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For the corrupted colors issue:

##DirectDrawFix##

You only need to run this once on StarCraft.exe. With this, there's no need to manually close, or use scripts that will close Explorer.exe everytime you run Starcraft.

Windows Vista and Windows 7 break color compatibility with certain applications that depend upon palette-based, 256-color graphics. Due to changes to DirectX and DirectDraw, the colors of these applications and games may appear distorted under these newer operating systems.

 

DirectDrawFix will allow you to resolve this specific issue by applying required compatibility fixes to the registry. Elevation is required for this application to perform its updates.

For the corrupted colors issue:

DirectDrawFix

You only need to run this once on StarCraft.exe. With this, there's no need to manually close, or use scripts that will close Explorer.exe everytime you run Starcraft.

Windows Vista and Windows 7 break color compatibility with certain applications that depend upon palette-based, 256-color graphics. Due to changes to DirectX and DirectDraw, the colors of these applications and games may appear distorted under these newer operating systems.

DirectDrawFix will allow you to resolve this specific issue by applying required compatibility fixes to the registry. Elevation is required for this application to perform its updates.

For the corrupted colors issue:

##DirectDrawFix## http://www.xomicron.com/software/directdrawfix/

You only need to run this once on StarCraft.exe. No more need to manually close or use scripts that will close Explorer.exe everytime you run Starcraft.

Windows Vista and Windows 7 break color compatibility with certain applications that depend upon palette-based, 256-color graphics. Due to changes to DirectX and DirectDraw, the colors of these applications and games may appear distorted under these newer operating systems.

DirectDrawFix will allow you to resolve this specific issue by applying required compatibility fixes to the registry. Elevation is required for this application to perform its updates.

I believe that this also does the same fix that Blizzard's DirectDraw registry key fix for StarCraft does. However if DirectDrawFix does not work, you might want to try Blizzard's DirectDraw registry key fix.

For the corrupted colors issue:

##DirectDrawFix##

You only need to run this once on StarCraft.exe. With this, there's no need to manually close, or use scripts that will close Explorer.exe everytime you run Starcraft.

Windows Vista and Windows 7 break color compatibility with certain applications that depend upon palette-based, 256-color graphics. Due to changes to DirectX and DirectDraw, the colors of these applications and games may appear distorted under these newer operating systems.

DirectDrawFix will allow you to resolve this specific issue by applying required compatibility fixes to the registry. Elevation is required for this application to perform its updates.

For the corrupted colors issue:

##DirectDrawFix## http://www.xomicron.com/software/directdrawfix/

You only need to run this once on StarCraft.exe. No more need to manually close or use scripts that will close Explorer.exe everytime you run Starcraft.

Windows Vista and Windows 7 break color compatibility with certain applications that depend upon palette-based, 256-color graphics. Due to changes to DirectX and DirectDraw, the colors of these applications and games may appear distorted under these newer operating systems.

DirectDrawFix will allow you to resolve this specific issue by applying required compatibility fixes to the registry. Elevation is required for this application to perform its updates.

For the corrupted colors issue:

##DirectDrawFix## http://www.xomicron.com/software/directdrawfix/

You only need to run this once on StarCraft.exe. No more need to manually close or use scripts that will close Explorer.exe everytime you run Starcraft.

Windows Vista and Windows 7 break color compatibility with certain applications that depend upon palette-based, 256-color graphics. Due to changes to DirectX and DirectDraw, the colors of these applications and games may appear distorted under these newer operating systems.

DirectDrawFix will allow you to resolve this specific issue by applying required compatibility fixes to the registry. Elevation is required for this application to perform its updates.

I believe that this also does the same fix that Blizzard's DirectDraw registry key fix for StarCraft does. However if DirectDrawFix does not work, you might want to try Blizzard's DirectDraw registry key fix.