I am running XP home, big p3 system, 2 gig ram, all the normal stuff.... I just have a problem.
My wife shut off the computer this afternoon, and the monitor, when I returned 6 hours later it was still putting updates onto my computer. Nothing wrong, went out for a smoke, and came back and it had shut down by itself. So I turned it on, it had a login screen up after loading the start-up. I click okay, and windows opens as usual.
When I click on my start menu, I now have a blue Windows XP Home bar going up the left side of my start menu. I'm a little OCD about the way I like my computer set-up and I'm getting quite frustrated. I am using classic view mode, as I find it more pleasing for myself. I have never had this blue bar on the start menu before, and it is driving me nuts...Sorry this is a waste of most of your time, but it's driving me nuts.
As well, when I go to shut down or restart my pc, instead of a blue screen that comes up with "standby, shutdown, restart" it now has a classic looking window come up with a drop down menu with shutdown, restart, standby. This is also different, I have never had these problems for that past 4 years on my pc..
Any and all help is much appreciated, thank you.
B.
My wife shut off the computer this afternoon, and the monitor, when I returned 6 hours later it was still putting updates onto my computer. Nothing wrong, went out for a smoke, and came back and it had shut down by itself. So I turned it on, it had a login screen up after loading the start-up. I click okay, and windows opens as usual.
When I click on my start menu, I now have a blue Windows XP Home bar going up the left side of my start menu. I'm a little OCD about the way I like my computer set-up and I'm getting quite frustrated. I am using classic view mode, as I find it more pleasing for myself. I have never had this blue bar on the start menu before, and it is driving me nuts...Sorry this is a waste of most of your time, but it's driving me nuts.
As well, when I go to shut down or restart my pc, instead of a blue screen that comes up with "standby, shutdown, restart" it now has a classic looking window come up with a drop down menu with shutdown, restart, standby. This is also different, I have never had these problems for that past 4 years on my pc..
Any and all help is much appreciated, thank you.
B.
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