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Blank Progress Meter

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by castaway kid

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I'm running Windows 98 w/ IE 5.5. All of my progress meters throughout the OS remain blank, whether it is for formatting a disk, copying files, downloading from the Internet or watching a program (such as IE) install. The numerical indicators (bytes and percent complete) still function. Is this the result of a missing system file, and if so, what file?

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by mphoffar

My first guess would be your color scheme. Try to change that to something like windows standard or windows classic. It sounds like you're looking at like a grey on grey, or blue on blue or whatever color it is, but I doubt that this is a missing system file or something.

Good luck to you

Mark

by castaway kid

That did the trick. I had set the background color of "selected items" to match the grey color of the Start Menu. This in turn made the progress meter "background" color match the default grey color of an empty progress meter.

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