Notepad and Wordpad oddities
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From: Db on 29 May 2010 12:45 not sure why your safe mode would mess things up. perhaps, this is a clue to another issue with the o.s. booting in safe mode simply loads the core system files while third party programs and services are disabled. -- -- 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:htpocp$i65$1(a)news.eternal-september.org... > > "Db" <databaseb~@hotmail.com> wrote in message > news:69F809BC-39ED-4CF9-907E-CCDC3A15C4B5(a)microsoft.com... >> >> safe mode is a diagnostic >> mode and not a dangerous >> mode. > > "Safe Mode" _ALWAYS_ screws up my window/folder settings, among other > things - like rearranging custom desktop icons. It switches from separate > window settings to a mix of "some" separate window settings and some "all > the same" settings. It scraps the sizes of scores if not hundreds of > windows I had set individually over a period of months. _ALWAYS_. > Setting things back to "separate settings mode" does NOT put everything > back. (It does leave the custom size of the settings buffer the same for > some reason.) > > Whoever wrote the "Safe Mode" routines decided user settings must not be > maintained if they don't use all MS original settings, modes and > arrangements. This has run true for many iterations of XP Pro and I think > some previous versions. > >> since the ~pads are normal >> in safe mode, > > Let me reword what I meant when I said "after the start in 'Safe Mode'... > the characters are back to normal" with emphasis on the word "after." > > The entire color scheme is different in "safe Mode." The whole menu bar > is black on white instead of black on gray as it is in normal mode, so > "Safe Mode" _shows_ me nothing at all. The characters are back to normal > after the start in "Safe Mode" -and- rebooting to normal mode. > > Thanks > >> DatabaseBen, Retired Professional >> >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >> This NNTP newsgroup is evolving to: >> >> http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/default.aspx >> >> >> "JimL" <invalid(a)invalid.inv> wrote in message >> news:htnd58$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 >>>>> >>> >>> > >
From: JimL on 29 May 2010 17:14
"Db" <databaseb~@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:C7F37B11-F684-46F5-81E8-5D2CA24AE692(a)microsoft.com... > > not sure why your > safe mode would mess > things up. > > perhaps, this is a clue > to another issue with > the o.s. "My" safe mode has covered 3 separate machines over several years with separate factory installed OSs. JimL |