Desktop Items and Application's Buttons

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Hi, I'm the only person that uses my computer, XP Pro, I use the computer admin. acct. and I've got two problems that have just occurred and I can think of anything that I did that would have caused them. I did changed explorer.exe, but have reverted back to the backup that I made before I did anything to it

The first is "my computer" will not stay renamed. I can rename it, but soon as I restart it will be back to my computer. The recyle bin though, stays rename. Also with desktop items, my selected icons for the recycle bin can be changed, but get reset to default on reboot

The second problem is with various, non-MS applications. The buttons at the top (File, edit, view, etc...), on mouseover the background of just the text turns white and stays white. On click, the entire button colour turns white and stays white. Visual annoyance at best, but it didn't used to do it....and, as before, only with non-MS applications (word, excel, etc...). Some programs it does this with is Adobe Photoshop, my animated gif maker, and everything else non-MS

Any suggestions are welcomed, I've tried everything short of formatting and starting from there.
 
Hi,

Your IP addresses for the two cards may be conflicting. See:

Creating a Bridge with Two Internal Adapters on a Windows XP Internet
Connection Sharing Host Does Not Work
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=309640

For further questions, you should take this up in the networking group here:

news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windowsxp.network_web

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Windows
Windows isn't rocket science! That's my other hobby!

Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone
 
Hi Art,

Ignore the previous response, it was meant for another question. I would
first verify the system file integrity. Start/run "sfc /scannow" and allow
the system file checker to do its job. Alternately, you may need to update
or reinstall the video drivers.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Windows
Windows isn't rocket science! That's my other hobby!

Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone
 
Did the file checker. After it was finished nothing else came up. During the process though, I got aksed numerous times to insert 1) XP-professional CD-rom and 2) XP service pack 1 CD-riom. Not having either of these available to me at this point in time I just hit cancel. The reason it wanted these cd-roms was because of the dllcache folder. When I was doing my mod, I renamed the explorer.exe to something else so it wouldn't just revert back after restart. Also, in dllcache I renamed calc.exe because for some reason my keyboard, one of the special buttons, would start the calculator and I wanted that button for another function

The numver of times that it asked for my cd's makes me wonder, for just changing 2 files in that folder it wanted to do more then just check over each file once...
 
Restarted. My computer, renamed before restart, is back to my computer and the startmenu button was restored (the thing I was playing around with explorer.exe for)
 
Hi,

The changes could have corrupted other files as well, though it's difficult
to be certain. Find the CD, and check for a hidden ServicePackFiles folder
in the \Windows directory.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Windows
Windows isn't rocket science! That's my other hobby!

Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone
 
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