Screen changed to aged newspaper look.

[Spongebob Squarepants]

My screen colour suddenly changed to a dull yellow effect, it's not the monitor though as the inbuilt menu for it still looks normal. i checked the plugs, did a virus scan and used system restore but no luck. i had been previewing video files that weren't working well, wmp had been searching for codecs. When i went to delete a couple of files it suddenly went yellow. I'm running XP, please help.

[hawkburn]

What were those couple of files? Like filenames and filetypes?

[Spongebob Squarepants]

they were both incomplete music videos of the same song i was downloading off soulseek.
the first file had a .m2v extension which wmp wouldn't play. I renamed it to .mpg and it played it, but badly, wmp searched for codecs but failed. The second file is an .mpg but it didn't play any better. The screen changed when the "send to recycle bin" prompt appeared.

[Psilaxs]

Do you have newer video card or recently download a new driver set? Sounds like a shader option where it will create stenciled look, or a old movie look, etc. check your driver settings if you are running a newer video card, or catalyst driver set.

[Spongebob Squarepants]

No its an older 64MB NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4200. NVIDIA drivers are installed, I haven't touched them (knowingly). How exactly would you activate a shader option? i don't know much about drivers or video cards.

[DillingerOZ]

right click the desktop and select properties
go to the settings tab and click on advanced down at the bottom

Check all the tabs there for anything that may deal with the problem your having. I don't know much either, worth a shot though.

[DillingerOZ]

Also, did it let you delete those video files you mentioned? If you did download some codecs try to find them all and unistall them. WMP never has found any for me either, don't know why they have that feature.

Lastly, just go to the nvidia site and get the newest version, if that's what you have search around google for another.

[Spongebob Squarepants]

Thanks for replying, I'd forgot about this thread. For the record I was wrong about the screen, somehow the colour config had changed from 6300k to 9300k. Not long after my dvd rewriter crapped out. The same thing happened again when a faulty new dvd rewriter was installed. Go figure.
-cheers

[fireforce555]

My mon did that about a year ago, out of the blue it would randomly take on a "jaundiced" appearence. I thought my monitor was about to die but I found it was because of the connector being loose.