Notepad and Wordpad oddities
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From: JimL on 25 May 2010 11:36 Running XP Pro SP3 with up to this minute updates, on Thinkpad T60P. I have suddenly started seeing the menu bars in Notepad and Wordpad showing characters in black on white instead of black on pale gray. Everything else in the bar is pale gray. The white background appears on at the characters themselves, making little white boxes around the words. Are there any kind of controls for this kind of thing? Oddities bug me because with my luck whatever causes them will cause something else. JimL
From: Db on 25 May 2010 12:27 you can double check the issue in safe mode. -- -- db���`�...�><)))�> DatabaseBen, Retired Professional ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This NNTP newsgroup is evolving to: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/default.aspx "JimL" <invalid(a)invalid.inv> wrote in message news:htgqov$eqp$1(a)news.eternal-september.org... > Running XP Pro SP3 with up to this minute updates, on Thinkpad T60P. > > I have suddenly started seeing the menu bars in Notepad and Wordpad > showing characters in black on white instead of black on pale gray. > Everything else in the bar is pale gray. The white background appears on > at the characters themselves, making little white boxes around the words. > Are there any kind of controls for this kind of thing? > > Oddities bug me because with my luck whatever causes them will cause > something else. > > JimL >
From: JimL on 27 May 2010 23:26 I don't know what I was supposed to check, but after the start in Safe Mode [dangerous mode] the characters are back to normal. I'm still putting back my custom windows but the characters are right. Someone would chew me out if I did, so I won't say how dumb it is for Safe mode to destroy settings. JimL "Db" <databaseb~@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:5457BBA5-7643-433A-B6C3-082FFFD48BB9(a)microsoft.com... > > you can double check the > issue in safe mode. > > -- > -- > db���`�...�><)))�> > > DatabaseBen, Retired Professional > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > This NNTP newsgroup is evolving to: > > http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/default.aspx > > > "JimL" <invalid(a)invalid.inv> wrote in message > news:htgqov$eqp$1(a)news.eternal-september.org... >> Running XP Pro SP3 with up to this minute updates, on Thinkpad T60P. >> >> I have suddenly started seeing the menu bars in Notepad and Wordpad >> showing characters in black on white instead of black on pale gray. >> Everything else in the bar is pale gray. The white background appears on >> at the characters themselves, making little white boxes around the words. >> Are there any kind of controls for this kind of thing? >> >> Oddities bug me because with my luck whatever causes them will cause >> something else. >> >> JimL >>
From: Db on 28 May 2010 11:41 safe mode is a diagnostic mode and not a dangerous mode. since the ~pads are normal in safe mode, then this implies the system files are not corrupted. so to begin your trouble- shooting I would initiate a clean boot and see if the issue is resolved in normal mode. -- -- db���`�...�><)))�> DatabaseBen, Retired Professional ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This NNTP newsgroup is evolving to: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/default.aspx "JimL" <invalid(a)invalid.inv> wrote in message news:htnd58$vco$1(a)news.eternal-september.org... > I don't know what I was supposed to check, but after the start in Safe > Mode [dangerous mode] the characters are back to normal. I'm still > putting back my custom windows but the characters are right. > > Someone would chew me out if I did, so I won't say how dumb it is for Safe > mode to destroy settings. > > JimL > > "Db" <databaseb~@hotmail.com> wrote in message > news:5457BBA5-7643-433A-B6C3-082FFFD48BB9(a)microsoft.com... >> >> you can double check the >> issue in safe mode. >> >> -- >> -- >> db���`�...�><)))�> >> >> DatabaseBen, Retired Professional >> >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >> This NNTP newsgroup is evolving to: >> >> http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/default.aspx >> >> >> "JimL" <invalid(a)invalid.inv> wrote in message >> news:htgqov$eqp$1(a)news.eternal-september.org... >>> Running XP Pro SP3 with up to this minute updates, on Thinkpad T60P. >>> >>> I have suddenly started seeing the menu bars in Notepad and Wordpad >>> showing characters in black on white instead of black on pale gray. >>> Everything else in the bar is pale gray. The white background appears >>> on at the characters themselves, making little white boxes around the >>> words. Are there any kind of controls for this kind of thing? >>> >>> Oddities bug me because with my luck whatever causes them will cause >>> something else. >>> >>> JimL >>> > >
From: JimL on 28 May 2010 20:50
"Db" <databaseb~@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:69F809BC-39ED-4CF9-907E-CCDC3A15C4B5(a)microsoft.com... > > safe mode is a diagnostic > mode and not a dangerous > mode. "Safe Mode" _ALWAYS_ screws up my window/folder settings, among other things - like rearranging custom desktop icons. It switches from separate window settings to a mix of "some" separate window settings and some "all the same" settings. It scraps the sizes of scores if not hundreds of windows I had set individually over a period of months. _ALWAYS_. Setting things back to "separate settings mode" does NOT put everything back. (It does leave the custom size of the settings buffer the same for some reason.) Whoever wrote the "Safe Mode" routines decided user settings must not be maintained if they don't use all MS original settings, modes and arrangements. This has run true for many iterations of XP Pro and I think some previous versions. > since the ~pads are normal > in safe mode, Let me reword what I meant when I said "after the start in 'Safe Mode'... the characters are back to normal" with emphasis on the word "after." The entire color scheme is different in "safe Mode." The whole menu bar is black on white instead of black on gray as it is in normal mode, so "Safe Mode" _shows_ me nothing at all. The characters are back to normal after the start in "Safe Mode" -and- rebooting to normal mode. Thanks > DatabaseBen, Retired Professional > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > This NNTP newsgroup is evolving to: > > http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/default.aspx > > > "JimL" <invalid(a)invalid.inv> wrote in message > news:htnd58$vco$1(a)news.eternal-september.org... >> I don't know what I was supposed to check, but after the start in Safe >> Mode [dangerous mode] the characters are back to normal. I'm still >> putting back my custom windows but the characters are right. >> >> Someone would chew me out if I did, so I won't say how dumb it is for >> Safe mode to destroy settings. >> >> JimL >> >> "Db" <databaseb~@hotmail.com> wrote in message >> news:5457BBA5-7643-433A-B6C3-082FFFD48BB9(a)microsoft.com... >>> >>> you can double check the >>> issue in safe mode. >>> >>> -- >>> -- >>> db���`�...�><)))�> >>> >>> DatabaseBen, Retired Professional >>> >>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >>> This NNTP newsgroup is evolving to: >>> >>> http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/default.aspx >>> >>> >>> "JimL" <invalid(a)invalid.inv> wrote in message >>> news:htgqov$eqp$1(a)news.eternal-september.org... >>>> Running XP Pro SP3 with up to this minute updates, on Thinkpad T60P. >>>> >>>> I have suddenly started seeing the menu bars in Notepad and Wordpad >>>> showing characters in black on white instead of black on pale gray. >>>> Everything else in the bar is pale gray. The white background appears >>>> on at the characters themselves, making little white boxes around the >>>> words. Are there any kind of controls for this kind of thing? >>>> >>>> Oddities bug me because with my luck whatever causes them will cause >>>> something else. >>>> >>>> JimL >>>> >> >> |