Special folder background images disappear after minor color change - please advise!

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 Okay, this all started because I had to upgrade - for absurd work purposes - to Office 2007. And when I first installed it I was not seeing the purty tabbed skin MS must be so proud of. Instead I was seeing a colorless, or rather greyed out version splotchy version.

I searched and found that quite a few people had experienced this, either because of an extra SMS driver on their system or because of incompatible color settings. And by incompatible, I mean that if your 3d Objects color in the Advanced Appearance window of Display Properties is the same (uncustomized) color as your Windows background color, then the glitch will happen. How to fix? By doing a slight color change, either change your 3dobjects color to something different than your windows background color - or select the same customized color for each.

But as soon as I did this, the Special Folder background images disappear.

Is there a way to customize the Special Folder background images in SkinStudio (I have version 5) so that they ALWAYS show up with the skin that I'm using? I'm using XP Pro, btw.

Any help would be greatly appreciated - thanks!!

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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I think each skin would have to be set... but don't quote me.
Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Not sure I followed that exactly...but...in XP,the special (explorer)folder images will only show if the top left pixel of the image is an exact match for the window color.

If we could use translucency it wouldnt be an issue but all but 1 has to be a bitmap.(control or system,I dont remember) :) 
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Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Not sure I followed that exactly...but...in XP,the special (explorer)folder images will only show if the top left pixel of the image is an exact match for the window color.If we could use translucency it wouldnt be an issue but all but 1 has to be a bitmap.(control or system,I dont remember)  
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Awesome, that was it! I just matched the numbers of the images & the window background colors in basic Paint and it worked! God I'm dumb...
Thanks again:)
Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top
God I'm dumb...
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Not at all...lots of people dont know that one.Its a pretty strange behavior when you think about it. ;)