Re: cmd.exe Minimize, Maximize, Close, and scroll buttons corrupte

The version of shell32.dll on your CD is going to be different if the CD has
a different Service Pack or no SP and you have SP2. And maybe some other
Critical Updates.

I have 5 different versions of shell32.dll on my machine and I do not even
have SP2. 4 of those versions are in uninstall hotfix folders (Critical
Updates).

Microsoft Windows XP Professional Edition RTM has shell32.dll version
6.0.2600.0
Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 1 has shell32.dll version 6.0.2800.1556
Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 has shell32.dll version 6.0.2900.2763

I now see what you mean. That looks like a Classic Start Menu, but the
colors are wrong. The command window is also the wrong colors.

The only idea I have is: What 3rd party theme/customization program did you
install?

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Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

In news:DAD70DD6-822F-43D6-830D-4F2321DB97FE@xxxxxxxxxxxxx,
Chelmite <Chelmite@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> hunted and pecked:
Thanks for the explanation abou the icons.

TweakUI/Repair Icons didn't change anything.

The copy of shell32.dll on the XP CD is different from the one in
C:\WINDOWS\system32. I tried using FileRenameOperations in
HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\, but the expanded
shell32.dll from the CD won't copy to the system32 directory after a
reboot. I also tried PendingFileRenameOperations, but that didn't work
either. I couldn't figure out how to update an in-use file. But, that
may be moot, given the following...

Now that I've gotten into this deeply, I see that I'm talking about the
wrong thing. I meant the arrow icons/characters at the right side of the
start menu. The right arrow/triangle that indicates a submenu has a
picture of a mouse instead of the triangle.

Rather than try to guess what the right word is for those
icons/characters/pictographs, I have pictures of the Start menu at
http://www.geocities.com/cadmanz42/startmenu.jpg, and a picture of the
right side of the cmd window at http://www.geocities.com/cadmanz42/cmd.jpg
Please take a look at these to see what I'm talking about.

BTW...
You also asked about "checksum". It's very useful to run a checksum
against a file to see if it's different from another copy of the file
that's the same size. "sum" is useful for detecting corrupted files.

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