Make sure that you've proper video and display drivers.

>Hi All,
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>Recently, I installed/uninstalled several programs and somewhere in the process some desktop settings that worked previously have now been disabled. I am using Windows 2000 Pro SP3.
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>Here's my problem list so far...
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>In the Display Properties:
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>1) I can no longer enabled font smoothing, "smooth edges of screen fonts" to be exact. It is off and the check box is disabled (greyed out)
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>2) Same for the "use transition effects for menus and tooltips".
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>3) My app windows used to have a 2-color title bar. I tried to set the second color but this is also disabled.
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>I have searched the MS Web site (what a mess that is). Any other ideas?
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>Yes, these are fairly minor problems but, please help if you can. Thanks in advance!