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Office & Visual Studio stuck in 256 colour mode

Fresh5 days ago
Mar 15, 20262173 views
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For no reason I can determine, all of Office 2007 and Visual Studio 2008 have started running in what looks like 256 colour mode on my (up to date) Windows XP machine: Other apps: Firefox, IE8, VS2005, Start Menu etc are fine. I cannot seem to be able to get it working properly, I have tried/checke…

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Fix for: Office & Visual Studio stuck in 256 colour mode

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According to google, this problem is caused by your dual displays. Switch one off, re-boot and try to load office again.

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