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346235 2005-04-18 01:44:00 Hi guys :).
A friend from out of town dropped off his computer - Compaq Presario,1.8 ghz,256 mb ram,40 gig hdd.
Unfortunately somebody had, had a play with it while he was out of town, they had networked it to their lappy, which was infected wtih a virus which is known to spread via mapped drives and network shares (Win32.Parite/Pinfi), in turn infecting his system etc... Anyway i have dealt with the virus no probs.
However (I don't know if this is virus related?), i noticed that when logging off and reaching the welcome screen, the bottom button(red), which normally says "Turn off computer" - says "Turn off Music". The system will however turn off normally with the button, its just that the description is wrong...(which annoys me thoroughly ;) ).
Can anybody tell me where i can change this back (presume its a reg. edit) to read what it should? I have had a good search but haven't found anything regarding this? Any help appreciated, thanks.
As a side note there are no programs installed that could/should affect this either, also this computer has never been connected to the net (until now to do the virus updates etc... which i have done), so the only other possiblity is its somethig off the lappy they copied over maybe?

I have tried using SFC, cleaned it out with Spybot just in case (which wasn't nescessary as it hadn't been online though).

Finally i would use/try a repair with the recovery discs - however he didn't make any, so i am going to do that too (make the recovery discs), but i would like to sort this out first, and really it seems to be running well now, just this niggle.

Cheers
J ZEP (336)
346236 2005-04-18 02:42:00 I haven't come across this, but my first thoughts are to change the Windows Xp theme (under display properties). Restart , then return the theme to windows XP or classic.

Windows may then sort itself out, or you may even have a modified theme. Worth a crack?
pheonix (36)
346237 2005-04-18 02:47:00 Not 100% sure on this but I think I have seen this before.
Check and see what the computer name is in the System Properties because from memory when I saw this it had "Turn off computer name "
Don't know how it got to be like this though?? Maybe a free program from the net??
CYaBro (73)
346238 2005-04-18 03:40:00 Thanks guys, i had tried changing the xp theme to classic and back already and also knew it wasn't the computers name either..., so i didn't check the properties again (cause i knew the puter name).

However Cyabro - you were close enough :thumbs: - it was actually the computer ""Description" i.e he uses this computer for his "Music" composing etc... so they obviously put that in description from day one,lol.
Cheers CYaBro ;) , one less thing to worry about (i was pretty sure it wasn't Virus related or 3rd party program as he hadn't been online) another handy thing to know :D .
J ZEP (336)
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