help needed, someone messed up my settings

NeVeR

hi
When i was away from my desk in work someone messed up the look of my PC..

I've attaced 2 screen shots.

1 is of boards and the other is of pioneer.eu this is how they appear on my screen,

1 of the guys is playing a Joke and i normally can fix this but cant figure out whats up.

Ive right clicked on desktop and changed the style back to default. but nothing is working.

Any suggestions.

NeVeR

just to add this is effecting all my pages.. Including outlook express/word/excel everything is messed up..

Overheal

tried restarting? Throwing coffee at your man? Pressing F11?

NeVeR

I pressed f11 to get a better screen shot.. tried a restart.. had no coffer to hand..

I'm sure he went into "display properties" and changed .. themes or apperance or something.. But i cant get it back the same..

he changed all the boxes and screens black and purple but i was able to change them back.. wrecking my head.

BoB_BoT

from what I can see from those screen shots it's only effecting your browser?
If so, he could have disabled scripting. Trying going into Internet Explorers Options (can be found under tools), go to the last tab "advanced" and click "restore advanced settings" if that doesn't work, try "restore".

Let me know how you get on with that.

-Rob

*edit* just noticed you mentioned this is affecting all your applications. check a few things. mainly your display adapter. where you went to reset the appearance settings, go to the last tab that says display, and just reset it to it's defaults (may be other menus to access depending on the graphics card)

also, make sure your monitor cable is plugged in securely.
and last, your monitor has colour control settings. bring up the on screen display, and reset it to factory settings (control buttons located on the monitor itself)

NeVeR

the guy that did this doesnt know alot about computers... and he only had like 30 seconds to mess around with it as i was out of the office.. I'll check those things tomorrow and get back to you.thanks

BoB_BoT

no worries, it's truly amazing how people can **** things up so badly when they have so little knowledge of computers.

Sherifu

Go to control panel / accessibility options, then select the disply tab. Uncheck the use high contrast checkbox. All background colors and font stability should return immediately. If not, reboot and try again.

NeVeR

I found what he did...

If you press and hold ALT + shift + Print screen you can change the res of your screen,

and when i came in this morning is was ok.

Now i have to plot a revange. muhahaha.. any ideas on what to do ? dont want to totally mess him up but something to send a message haha.

Sherifu

ALT + shift + Print screen is the shortcut for high contrast accessability

calex71

NeVeR wrote: »

I found what he did...

If you press and hold ALT + shift + Print screen you can change the res of your screen,

and when i came in this morning is was ok.

Now i have to plot a revange. muhahaha.. any ideas on what to do ? dont want to totally mess him up but something to send a message haha.

ahhhh reminds me of comming back to the desk to find my display rotated 90 or 180 degrees and spoiling their amusement by laughing out loud and cooly using the keboard short cut to rotate iti back

oldgeezer

Nice one i did one time was to take a screen snap of the guys desktop use it as the background and then move all the icons down the bottom... takes a while before they realise they are clicking a background.

junkster12345

lock your workstation in future when you leave it, you do know that when its you that is logged in, you are responsible for what happens on that pc.

mukki

rkm wrote: »

ALT + shift + Print screen is the shortcut for high contrast accessability

that i did not know



cool :cool:

johntreacy

Change his e-mail signature for revenge, nobody really looks at but be careful what put in there as this is added to all e-mail's.