Don't forget to also check your machine for Spyware. Get Ad-Aware and run it over your system to check. Don't have a URL handy, but a quick search should turn it up.

Wow, that was a long answer lol. Thanks. Someone on another forum gave me the andwer, it was a theme called Forever Blue through Style XP. It is a known problem.
 
Thanks again

I'm gald I could help a potential problem out lol. Sometimes it's worth asking a few different forums.

There's a whole heap of third party ones for XP now, but I was only using ones that were through Style XP, generally I don't use themes, no time for them. I only use Powerdesk Pro which is great for all my menuing. Used to use NextStart which is a brilliant program but a few of the new games don't run very well of it.

This is for the Style XP
 
http://www.tgtsoft.com/
 
And this is for NextStart
 
http://www.winstep.net
 
Just for interest, a lot of Style XP themes will change the colour of the Powerdesk bars which makes a nice change from the boring grey.
 
I very rarely use any windows functions or tools now, Powerdesk does it and better

www.windowblinds.net seems to be a pretty popular one as well. I am not big on installing a bunch of software to change my theme though. I am not sure why windows is so anal about not wanting to change the appearance. I guess its so everyone can see you are using windows as opposed to something else.
 
 

Quote:Thanks belveder, I am off to see some of those now...  
(Just to see how diff. they really can be!)
 

 
* up, Up, UP & Away... & off we go to browse around there, see ya!
 
APK

Far easier to update a single DLL
 
Courtesy of one of the admins of Winbeta.org
 
http://vortex.winbeta.org