Browsers lost color background!!!

Well i tried searching the web for a solution, tried a couple things and did not find it so i thought id ask you guys. Both IE & Firefox don't display the back ground on any web page its all white not sure what i did to it lol.. Anyone have this issue before? Thanks in advance for any help.

 

Post some pics, I may or may not have had this issue before. =)

 

fraps doesnt seem to work. were does print screen pics go to?

 

I'm not so sure if print screen actually saves a picture in a particular location, but you can open paint and paste the print screen there.

 

Here is a shot of newegg

 

here is evga

 

All browsers are doing this? Is it 100% consistent each time you reload a given page?

 

yea both IE and firefox do it. yes its the same this every time i visit any site.Its gotta be some sort of setting but i cannot find it. It just happened all of a sudden though i didn't change any settings pertaining to browsers. Everything else i use works fine app,games etc..

 

I suspect it looks like there may be a program/setting that is preventing css style codes of web pages not to be recognised..since all the pages seem to have their image background colors and images not displaying.....just a guess.

 

For Internet Explorer, Tools ---> Internet Options ---> Accessibility

See attached

I'm sure FireFox has a similar setting.

 

Cool Bat thanks ill check it out tonight when i get off work.

 

Get Google Chrome, is the one I use and I reccomend it . Or well try with Safari its cool too

 

those settings seem fine didn't seem to help.

 

Multiple browsers means this is going to be a singular root cause. What did you change right before this started? Application(s) installed? Driver change? OC? Registry cleaning?

 

its weird i didn't do anything setting wise for a while now. the last change was the dell driver & i just finished installing the newest set & having the same issue.
It was working fine for the longest time i ran virus scans just in case came out clean.
ill keep poking around some.

 

Actually, Bat was closer than I thought. I bet this is it.

" Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Ease of Access Center\Make the computer easier to see"

There you will find " Remove background images (where available)"

 

no luck those settings seem to be fine. even selected them applied & back.

 

Have you got high contrast activated? It's in the ease of access centre in control panel - the default shortcut (if activated) is alt-left shift-print screen.

 

Did you try removing the alienware skin + program? Those stardock apps can have weird effects..

 

Damnit! I really thought that was going to be it.

Have you tried shaking the laptop to see if the html background rendering chip has come loose?

 

Looks to me like it's out of Aero glass and switched to classic . Alien guise was doing some weird crap on my M11X so I took it back off .

 

Echascetch? lol


I am at work right now ill jump back on trying to figure it out tonight.

 

man i googled my butt off cant find anything new to try to get this crap fixed. Aside from a fresh install with my external burner using the OS dvd i cant think of anything else. uhg what a pain.

 

Have you tried just rolling back windows a few days till before it started. Would be nice to know what caused it though.

 

Did you check to see if High Contrast was turned on in the ease of access section of the control panel (or you have selected a high contrast theme in personalisation)? Bit of a long shot, but that can cause the problems you are describing.

 

Nah i tried that as well bro. What a bummer hehe

 

I'd try disabling/uninstalling AlienGUIse and/or selecting one of the default windows desktop themes. It's fairly odd to be happening in both Firefox and IE - can't think of any other cause except for the high contrast settings/themes.

 

See: White background's problem in web pages

 

Were can i disable it? dont see it in any menu.

oh yea & i found that same link a while back,

 

Start - Program - Dell - Mycolors. Or just uninstall it through add/remove programs.

 

well i have checked all the settings suggested none of which changed/fixed the issue,i even checked stuff i found through google etc... I just rebooted after a windows update & guess what its magically all better now. !! i mean i am glad it somehow fixed itself but i wish i knew what was causing it. If it happens again i am gonna punch something lol.

 

Just wanted to thank you guys for your assistance. Hopefully I never see that issue again hehe.