a) you could probably use system restore to revert back
to the way your system was before the update, and then go
back to windows update and carefully look at all the
updates to see if one obviously effects display (eg a
display adapter driver)

b) in device manager roll back the display adapter driver

Jamie
www.kitten-x.com

>-----Original Message-----
>After having carried out a number of critical MS updates
my display seems to
>have been corrupted somehow as my taskbar, menu bar,
title bar and some
>dialogue boxes (ie start menu) are now black!
>By selecting different styles from Control Panel/Display
option, it appears
>that the Windows Classic styles are OK.
>Any ideas why this has happened and how I can repair the
XP Styles?
>David Williams
>
>
>.
>

Thanks Jamie system restore did the trick, now I shall have another look at
the updates.
Many thanks
David


"Jamie Kitson" <jamie@_NO_SPAM_kitten-x.com> wrote in message
news:074801c36d77$1f3e2c90$(E-Mail Removed)...
> a) you could probably use system restore to revert back
> to the way your system was before the update, and then go
> back to windows update and carefully look at all the
> updates to see if one obviously effects display (eg a
> display adapter driver)
>
> b) in device manager roll back the display adapter driver
>
> Jamie
> www.kitten-x.com
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >After having carried out a number of critical MS updates
> my display seems to
> >have been corrupted somehow as my taskbar, menu bar,
> title bar and some
> >dialogue boxes (ie start menu) are now black!
> >By selecting different styles from Control Panel/Display
> option, it appears
> >that the Windows Classic styles are OK.
> >Any ideas why this has happened and how I can repair the
> XP Styles?
> >David Williams
> >
> >
> >.
> >