Cleartype in XP quit working ?

[Valhalla1]

When I first installed xp cleartyped worked great.. then someone posted a link to some hacked logonui.exe files for XP so you can have a cool/sexy logon screen instead of the default. well I put one on, and rebooted and then the "boxes" around the desktop item's name were a different color (before they were transparent and blended into the background), and cleartype is broke. I disable it, re-enable it, cant see the difference.

I put the original logonui.exe back and rebooted and same problem, tried re-enabling cleartype and same problem. also I did go to a page on microsoft.com that "configures/tweaks" cleartype for you, but i dont think that was the problem

any ideas

 

[c0rv1d43]

Hi,

This isn't the first report I've seen of someone having problems after performing one of those popular logonui.exe replacements. This is very interesting. There must be more to this little gizmo than meets the eye. It sounds as though you used one of the ready-made logonui.exe files -- or did you "roll your own"? There's a script incorporated into the executable, of course, and I suspect that it's not being recompiled correctly (perhaps with the wrong references) and that's why so many different issues are being reported. There's a common theme to this stuff. People say that restoring the original logonui.exe file doesn't fix the problem. That would seem to indicate that the logonui.exe file is writing something inappropriate to the registry, no?

If anyone is motivated to look into the problem one way to start would be to export the registry on a previously untouched WinXP install, perform the logonui.exe switcheroo, then expert the registry again and perform a file comparison on the registry exports. Lotta work. But I've been up to my *ss in alligators for a while, and I'm too lazy to do it right now. I hope someone will do it for the common good.

In the meantime, I'd suggest that people think long and hard before doing this on anything other than a play machine. If it's a play machine, heck just wipe it and start over. All my machines are involved in heavy work loads right now, and I just can't afford the trouble.

In a way it's kind of a funny thing. Microsoft has put such a heavy emphasis on appearance in this OS. They might have known that people would want to be able to customize all of the appearance features. It's unfortunate that people are screwing up their systems to just change the appearance of the logon screen. Doesn't seem appropriate somehow, especially considering how solid the OS is generally.

- Collin

 

[Valhalla1]

yeah I definately regret that crap now.. another thing, when I installed it I could tell everything was just flaky. when you logged on, or locked the workstation, it would very SLOOOWLY redraw the screen and lock/logoff.. not instant like the original.

however I replaced the original and that problem seems to be fixed. its just cleartype is totally busted