After booting Inactive Title Bar font is changed to BOLD

[franswes]

I like the text on the icons of inactive programs in the taskbar to be
in normal ( I mean "non-bold"). This has been the case for years.
However recently the text is in Bold. The same applies to the clock in
the toolbar.

I have found how to reset this to normal via Display-Advanced-Inactive
Title Bar properties. This works OK. However when I re-boot the font
is back to BOLD. I have found and tried the Taskbar repairtoolPlus in
Kelly's Korner, it does fix the problem for the ongoing session,
however after re-booting I am back to BOLD.

In Safe Mode the same problem happens.

It looks as if "something" is re-setting the font settings I have
chosen. And it appears that this "something" is also active in safe
mode. Idea's anybody?

Thank you

 

[ju.c]

The changes you make are not saved. To save them you need to
save your theme. The data for themes is stored in a text file, with
the extension .theme, not in the registry.


ju.c

 

[franswes]

The changes you make are not saved. To save them you need to
save your theme. The data for themes is stored in a text file, with
the extension .theme, not in the registry.

ju.c

Ju.c, thanks for your explanation. When I change Bold to Normal, I
press 2 times OK to exit the dialogue boxes. I also tried "Apply".
Normally this saves the change, I would have thought. How am I
supposed to save this in the .theme file? Or is the problem that XP
somehow faile to save this file automatically?

Anyway, I will start looking for the .theme file

Frans

 

[ju.c]

Right-click the Desktop and on the "Themes" tab click the "Save-As..." button.


ju.c

 

[franswes]

Right-click the Desktop and on the "Themes" tab click the "Save-As..." button.

ju.c

All the above did not work. For the record, the following did solve
the problem:

I replaced the file themeui.dll with a backup copy. This did not fix
the problem, I just add this for completeness

I then ran these registry fixes:
restorethemes.reg from Kellys Korner
visualstyle.reg, I believe aloo from Kellys Korner

After re-booting the problem had disappeared