KWSN Orbiting Fortress

JONB

Here is a good one.

Power cut Sad

Re boot

But now I get detailed information as to the version of windows that is running as an inset on the bottom of my desk top! Rolling Eyes

Do any of you pan dimentional hyper beings have any clue what's going on??
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JerWA · Prince Joined: 01 Jan 2007 Posts: 1497 Location: WA, USA

Safe mode? Usually that shows Safe Mode in the corners as well as the version & build of Windows. Reboot and see if it goes away, or if you get a menu when you boot (if so just pick boot normally).
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JONB · Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 6:09 pm Post subject:

No not safe mode! More like a sales display that you might see in a computer store to advertise the operating system. I've talked to some of my more PC literate workmates and they are at a total loss to explain it too.
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JerWA · Prince Joined: 01 Jan 2007 Posts: 1497 Location: WA, USA

Does it show in a screen shot?
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JONB · Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 6:38 pm Post subject:

JONB · Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 8:28 pm Post subject:

JerWA · Prince Joined: 01 Jan 2007 Posts: 1497 Location: WA, USA

Use a free image hosting site like www.imagevenue.com. I use photobucket for most of my stuff, but they limit you to 800x600 resolution (hopefully your desktop is higher than that hehe). Imagevenue allows for up to 1.5MB in file size at any resolution, but you don't have an "account" per-see, you just get some links showing how to use the image.
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Just1vet · Squire Joined: 03 Apr 2007 Posts: 7

I am completly stumped on this. Is it possible that your background image changed?

JONB · Posted: Wed May 16, 2007 8:18 pm Post subject:

No I don't think so. The only change to anything is the new description of the windows version at the lower right hand edge of the desktop. Nothing else has changed!!

One sugestion I have had is some sort of registry error, but I really don't want to mess around in there!!!! Shocked

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KWSN imcrazynow · Posted: Thu May 17, 2007 7:42 am Post subject:

Is this a Windows XP machine with system restore? Or do you have any backups to a date prior to the power outagge you can fall back to? That's one option you can use as long as you haven't done anything to the computer you can't stand to loose since the backup or restore point date.
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And a few that won't update for some reason.

4870 GPU

JONB · Posted: Thu May 17, 2007 11:26 am Post subject:

Tried system restore, a restore point appears on the calender, but the machine will not restore to that point. The next move is to throw it out of a window and go back to an abacus!! #evil

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Frank the Historian · Posted: Thu May 17, 2007 11:54 am Post subject:

Have you tried running scandisk? Perhaps a file system error is causing this. Also, if you have access to SpinRite, I'd try that too. Does the system run ok otherwise? If not, perhaps try using the XP install disk to repair the system.

edit: I just googled "windows version on desktop" and came up with several step-by-step registry edits. Try that before throwing it out the window... Wink

JONB · Posted: Thu May 17, 2007 8:10 pm Post subject:

Isn't google fantastic! Razz

One search and 3 web pages later, and I'm editing the registry. Shocked

One value changed from (1) to (0) and all is now well. Very Happy

Thank you for giving me the right search string for google, none of the versions I tried produced any results.
#ni-1

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Frank the Historian · Posted: Thu May 17, 2007 9:26 pm Post subject:

Glad to hear it! #ni-2