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#16
Guest_usetobe_*

Posted 19 June 2005 - 01:58 PM

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Rightclick on your desktop > choose properties > display properties and choose Windows XPstyle.
Click apply and OK.

You have to choose the tab 'display properties', not the tab 'Theme's'.
The tab display properties is the 4th one from left. There will be the ' "windows and buttons" menu in it where you can select Windows Classic or Windows XP-style.
Select Windows XP-style.

If you can't find the Windows XP-style in there -- only the windows classic, tell me afterwards.

#17
dvm5

Posted 19 June 2005 - 02:01 PM

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Actually it's already in Windows XP style....

#18
Guest_usetobe_*

Posted 19 June 2005 - 02:47 PM

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OK , just incase you copy of luna is corrupt , click on this link to download it.

Click here

Unzip it and using windows explorer, move the luna.msstyles which is in the folder you unzipped to this folder: C:\WINDOWS\Resources\Themes\Luna

Don't move it anywhere else except that folder!

When you have moved it, rightclick on your desktop > properties ... and look if Windows XPstyle is now present again. Choose apply and OK.

If not, reboot first, and try again to select Windows XPstyle

#19
dvm5

Posted 19 June 2005 - 02:55 PM

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Still no change at all....

#20
dvm5

Posted 19 June 2005 - 08:14 PM

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Any other ideas for getting rid of this? So far I'm just kind of using active desktop to move an image out from underneath my icons... I guess it looks better, but still, annoyingly imperfect.

#21
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Posted 20 June 2005 - 01:48 AM

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I'll ask some of the techs if they can come up with any ideas.

In the meantime you could try these programs to see if you can change them so as to please the eye,

SillySot Software's Iconoid (Windows, sillyware):
http://www.sillysot.com/
Quote: "Iconoid is a Windows desktop icon manager.
Make icon backgrounds transparent
Select any color for icon backgrounds"

CursorArts' ActivIcons (Windows, freeware):
http://www.cursorarts.com/ca_aifw.html
Quote: "ActivIcons makes it simple to change properties for various icons on your Windows desktop and in Explorer, plus attributes for many other desktop settings. You can save and restore the desktop layout, repair corrupted icons, increase the size of the Windows icon cache to prevent future problems, and much more."

#22
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Posted 20 June 2005 - 02:59 AM

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i was on my friends computer the other day and i pressed Shift + Alt + Print Screen. i think this makes it easy for people with bad sight to see but when i pressed it again to get rid of it he had the same problem. We just restarted the computer and it went so all these solutions people are giving are probably right. I would either not worry about it or format my computer. Being a perfectionist i would probably format :tazz:

#23
dvm5

Posted 20 June 2005 - 04:05 PM

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well seeing as none of those solutions have worked so far, and I'm not willing to reinstall everything just for this... I guess I'm ignoring the problem.

#24
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Posted 20 June 2005 - 07:48 PM

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I have the exact same problem. I know it's not this is not helpful to you but at least you're not alone! I really hope someone can help you and me 'cause I'm the kind of person who likes it when things work well. Just like you, I don't feel it's a huge deal, I would just prefer it if things worked as they are meant to.

Edited by syncro79, 20 June 2005 - 07:54 PM.

#25
dvm5

Posted 20 June 2005 - 08:14 PM

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I have the exact same problem. I know it's not this is not helpful to you but at least you're not alone! I really hope someone can help you and me 'cause I'm the kind of person who likes it when things work well. Just like you, I don't feel it's a huge deal, I would just prefer it if worked as they are meant to.

When did your problem start? Mine was caused either by SpySheriff or other spyware or in my attempts to fix it. Really no telling... the only thing I can think to do at this point is save some stuff on an external, and either a) roll back ungodly far... b) re-install windows c) format and begin again

while clean systems are always pretty, I like my computer like my room, with that nice, lived in feeling.

#26
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Posted 20 June 2005 - 08:28 PM

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I also got the problem from spy sheriff. I am just going to deal with it unless there's an easy fix.

#27
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Posted 20 June 2005 - 08:35 PM

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I also got the problem from spy sheriff. I am just going to deal with it unless there's an easy fix.

Our little problem seems to have stumped the boys on this board, though... which is pretty unfortunate.

I wonder if it had to do with the method for curing Spy Sheriff, I had to play around with the registry concerned with the desktop quite a bit....

then again, maybe it was Sheriff's playing with the desktop... any thoughts?

#28
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Posted 20 June 2005 - 08:45 PM

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OK, if that last advice didn't work you've lost a .dll that makes the .gifs transparent, or a setting has changed somewhere, but I haven't a clue about either. :tazz:

#29
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Posted 20 June 2005 - 09:16 PM

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OK, if that last advice didn't work you've lost a .dll that makes the .gifs transparent, or a setting has changed somewhere, but I haven't a clue about either.

What do you mean by last advice.... there were a lot of suggestions, be more specific please.

#30
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Posted 21 June 2005 - 12:12 AM

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post a HJT log please

#16
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Posted 19 June 2005 - 01:58 PM