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DADDY BOB'S COMPUTER Q & A
November 5, 2006
Q. I
installed a game for my grandson on my
computer & now when I highlight, instead
of turning blue, it turns turquoise. I
could uninstall the game, but can I
change back to blue some other way?
A. You don't say where you
highlight, but if in Windows itself,
like when highlighting a file name
in a folder, try this:
Right click on the desktop
Click the Appearances tab
Click the Advanced button
Near the bottom there is a section
labeled "Item:" Click on the scroll
arrow next to it, and a list will
open.
Hold your mouse pointer over the top
item, probably called 3D and it will
highlight. If your computer is still
set to double click, then you may
have to click once to get it to
highlight.
Then, using the cursor down button,
(not the mouse) scroll down the list
one item at a time, and as you go, observe the colors
displayed to the right.
Cursor down until you find the color
you don't want, then click on it and
change the color to whatever you do
want it to be.
Unfortunately, there will not be an
item listed as Highlight, but the
highlight color is controlled by one
of the items listed.
Q.
When I boot my PC
and the wallpaper appears it
takes about 2 minutes for the
Icons (desktop) to appear. I
have tried several things but
nothing works. What can I do
besides put my foot through it?
A. Well putting
your foot through it will
definitely not fix it.
What normally causes the
delay in Windows startup is
applications and other
programs starting up. Most,
but not all of these
programs will put an icon in
the system tray, that is the
one in the lower right of
the screen. If there are
more than 2 or 3 there, then
you probably have too many
things stating up with
Windows and running in the
background taking up
resources. Things that
should be there are
antivirus programs, volume
control, possibly a network
connection if you are on a
network, but few other
things.
Click Start, then Run, enter
msconfig and click OK. When
the system configuration
Utility opens, click the
Startup tab. Most of what is
starting up will be listed
there. I say most because
all well behaving programs
will list there. However, if
there is malware running on
the computer it probably
will NOT be listed there, or
if it is, it will be
disguised to look like a
legit program. Click
HERE
to read a previous article
that should explain the
System Configuration Utility
further.
If this doesn't fix the
problem, then run a good
malware program like Windows
Defender, Ad-Aware, or
Spybot Search and Destroy.
These are all free, and
running all of them will
give the best results.
Q. Something happened to my
computer and now my cursor
stopped blinking. It doesn't
matter what program I am in,
it just sits there and
doesn't blink. How can I get
the blink back?
A. Well, this is
something that probably
didn't just happen on its
own. However, regardless of
how it happened, it is easy
to get your cursor blink
back. Click Start, then Run,
and enter "control keyboard"
without the quotes. This
will open the keyboard
properties as shown here.
Access to this dialog is
also possible via the
Control Panel.
At the bottom is where you set
the cursor blink rate. I suspect
that yours will be all the way
to the left, which turns the
blink off.
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