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dog ate my desktop
XP SP3
My dog was playing with my keyboard or mouse and now the text under my icons seems to be reversed. It has the background color box under it and it is transparent when selected. It was the other way. What option fixes that. |
dog ate my desktop
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dog ate my desktop
On Mon, 25 Dec 2017 21:37:40 -0500, Ben Myers
wrote: On 12/25/2017 8:12 PM, wrote: XP SP3 My dog was playing with my keyboard or mouse and now the text under my icons seems to be reversed. It has the background color box under it and it is transparent when selected. It was the other way. What option fixes that. Open "Control Panel", double-click "System", click on the "Advanced" tab and in the "Performance" box, click "Settings". Then on the "Visual Effects" tab, select "Custom", then find and uncheck "Use drop shadows for icon labels on the desktop". Click "OK", then "OK" again. Ben Thanks but that didn't do it. |
dog ate my desktop
On Tue, 26 Dec 2017 02:22:05 -0500, Paul
wrote: wrote: On Mon, 25 Dec 2017 21:37:40 -0500, Ben Myers wrote: On 12/25/2017 8:12 PM, wrote: XP SP3 My dog was playing with my keyboard or mouse and now the text under my icons seems to be reversed. It has the background color box under it and it is transparent when selected. It was the other way. What option fixes that. Open "Control Panel", double-click "System", click on the "Advanced" tab and in the "Performance" box, click "Settings". Then on the "Visual Effects" tab, select "Custom", then find and uncheck "Use drop shadows for icon labels on the desktop". Click "OK", then "OK" again. Ben Thanks but that didn't do it. Do you have any System Restore points ? The setting might be stored in the Registry, and the Registry files are in the Restore Point. On WinXP, files outside your "My Documents" tree are tracked. Say you normally keep Firefox downloads in C:\Downloads instead of My Documents, then if you use a Restore Point, any files gained or lost in your Downloads, would be affected. If you downloaded files "1" and "2" two days ago, and use a Restore Point from three days ago, files "1" and "2" get erased. Copy files like that to a safe place, before using the Restore Point. Files kept in the "officially blessed" parts of C: are unaffected, so nothing in My Documents gets added or subtracted to match the way it was three days ago. Paul I don't let much use "my documents". For some reason system restore does not work on this machine. It goes through all the motions but right at the end it says it is unable to restore. I guess I could load an old C image but I thought this was a simple fix,. |
dog ate my desktop
On 12/25/2017 08:37 PM, Ben Myers wrote:
On 12/25/2017 8:12 PM, wrote: XP SP3 My dog was playing with my keyboard or mouse and now the text under my icons seems to be reversed. It has the background color box under it and it is transparent when selected. It was the other way. What option fixes that. Open "Control Panel", double-click "System", click on the "Advanced" tab and in the "Performance" box, click "Settings".Â* Then on the "Visual Effects" tab, select "Custom", then find and uncheck "Use drop shadows for icon labels on the desktop".Â* Click "OK", then "OK" again. Ben I think there is a high contrast setting there too |
dog ate my desktop
On Tue, 26 Dec 2017 10:23:41 -0600, philo wrote:
On 12/25/2017 08:37 PM, Ben Myers wrote: On 12/25/2017 8:12 PM, wrote: XP SP3 My dog was playing with my keyboard or mouse and now the text under my icons seems to be reversed. It has the background color box under it and it is transparent when selected. It was the other way. What option fixes that. Open "Control Panel", double-click "System", click on the "Advanced" tab and in the "Performance" box, click "Settings".Â* Then on the "Visual Effects" tab, select "Custom", then find and uncheck "Use drop shadows for icon labels on the desktop".Â* Click "OK", then "OK" again. Ben I think there is a high contrast setting there too This just seemed to swap "highlighted" with regular. I really do not know what happened but my dog had the keyboard and mouse on the floor. |
dog ate my desktop
In message , Paul
writes: [] On WinXP, files outside your "My Documents" tree are tracked. Say you normally keep Firefox downloads [] Restore Point. Files kept in the "officially blessed" parts of C: are unaffected, so nothing in My Documents gets added or subtracted to match the way it was three days ago. Paul Are you saying _everything_ else - or maybe everything else on C: - gets tracked, and potentially restored (synced)? This must make for a huge tracking area (if for example you [or the system] delete a few feature films). -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf If mankind minus one were of one opinion, then mankind is no more justified in silencing the one than the one - if he had the power - would be justified in silencing mankind. -John Stuart Mill, philosopher and economist (1806-1873) |
dog ate my desktop
On Tue, 26 Dec 2017 17:57:04 +0000, "J. P. Gilliver (John)"
wrote: In message , Paul writes: [] On WinXP, files outside your "My Documents" tree are tracked. Say you normally keep Firefox downloads [] Restore Point. Files kept in the "officially blessed" parts of C: are unaffected, so nothing in My Documents gets added or subtracted to match the way it was three days ago. Paul Are you saying _everything_ else - or maybe everything else on C: - gets tracked, and potentially restored (synced)? This must make for a huge tracking area (if for example you [or the system] delete a few feature films). They have another record in the NTFS stream and also various in the registry. Long after you deleted the original files. Yes, it's there for forensic purposes. What else ? []'s -- Don't be evil - Google 2004 We have a new policy - Google 2012 |
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On Tue, 26 Dec 2017 02:22:05 -0500, Paul wrote: wrote: On Mon, 25 Dec 2017 21:37:40 -0500, Ben Myers wrote: On 12/25/2017 8:12 PM, wrote: XP SP3 My dog was playing with my keyboard or mouse and now the text under my icons seems to be reversed. It has the background color box under it and it is transparent when selected. It was the other way. What option fixes that. Open "Control Panel", double-click "System", click on the "Advanced" tab and in the "Performance" box, click "Settings". Then on the "Visual Effects" tab, select "Custom", then find and uncheck "Use drop shadows for icon labels on the desktop". Click "OK", then "OK" again. Ben Thanks but that didn't do it. Do you have any System Restore points ? The setting might be stored in the Registry, and the Registry files are in the Restore Point. On WinXP, files outside your "My Documents" tree are tracked. Say you normally keep Firefox downloads in C:\Downloads instead of My Documents, then if you use a Restore Point, any files gained or lost in your Downloads, would be affected. If you downloaded files "1" and "2" two days ago, and use a Restore Point from three days ago, files "1" and "2" get erased. Copy files like that to a safe place, before using the Restore Point. Files kept in the "officially blessed" parts of C: are unaffected, so nothing in My Documents gets added or subtracted to match the way it was three days ago. Paul I don't let much use "my documents". For some reason system restore does not work on this machine. It goes through all the motions but right at the end it says it is unable to restore. I guess I could load an old C image but I thought this was a simple fix,. Restore from safe mode. Better check for viruses, too. No telling what websites your dog was visiting. |
dog ate my desktop
On Tue, 26 Dec 2017 17:57:04 +0000, "J. P. Gilliver (John)"
wrote: In message , Paul writes: [] On WinXP, files outside your "My Documents" tree are tracked. Say you normally keep Firefox downloads [] Restore Point. Files kept in the "officially blessed" parts of C: are unaffected, so nothing in My Documents gets added or subtracted to match the way it was three days ago. Paul Are you saying _everything_ else - or maybe everything else on C: - gets tracked, and potentially restored (synced)? This must make for a huge tracking area (if for example you [or the system] delete a few feature films). Acronis images the C: every Monday night and incremental more often than that. All the more reason not to store "data" there. That is pretty much all on other drives. C: is just software. That way the data can be backed up with a simple copy and the stuff that needs the Windows infrastructure gets imaged. |
dog ate my desktop
On Tue, 26 Dec 2017 14:12:23 -0600, Paul in Houston TX
wrote: wrote: On Tue, 26 Dec 2017 02:22:05 -0500, Paul wrote: wrote: On Mon, 25 Dec 2017 21:37:40 -0500, Ben Myers wrote: On 12/25/2017 8:12 PM, wrote: XP SP3 My dog was playing with my keyboard or mouse and now the text under my icons seems to be reversed. It has the background color box under it and it is transparent when selected. It was the other way. What option fixes that. Open "Control Panel", double-click "System", click on the "Advanced" tab and in the "Performance" box, click "Settings". Then on the "Visual Effects" tab, select "Custom", then find and uncheck "Use drop shadows for icon labels on the desktop". Click "OK", then "OK" again. Ben Thanks but that didn't do it. Do you have any System Restore points ? The setting might be stored in the Registry, and the Registry files are in the Restore Point. On WinXP, files outside your "My Documents" tree are tracked. Say you normally keep Firefox downloads in C:\Downloads instead of My Documents, then if you use a Restore Point, any files gained or lost in your Downloads, would be affected. If you downloaded files "1" and "2" two days ago, and use a Restore Point from three days ago, files "1" and "2" get erased. Copy files like that to a safe place, before using the Restore Point. Files kept in the "officially blessed" parts of C: are unaffected, so nothing in My Documents gets added or subtracted to match the way it was three days ago. Paul I don't let much use "my documents". For some reason system restore does not work on this machine. It goes through all the motions but right at the end it says it is unable to restore. I guess I could load an old C image but I thought this was a simple fix,. Restore from safe mode. Better check for viruses, too. No telling what websites your dog was visiting. I did see WWW.HOTBITCHES.COM in my browsing history. ;-) I swear it wasn't me. |
dog ate my desktop
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On Tue, 26 Dec 2017 14:12:23 -0600, Paul in Houston TX wrote: Restore from safe mode. Better check for viruses, too. No telling what websites your dog was visiting. I did see WWW.HOTBITCHES.COM in my browsing history. ;-) I swear it wasn't me. That's what the dog was viewing, before he fell on the keyboard. Paul |
dog ate my desktop
In message , Shadow
writes: On Tue, 26 Dec 2017 17:57:04 +0000, "J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote: In message , Paul writes: [] On WinXP, files outside your "My Documents" tree are tracked. Say you normally keep Firefox downloads [] Restore Point. Files kept in the "officially blessed" parts of C: are unaffected, so nothing in My Documents gets added or subtracted to match the way it was three days ago. Paul Are you saying _everything_ else - or maybe everything else on C: - gets tracked, and potentially restored (synced)? This must make for a huge tracking area (if for example you [or the system] delete a few feature films). They have another record in the NTFS stream and also various in the registry. Long after you deleted the original files. Yes, it's there for forensic purposes. What else ? []'s I wasn't in tinfoil-hat mode - just more surprised at the storage involved. From what is said above, if you deleted a few feature films, then unless you were storing them in an "officially blessed" area, invoking a Restore Point would magically restore them; I was just thinking that, if true, this implies a backup storage area as big as your disc (or maybe half as big), which seems unlikely, -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf … too popular actually to be any good. - Alison Graham in Radio Times 2-8 February 2013 |
dog ate my desktop
J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
In message , Paul writes: [] On WinXP, files outside your "My Documents" tree are tracked. Say you normally keep Firefox downloads [] Restore Point. Files kept in the "officially blessed" parts of C: are unaffected, so nothing in My Documents gets added or subtracted to match the way it was three days ago. Paul Are you saying _everything_ else - or maybe everything else on C: - gets tracked, and potentially restored (synced)? This must make for a huge tracking area (if for example you [or the system] delete a few feature films). One of the MVPs wrote a web page with the details of what WinXP System Restore tracks/adds/subtracts. https://web.archive.org/web/20060413...:80/index.html https://web.archive.org/web/20060311...esfolders.html List of folders that System Restores does NOT Monitor in Windows XP ... %personaldocuments% == Probably means %userprofile%\My Documents but not sure. I only noticed this, when I lost a couple files out of C:\Downloads after using System Restore. If you use SR from normal OS mode, it's reversible. If you do System Restore from Safe Mode, it cannot be undone (do a backup first!). Paul |
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