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All right, I posted this to usenet, to no avail. Short of
re-installing Windows (I was trying to avoid what has become an
annual ritual) what can I do?
I noticed that checkboxes inside a list (such as in the Windows XP
Disk Cleanup utility) are all invisible! I can toggle them but the
checkmarks never appear. Checkboxes by themselves in a dialog work
OK; just the ones contained in a list have invisible checkmarks.
To illustrate, see http://unicorn.us.com/alex/nocheckmark.gif
(a small 19K screen capture showing the problem).
This picture shows the Windows XP Disk Cleanup utility. The
'Temporary Internet Files' box is checked, but the checkmark is
invisible. You can tell it's checked because the total amount of
disk space gained is shown as 866 KB, just like that checkbox. I
can click on any of the boxes and the total at the bottom will
change, but no checkmarks appear.
Observations:
* This happens on ANY program that has checkboxes in lists (such as
SpyBot S&D advanced settings, when I first noticed this problem).
* Three different spyware utilities (AdAware, SpyBot S&D,
SpySweeper) indicate that I'm clean.
* A registry cleaner (TweakNow RegCleaner) didn't help.
* When I reboot into safe mode, everything works fine!
* But then when I reboot back into normal mode, the problem
reappears.
* Re-installing SP2 on WinP didn't fix anything.
* Microsoft Knowledge Base suggests that I may have the background
color set the same as the foreground. This isn't the case.
Themes are disabled, and I'm using the default Windows Standard
color scheme.
The only thing I remember doing prior to noticing this, was to
install the K-Lite codec pack, with the default settings. I can't
imagine why that would create a problem. Uninstalling it didn't
help. System restore is disabled on this machine. In any case, I
wouldn't know when the problem began, only when I firt noticed.
Is there a corrupted DLL somewhere? Does anybody have any idea what
could be wrong? This problem makes many programs un-usable.
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