up-country_sinclair Posted March 18, 2010 Share Posted March 18, 2010 I turned on my computer yesterday and noticed that the XP theme I had selected months ago had changed. Also, when I turned off the computer I heard the sign off music which I had disabled. There might also be other changes, which I haven't noticed yet Has this ever happened to anyone? I've done a fairly thorough virus and malware search, but didn't come up with anything. Any ideas on what might have happened? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elcent Posted March 18, 2010 Share Posted March 18, 2010 are you on automatic updates? If so this could have triggered the reset to default during a major update. I guess you updated to SP3 since SP2 will stop support in June. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OccamsRazor Posted March 18, 2010 Share Posted March 18, 2010 Besides the automatic update reply above, have you installed any new programs? Sometimes a new program will change the registry and apply defaults. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
up-country_sinclair Posted March 18, 2010 Author Share Posted March 18, 2010 Thanks for your replies. No, I haven't installed MS updates or any new software. However, I did do a registry scan with CC Cleaner. Could that be the culprit? I guess my big concern is that this is the result of a virus of some sort. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OccamsRazor Posted March 18, 2010 Share Posted March 18, 2010 When you used CCLeaner did you just scan or did you let it cleanup also as it possibly could change the registry. You can try eset online virus scanner as one scanner is often not sufficient. www.eset.com/online-scanner Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elcent Posted March 18, 2010 Share Posted March 18, 2010 Thanks for your replies.No, I haven't installed MS updates or any new software. However, I did do a registry scan with CC Cleaner. Could that be the culprit? I guess my big concern is that this is the result of a virus of some sort. Have you saved the old registry settings? If so go back to that one and see if it shows your old settings. What registry cleaner are you using? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welo Posted March 18, 2010 Share Posted March 18, 2010 I doubt that CCleaner has anything to do with it. CCleaner is neither a antivirus program nor a registry tweaker. CCleaner (Crap Cleaner) is a freeware system optimisation tool. CCleaner removes unused and temporary files from your system - allowing it to run faster, more efficiently and giving you more HDD space.source: http://www.softpedia.com/get/Security/Secu.../CCleaner.shtml However, there are some registry related features Registry Cleaning:CCleaner uses an advanced Registry Cleaner to check for problems and inconsistencies. It can check the following: · File Extensions · ActiveX Controls · ClassIDs · ProgIDs · Uninstallers · Shared DLLs · Fonts · Help File references · Application Paths · Icons · Invalid Shortcuts and more... CCleaner should not cause the theme mods applied by some tweaked Windows XP install CDs to be removed. I agree with elcent that the most likely reason is an automatically applied Windows Update that replaced the modified theme component with an updated (original) version. Check whether 'Automatic Updates' is enabled or not (Control Panel). I don't know of any simple way to revert the effect (other than applying the theme patch to the updated system files which is not trivial) welo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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