Colors flaky

In April I installed Microsoft Data Access Components (MDAC) 2.8 SP1 and
the KB911562 and KB912812 updates. Since then the colors displayed by
my browsers, both IE Explorer and Firefox, and also other programs (e.g.
Adaware) have been flaky, inconsistent. The appearance is what I have
been used to seeing when a browser page has not completely loaded.

Any suggestions for fixing the problem?

Tom

Mike
Mon May 15 21:07:22 CDT 2006

Check your video drivers and also that your colour depth/settings haven't
somehow changed.
--
Mike Maltby
mike.maltby@gmail.com


MrTom <NotMyAddress@comcast.net> wrote:

> In April I installed Microsoft Data Access Components (MDAC) 2.8 SP1
> and the KB911562 and KB912812 updates. Since then the colors
> displayed by my browsers, both IE Explorer and Firefox, and also
> other programs (e.g. Adaware) have been flaky, inconsistent. The
> appearance is what I have been used to seeing when a browser page has
> not completely loaded.
> Any suggestions for fixing the problem?
>
> Tom

MrTom
Mon May 15 22:51:55 CDT 2006

Mike,

Bingo. Color depth/settings was the problem. True Color(32 bit) works a
lot better than 256 colors. Thank you.

Tom

Mike M wrote:
> Check your video drivers and also that your colour depth/settings
> haven't somehow changed.

Mike
Tue May 16 04:53:16 CDT 2006

Tom,

I'm pleased to read that you found the cause of the problem. I sort of
thought that colour depth might be the problem from your description but
one never knows until one checks.

> True Color(32 bit) works a lot better than 256 colors

Indeed it does!

Cheers,
--
Mike Maltby
mike.maltby@gmail.com


MrTom <NotMyAddress@comcast.net> wrote:

> Mike,
>
> Bingo. Color depth/settings was the problem. True Color(32 bit)
> works a lot better than 256 colors. Thank you.