desktop theme is a black one or the wallpaper? Anyway, try using the default
windows theme with the gray color and see how it looks.

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> Hmm, well, I've never done anything at all with the view? Grrr...LOL
> I'm using one of the windows color schemes, and the only difference is my
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Joe - 25 Sep 2007 00:50 GMT
Ok, that worked, but my question is WHY did it work? The Desktop Color has
never before effected anything at all in Outlook, so something was to have
changed to tie it to window's system colors apparently...so how can I undo
that? (I prefer to have a black desktop LOL!
> desktop theme is a black one or the wallpaper? Anyway, try using the default
> windows theme with the gray color and see how it looks.
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> >> > Joe
Brian Tillman - 25 Sep 2007 13:11 GMT
> Ok, that worked, but my question is WHY did it work? The Desktop
> Color has never before effected anything at all in Outlook, so
> something was to have changed to tie it to window's system colors
> apparently...so how can I undo that? (I prefer to have a black
> desktop LOL!
Without changing the rest of the Windows theme, set your Windows desktop
color to black. That shouldn't affect Outlook.

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