Leo Palmer Posted April 13, 2013 Report Share Posted April 13, 2013 The plot thickens!Pic2Exe is installed and I am registered (with help from Igor). I declared the problem solved because the trial message had been removed and everything appeared to work. The fact that the background to the Pic2Exe "home page" was BLACK did not seem a problem. However when I try to build a project I find that the buttons such as Project Options, Customize Slide, Objects and Animation are a solid black and their titles cannot be seen. In Project Options the list of Main, Audio etc. down the LHS shows yellow titles on a grey background and is very difficult to read.That said if I remember what the various buttons are Pic2Exe appears to work.Can you hello please.ThanksLeo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davegee Posted April 13, 2013 Report Share Posted April 13, 2013 I don't remember seeing anything of this nature mentioned before?Raise another support ticket in case of it not being something simple which someone else can help with?Someone is bound to mention updating your Graphics Drivers.Do you have another PC that you can try it on to prove that it is the W8 PC and not something else?DG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leo Palmer Posted April 13, 2013 Author Report Share Posted April 13, 2013 I don't remember seeing anything of this nature mentioned before?Raise another support ticket in case of it not being something simple which someone else can help with?Someone is bound to mention updating your Graphics Drivers.Do you have another PC that you can try it on to prove that it is the W8 PC and not something else?DGHello DG,Thanks for responding.The laptop is a brand new HP. Everything works fine on my desktop. Windows 8 appears to be the culprit.Leo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davegee Posted April 13, 2013 Report Share Posted April 13, 2013 Does the Laptop have dedicated or shared graphics?DG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leo Palmer Posted April 13, 2013 Author Report Share Posted April 13, 2013 Does the Laptop have dedicated or shared graphics?DGDedicated as far as I know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leo Palmer Posted April 13, 2013 Author Report Share Posted April 13, 2013 DGProblem solved. The properties of the screen were introducing the colour change. I changed them back to normal and everything is now OK. Windows 8 is reprieved......for now!ThanksLeo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davegee Posted April 13, 2013 Report Share Posted April 13, 2013 How did you have it set?For future reference?DG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leo Palmer Posted April 13, 2013 Author Report Share Posted April 13, 2013 Dave,I downloaded "Classic Shell" software to restore my Windows desktop and Start Menu to something like normal. In the process, and I know not how it occurred, my appearance theme changed to High Contrast#1. This introduced the black background onto MS Word etc. Emails and the web pages ( I think it did it to web pages) and of course Pic2Exe. Right clicking on the windows desktop, then Personalize and setting appearance to Windows Classic theme restored things to normal.Thanks for your helpLeo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Cox Posted April 13, 2013 Report Share Posted April 13, 2013 seeHow to reset Internet Explorer settingshttp://support.microsoft.com/kb/923737on my xp system i had to do a lot of diddling to get things as the were before - colors, font's etcken Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leo Palmer Posted April 13, 2013 Author Report Share Posted April 13, 2013 seeHow to reset Internet Explorer settingshttp://support.microsoft.com/kb/923737on my xp system i had to do a lot of diddling to get things as the were before - colors, font's etckenThanks Ken,Leo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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