborah Jean
 
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