Plus! '98 Horror Channel Theme

[Robert Karp]

I've just started following this group so please forgive me if this
question has already been asked and answered. I recently tried to
change to the Horror Channel theme and I got very strange results.
Everything in the preview looked, acted, and sounded just fine but
when I tried to actually switch to it I wound up with a blank desktop
background and most, but not all, of my desktop icons disappeared. I
tried re-booting to see if that would make any difference but it did
not. *All* of the other themes work just fine (after this I tried
them all). I wonder if anyone else has encountered this? I am
running Win-98 (obviously) and IE5 and my computer has a Trident 9397
chip with 4 Mb SGRAM. Thanks for any thoughts.

[Sherry Lynn Felix]

This is an issue that was never solved before the Plus disk went to market.
I too can not use the Horror Theme. My advice is, don't bother using that
one. I suspect it is either sound card or video card related and that they
(Microsoft) have no fix.

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[Robert Karp]

"Sherry Lynn Felix" <slf...@email.msn.com> wrote:

Actually, I did find a fix. What had happened was that I used TweakUI
to disable the Active Desktop features of Win98. There's a Knowledge
Base article I eventually found. There are several Plus! 98 themes
that are really html documents. The Horror Channel is one. Anyway,
once I re-enabled Active Desktop through TweakUI the theme worked
fine. Big deal, too ... it wasn't worth it. Anyway, if this scenario
applies to you, you might try it.

[Sherry Lynn Felix]

Very enlightening, thanks for the tip, Robert. My trouble was with the
sound. It gets stuck in a loop then I have to go to safemode and disable
Horror before I can get back into Windows 98. I don't care all that much
for the horror theme anyway and find it tedious to try and fix it.
Sherry

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