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Black Screen of Death!!! ::Evil music::

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Ok now when I uninstalled ThemeXP from my computer it changed my background to black with black text and made all the program and menus black, ,as you can guess this sucks.

Now in figuring out how to change it all back I finally decided to do a system restore but I cannot find the Help button on the menu because I also inadvertantly change the start menu to the crappy XP one.
So first: Can anyone give other advice?
Can someone post a picture of how the default win xp start menu looks?

thx
 
Yes it is which is also confusing.

Is it possible to use system restore while not in Windows?

Like as a startup option or command prompt?
 
Wow, that must suck.

Did you try playing with your monitors brightness & other settings to see if you can make menus visable at all?
 
Im assuming you tried vga mode from the boot menu & it doesnt help.

Im new to xp, Ive had it for a week, Ill see if I can find anything to help.
 


<< Wow, that must suck.

Did you try playing with your monitors brightness & other settings to see if you can make menus visable at all? >>



I did and nope not a thing, I'm assuming the text is the same shade as the menus and such, cause I can see icons but no file names and I can also see whatever is in my web brower
 
This may help.

To start the computer and use the Recovery Console
From the Setup CD-ROM

Insert the Setup compact disc (CD) and restart the computer. If prompted, select any options required to boot from the CD.
When the text-based part of Setup begins, follow the prompts; choose the repair or recover option by pressing R.
If you have a dual-boot or multiple-boot system, choose the installation that you need to access from the Recovery Console.
When prompted, type the Administrator password.
At the system prompt, type Recovery Console commands; type help for a list of commands, or help commandname for help on a specific command.
To exit the Recovery Console and restart the computer, type exit.

If you have already installed the Recovery Console

During Startup, select Recovery Console from the startup options menu.
If you have a dual-boot or multiple-boot system, choose the installation that you need to access from the Recovery Console.
When prompted, type the Administrator password.
At the system prompt, type Recovery Console commands; type help for a list of commands, or help commandname for help on a specific command.
To exit the Recovery Console and restart the computer, type exit.
Important

Because the Recovery Console is quite powerful, it is recommended for use only by advanced users or administrators.
 


<< Im assuming you tried vga mode from the boot menu & it doesnt help.

Im new to xp, Ive had it for a week, Ill see if I can find anything to help. >>



yep VGA mode does nothing either
 
The system restore didn't work either 🙁

I would hate to have to reinstall this, any other ideas?
 
on the boot menu choose safe mode with command prompt.

you should be able to read the dos box when your pc starts

type in..... help.... & hit eneter

Scroll down & youll see a color command

im assuming this will change your fonts & other colors

type..... help color
See if any of those number combos get you results
 
Yeah, just tested that myself.
Im trying, 1st time I ever saw that menu.

Youd think with all that info we'd be able to do a scanreg / restore.


Darn Win XP.

Is your start button still green?
 
FINALLY!

boot menu/ safe mode with command promt only

when your in the dos box type:
cd\windows\system32\restore <enter>

Then type:
rstrui.exe <enter>

And this will start system restore.
 
Oh wow that so would have worked if i hadn't tried to fix the problem with booting from the cd and restoring xp, that set my one and only restore point as then
 
Well shyte!

It took me forever to figure out how to do that too.

wonder if we can restore the registry.

Arent all desktop settings in the registry?

If we restore to an older registry, it may fix this.

Ill do a search, the darn scanreg command doesnt work in XP!
 
All i see so far is to select last known good configuration at the bootup options screen.

im assuming you tried that & windows restores the registry back to those black settings assuming those are the colors you want.

right?
 
Right cause XP knows how much I love my black settings 🙂

If you think it will help I could try posting a pic of my desktop to give u a feel for how it is
 
It must be more than just color settings.
cuz when I boot into safe mode, xp doesnt load any of my personal color settings.

It defaults to a black wallpaper & a tan taskbar & start menu.

Youre all black in safe mode too?

Do you have more than one user you can log in as?

And sure if you wanna post pics, ill check em out, more out of curiosity than anything.

I cant believe with all these bumps to the top no XP experts have replied yet.

Ive been running a week & it took me the 1st few days to troubleshoot my shutdown & SB Live problems.

Im just now begining to learn my way around the OS , as you can see.

Well keep trying though. 😉
 
I have an administrator account, but I am the only user and therefore thought I was the administrator but it doesn't accept my password when i try

the picture is at www.sticksville.com/

after the slash i believe its untitled-1.psd

after the slash goes whatever the default that photoshop saves something as, sorry i couldn't do better but i had a hard enough time trying to upload this
 
I can login fine, at the login screen the colors are just hunky dory, its once "my settings" have been activated that it all goes to hell
 
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