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by compass

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Hi, I reinstalled Windows 95 because I had lost the text under the icons on the desktop and on the IE tool bar and the background colors on all screens and programs looked like I was in the safemode. Now when I login and enter my password I have the same problems, but if I cancel on the password screen Windows 95 loads just fine with all the text and background colors great! Why does this happen? How can I correct it? This is a gateway, five years old. Thanks for your help - Penny

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by fellico

Well Penny, it looks as if someone has changed your display settings for your account (your log in account.). if you Right-click on the desktop, click properties. click the appearence tab. then the first drop down box (says "Schemes" above it) click on "windows standard". click ok. see what happens

by jsull

If the above answer doesn't work for you, then most likely your Windows Standard scheme has been over-written. If so, I have a file that can reset it for you-let me know if you need it and I can e-mail it to you.

by rrmuller

If even those two above don't work you may need to reinstall Win 95 from a freshly formated hard drive. Use Windows to create a boot disk with CD-ROM support (if you use a CD to load Windows), reboot the computer into DOS mode, at the c: prompt type "format c:". Let it do it's thing to reformat the hard drive then reboot with your boot disk in the floppy drive. Reload Windows as you did before, you will also need to reload any other programs and drivers that you had before.

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