Visio 2000 with XP

[Thaddeus Ciechanowski]

I've been trying to get 2000 to work smoothly with XP. I've been trying for
quite a while. What happens is that the page background, page, stencil
background are all black when I start Visio. Even when I change it, it
reverts back when I start Visio again. Also I can't change the background of
the Stencil section. I have the latest patches/SP2. Nothing seems to help.
I guess I'm tired of changing the backgrounds everytime I use Viso. This
problem didn't exist with W2k.

Thanks,

 

[Paul Herber]

I've been trying to get 2000 to work smoothly with XP. I've been trying for
quite a while. What happens is that the page background, page, stencil
background are all black when I start Visio. Even when I change it, it
reverts back when I start Visio again. Also I can't change the background of
the Stencil section. I have the latest patches/SP2. Nothing seems to help.
I guess I'm tired of changing the backgrounds everytime I use Viso. This
problem didn't exist with W2k.

That sounds like a video drivers problem to me. You might need to
update the drivers, or, try this first, reduce any hardware video
acceleration.
Control Panel -> Display -> Advanced
depends on the video card from there

 

[wr]

Hi Thaddeus,

As Paul said drivers can be an issue.

Rights can be an issue as well.
Did you install Visio as admin or as user?
This issue might have appeared because an admin installed Visio
and then you log on as user with not enough rights.

See article http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q279855/
There they point to this issue and in the workaround you see that you have
to have enough rights to write to that key
See also http://support.microsoft.com/kb/298434 for an explanation of
registry keys in Visio 2000

René