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Re: "The color scheme has been changed to windows vista basi

by rovingcowboy » Sun Jan 30, 2011 2:19 am

the registry might be messed with by some other program that changes the color scheme. do you have any games on the computer that change screen and colors for its use.? like maybe an old dos game,
some of the dot net games also change color and size of the screen. those might be making the system mess up, one other program is a tweaking program called pc pitstop that one will mess up the power scheme so its possible it is messing up the color scheme too. if you have any of those type of system optimizing programs you might want to revert back to the original settings before you used it and then remove that porgram and test the skin color again.
i had to take out that pc pitstop program because it locked up several features it should not have had anything to do with.

i just spent 4 hours on the other computer removing a program that would not update i had to delete all its files and clean the registry 3 or 4 times to get the hotkey out that would make it look for a hard drive that was not in the computer.
then i had to reinstall that program with its new version. on that same computer i spent 18 hours getting updates for the av program as it was messed up in the registry by something also, so the registy being messed up by something can and does cause strange errors.

which is why i keep saying to get a program that works on your op system to clean and defragment your registry.
you said aero skin. sounds like monkey is not set to use the aero skin of vista, or its a registy error.

if you removed mediamonkey before did you do a registy cleaning afterwards? did you clean your page file, your prefetch file, and your other junk files out. do you still have system restore files in from before you uninstalled mediamonkey.

get the ccleaner slim no tool bar. its free on majorgeeks.com and use its tools to remove all the old system restore files
on your system. i save the latest 3 or 4 of them to make sure nothing is messed up and can't be undone.

one of the only other things i can think of that will mess with programs in windows computers is if you remove any of the other microsoft programs like iexplorer, it is not to mess with anything but they still have it linked to other programs by
way of the other programs needing a file that is only in the iexplorer. and if you don't have the latest updates for all the
microsoft programs that too can cause issues to happen at the strangest places.

well maybe if you updated or upgraded from mm 2.5.998 to mm 3 that might have left some file in vista still thinking its mm 2. ?

but the fact it is vista can be the issue its self. i know you seen and heard it before, but microsoft really did announce on the television news that they had decided to release win 7 earlier then they wanted. because they could not fix vista and was stopping development on vista. so if they can't fix it theres little anyone else might have a chance at fixing it too.
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Re: "The color scheme has been changed to windows vista basi

by Ninjabear » Sat Jan 29, 2011 6:21 pm

nohitter151 wrote:I really don't know then, sorry.
Ok np, it's not a big issue. I've just always put up with it, thought it might have a cure.

Re: "The color scheme has been changed to windows vista basi

by nohitter151 » Sat Jan 29, 2011 6:04 pm

I really don't know then, sorry.

Re: "The color scheme has been changed to windows vista basi

by Ninjabear » Sat Jan 29, 2011 5:26 pm

nohitter151 wrote:The registry really should not affect this at all. You've checked the shortcut properties to ensure it isn't being run in compatibility mode?
Like I say it's a default installation, no changes. I've been into the mediamonkey.exe / compatibility / yes it's not running in that.

Re: "The color scheme has been changed to windows vista basi

by nohitter151 » Sat Jan 29, 2011 5:18 pm

The registry really should not affect this at all. You've checked the shortcut properties to ensure it isn't being run in compatibility mode?

Re: "The color scheme has been changed to windows vista basi

by Ninjabear » Sat Jan 29, 2011 5:05 pm

Update:

I turned off the firewall to see if it was controlling the registry but didn't have much of an effect except to give me this message instead:

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The color scheme has been changed

The following program has performed an action that requires Windows tp temporarily change the color scheme to Windows 7 Basic.

Program MediaMonkey - Audio Library
Publisher Ventis Media, Inc.
Process identifier (PID):3132

Windows will automatically change the color scheme back to Windows Aero when this program or other programs performing similar actions are no longer running.
I tried switching the checkbox in skin section multiple times but to no avail. I don't think there are any other programs capable of controlling the registry.

Re: "The color scheme has been changed to windows vista basi

by Ninjabear » Sat Jan 29, 2011 4:54 pm

nohitter151 wrote:Never saw that here, even if I run MM in compatibility mode. Are your graphics drivers up to date?
Please read previous post for specs etc.



All I can say is that everything is working but the screen flashes with this message when Aero is on, and it really is a new install, just formated hdd a few days ago and reinstalled.

Re: "The color scheme has been changed to windows vista basi

by nohitter151 » Sat Jan 29, 2011 4:31 pm

Never saw that here, even if I run MM in compatibility mode. Are your graphics drivers up to date?

Re: "The color scheme has been changed to windows vista basi

by Ninjabear » Sat Jan 29, 2011 3:41 pm

rovingcowboy wrote:...what monkey does is use check boxe's on the option panel you pick the skin in. for you to change to windows color scheme
or use the skin.

make sure that is not checked and i know you must have done that but just try checking it again, and then click okay.
then go back and uncheck it and click okay to see if that has changed it , you will have to restart monkey each time
you change that option.
...
So are you saying that I need to ensure that I override the windows system theme with MM? I tried setting the checkbox in the skin section which reads:

"Override Skin theme with Windows System theme (requires restart)" and I tried it on and off (with restart) but in both cases it causes the theme to switch to "windows 7 basic". I was hoping to avoid this or at least avoid the message.

Re: "The color scheme has been changed to windows vista basi

by rovingcowboy » Sat Jan 29, 2011 3:30 pm

i've never had this issue that i can remember?

what monkey does is use check boxe's on the option panel you pick the skin in. for you to change to windows color scheme
or use the skin.

make sure that is not checked and i know you must have done that but just try checking it again, and then click okay.
then go back and uncheck it and click okay to see if that has changed it , you will have to restart monkey each time
you change that option.

i'm thinking maybe the registry has not cleared a check mark and needs to be hit again to get it cleared. thats what
i'm saying to try and do it again.

but if that is not working make a debug report and send in to support. :-?

Re: "The color scheme has been changed to windows vista basi

by Ninjabear » Sat Jan 29, 2011 11:57 am

Please note this is an old thread.

I have this problem still and none of the advice here helps. I've not modified MM in any way / default installation. I'm using a similar spec to some of the others here:

MM 3.2.4.1304
Core 2 Duo e8400 3ghz
2GB DDRII
9600GT XFX 512mb (Latest graphics driver direct from website just added on a fresh install)
PC running Windows 7 32bit
2 x Philips 190cw monitors
160gb hdd SATA2

I have always had this problem with MM, both when using Windows XP and now Windows 7. It flashes the screen when switching in/out of MM. No compatibility mode, no fancy settings, latest drivers.

Re: "The color scheme has been changed to windows vista basic"

by drbn » Thu May 13, 2010 12:27 pm

hepek wrote:uncheck compatibility mode of mediamonkey. maybe it's on windows xp. it has to work.
Thank you, you 've been very helpful. Cheers!

Re: "The color scheme has been changed to windows vista basic"

by shadow257 » Tue May 11, 2010 3:26 pm

Same for me, deleted d_iphone.dll and it got rid of the error. 3.2.0.1294 on windows 7 x64bit .

Re: "The color scheme has been changed to windows vista basic"

by saltybawls » Tue Feb 02, 2010 7:53 pm

deleting the d_iphone.dll file worked for me as well! weird... i've always hated iEverythings...

Re: "The color scheme has been changed to windows vista basic"

by fox3x » Thu Oct 29, 2009 8:34 am

idesdemars wrote:i unchecked the compatibility box and sure enough, the message went away!
I did just that . right click on icon and uncheck compatibility mode for win xp. and it worked !

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