Vista - Visited links color

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?

"Silver Surfer" <SilverSurfer@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:1DEA0419-5874-4002-89E3-617A9FF5970B@microsoft.com...
> 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've not seen that problem with Vista.

There are reset options on the Advanced tab of IE7 ('Restore Advanced
Settings' and 'Reset'), as well as an option to run Internet Explorer with
'no add-ons' (for testing purposes)

Start > internet > Click the 'Internet Explorer (no add-ons) option

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Jon

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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