MIKE ROSS wrote in a message to BEN RITCHEY:

 MR> "BEN RITCHEY" wrote to "MIKE ROSS" (28 May 03  17:00:10)
 MR>  --- on the topic of "Win98 multi-boot?"

 MR: > Funny thing is during loading the clouds image is perfect. Seems to
 MR: > become grainy only around when the office suite loads its menubar. Any
 MR: > ideas?

 BR> Unless Office is changing the color depth/bits, or maybe it's
 BR> replacing the image with one of a poorer resolution (look for
 BR> clouds.bmp, or whatever the name is, in the Office subdir's and replace
 BR> with Windows default if so. :)

 MR> Hmmm... I'll try that, TIA. In any case, found the desktop was set
 MR> to display as a webpage and when I clicked that feature off the
 MR> clouds became clear at last. Methinks a ms programmer smoked a bong
 MR> too many. 

I really really hate that...

Every stinking window on the 98 box here opens up that way,  since I don't
use a global setting,  and you have to change each and every one of them. 
Why that's the default and where you might possibly change it I don't know.
 Maybe your explanation makes some sense.  

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