Posted by dOoBiX on June 24th, 2010 at 3:04 pm | 27,754 views
So how many of you still play StarCraft on Windows 7 with the colors all messed up? To be honest, this doesn’t really matter, because once you start a match, all the colors will be fine. The colors are only weird before, and after a match.
But, if you really want to fix this color problem manually, just follow the steps below:
- Start StarCraft
- Ctrl+Shift+Esc to open Task Manager
- Find explorer.exe and click End Process
- Alt+Tab to get back into StarCraft
After you’re done playing StarCraft, you need to re-open explorer.exe:
- Ctrl+Shift+Esc to open Task Manager
- Click File > New Task
- Type “explorer” and press enter
Now how was that? Wouldn’t it be better if there was a script to close and re-open explorer.exe for you? Well, guess what? You can make one! Here’s how:
- Open Notepad
- Copy and paste these 3 lines into Notepad:
taskkill /f /IM explorer.exe "C:\Program Files\StarCraft\starcraft.exe" start explorer.exe
- Make sure that 2nd line in Notepad is where your StarCraft is located, otherwise change it
- Click File > Save As, and name the file as ColorFix.cmd.
If you are having trouble creating the ColorFix.cmd file, you may download it below:
Windows 7 StarCraft Color Fix (6781 downloads)Now you can go enjoy your StarCraft with normal colors!