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That really sounds like a rights issue, is it possible that you are signed
on under another name other than administrator? Or are you on a network
that someone may have changed your rights?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alex Matulich" <alex@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, December 18, 2004 2:21 PM
Subject: OT: invisible checkmarks in checkboxes
> All right, I posted this to usenet, to no avail. Short of
> re-installing Windows (I was trying to avoid what has become an
> annual ritual) what can I do?
>
> I noticed that checkboxes inside a list (such as in the Windows XP
> Disk Cleanup utility) are all invisible! I can toggle them but the
> checkmarks never appear. Checkboxes by themselves in a dialog work
> OK; just the ones contained in a list have invisible checkmarks.
>
> To illustrate, see http://unicorn.us.com/alex/nocheckmark.gif
> (a small 19K screen capture showing the problem).
>
> This picture shows the Windows XP Disk Cleanup utility. The
> 'Temporary Internet Files' box is checked, but the checkmark is
> invisible. You can tell it's checked because the total amount of
> disk space gained is shown as 866 KB, just like that checkbox. I
> can click on any of the boxes and the total at the bottom will
> change, but no checkmarks appear.
>
> Observations:
>
> * This happens on ANY program that has checkboxes in lists (such as
> SpyBot S&D advanced settings, when I first noticed this problem).
>
> * Three different spyware utilities (AdAware, SpyBot S&D,
> SpySweeper) indicate that I'm clean.
>
> * A registry cleaner (TweakNow RegCleaner) didn't help.
>
> * When I reboot into safe mode, everything works fine!
>
> * But then when I reboot back into normal mode, the problem
> reappears.
>
> * Re-installing SP2 on WinP didn't fix anything.
>
> * Microsoft Knowledge Base suggests that I may have the background
> color set the same as the foreground. This isn't the case.
> Themes are disabled, and I'm using the default Windows Standard
> color scheme.
>
> The only thing I remember doing prior to noticing this, was to
> install the K-Lite codec pack, with the default settings. I can't
> imagine why that would create a problem. Uninstalling it didn't
> help. System restore is disabled on this machine. In any case, I
> wouldn't know when the problem began, only when I firt noticed.
>
> Is there a corrupted DLL somewhere? Does anybody have any idea what
> could be wrong? This problem makes many programs un-usable.
>
> --
> ,|___ Alex Matulich -- alex@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> // +__> Director of Research and Development
> // \
> // __) Unicorn Research Corporation -- http://unicorn.us.com
>
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