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Q129177: 500 Nations: Wallpaper Images Washed-out or Discolored

Article: Q129177
Product(s): Microsoft Home Multimedia Titles
Version(s): WINDOWS:1.0
Operating System(s): 
Keyword(s): win31kbfaq
Last Modified: 21-OCT-2000

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The information in this article applies to:

- Microsoft 500 Nations, version 1.0, on platform(s):
   - the operating system: Microsoft Windows NT, on platform(s):
      - the operating system: Microsoft Windows 
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SUMMARY
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The Microsoft 500 Nations Picture Gallery allows you to select images for use as
Windows wallpaper. At times, this wallpaper may looked washed out or discolored.
However, clicking the wallpaper or desktop redraws the image and normalizes the
colors.

MORE INFORMATION
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You may find applications can require their own set of 256 colors when you use a
256 color video driver. However, with such a driver, Windows can only supply one
set of colors on the screen at a time. Therefore, when two on- screen images,
such as wallpaper and 500 Nations, make separate color requests, you may see
washed-out colors because Windows applies the same set of 256 colors to each
application.

Additional query words: kbhowto 1.00 fade fading mmtitles kbmm wash cd cd-rom compact disc disk fuzzy blurry dull tile photos photo pictures PictureGallery

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Keywords          : win31 kbfaq
Technology        : kbHomeProdSearch
Version           : WINDOWS:1.0

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