Silver Surfer;3028802 Wrote:
> In a Google newsgroup one of the posters described having the exact
> same
> problem I'm experiencing.
>
> It has to do with the color of the links on a Google search results
> page.
> The visited links remain blue. They don't change to magenta like they
> used
> to do pre-Vista.
>
> I stumbled on a way to get the visited links to change color, but it
> doesn't
> seem like the change should be necessary. Went into Internet Tools on
> the
> General tab and brought up the "accessibility" and "color" dialogs.
> Under
> "accessibility" I checked "ignore colors specified on Web pages" check
> box.
> Under "colors" I unchecked the "use windows colors" box, and accepted
> all
> the default color settings for fonts, background, links, etc. except
> background. Changed that from gray to white. That fixed the visited
> link
> color problem, but IE7 now overrides the colors on pages it displays
> using
> the colors spelled out inside my "color" button.
>
> Where do you think this problem originated? Vista? IE7? Google?
> Combination?
I'm not sure where it originated but I'm glad I found your fix. I was
having the same problem. Thanks.
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