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Alex,
Hard to know what might have changed this. I would try a couple of
things before doing an install. However you can try this kind of
install if it shows up as an option. Many times it doesn't show up
and even if it does it is scary and may not work. Plus you then have
to go back and install all the Service Packs to get back to SP?
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm
Try some easy stuff like do change the background or foreground color
just to see if you can jog the Registry to change then change back
correctly, cause it probably is a registry entry. You have rebooted
haven't you?
Also you might change from Classic XP view to the new one or vise
versa and back again. Also in Control panel Display try messing with
the Appearance settings in color scheme. Change to a different one
then back to Windows Standard or whatever you are using. There is
advanced settings too you might try. Who knows.
That is a real little mess something has gotten you into. My favorite
is to set the monitor to the wrong kind and you wind up with a black
screen. I just love that one.
Jimmy
Saturday, December 18, 2004, 2:21:33 PM, you wrote:
AM> All right, I posted this to usenet, to no avail. Short of
AM> re-installing Windows (I was trying to avoid what has become an
AM> annual ritual) what can I do?
AM> I noticed that checkboxes inside a list (such as in the Windows XP
AM> Disk Cleanup utility) are all invisible! I can toggle them but the
AM> checkmarks never appear. Checkboxes by themselves in a dialog work
AM> OK; just the ones contained in a list have invisible checkmarks.
AM> To illustrate, see http://unicorn.us.com/alex/nocheckmark.gif
AM> (a small 19K screen capture showing the problem).
AM> This picture shows the Windows XP Disk Cleanup utility. The
AM> 'Temporary Internet Files' box is checked, but the checkmark is
AM> invisible. You can tell it's checked because the total amount of
AM> disk space gained is shown as 866 KB, just like that checkbox. I
AM> can click on any of the boxes and the total at the bottom will
AM> change, but no checkmarks appear.
AM> Observations:
AM> * This happens on ANY program that has checkboxes in lists (such as
AM> SpyBot S&D advanced settings, when I first noticed this problem).
AM> * Three different spyware utilities (AdAware, SpyBot S&D,
AM> SpySweeper) indicate that I'm clean.
AM> * A registry cleaner (TweakNow RegCleaner) didn't help.
AM> * When I reboot into safe mode, everything works fine!
AM> * But then when I reboot back into normal mode, the problem
AM> reappears.
AM> * Re-installing SP2 on WinP didn't fix anything.
AM> * Microsoft Knowledge Base suggests that I may have the background
AM> color set the same as the foreground. This isn't the case.
AM> Themes are disabled, and I'm using the default Windows Standard
AM> color scheme.
AM> The only thing I remember doing prior to noticing this, was to
AM> install the K-Lite codec pack, with the default settings. I can't
AM> imagine why that would create a problem. Uninstalling it didn't
AM> help. System restore is disabled on this machine. In any case, I
AM> wouldn't know when the problem began, only when I firt noticed.
AM> Is there a corrupted DLL somewhere? Does anybody have any idea what
AM> could be wrong? This problem makes many programs un-usable.
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Best regards,
Jimmy mailto:jhsnowden@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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