Strange words on desktop WinXP SP2

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Chuck Davis

Computer Club member's IBM ThinkPad.

Member states that beginning yesterday these words appear at the lower right
of the desktop, just above the Notification Area. If I turn off the
Auto-hide the taskbar, they drop down to remain at the bottom of the desktop
area.

The words are:
Windows XP Professional
Build 2600.xpsp_sp2_gdr.050301-1519 (Service Pack 2)

He says that it is annoying. I have never seen this.

Any thoughts?
 
Chuck said:
Computer Club member's IBM ThinkPad.

Member states that beginning yesterday these words appear at the
lower right of the desktop, just above the Notification Area. If I
turn off the Auto-hide the taskbar, they drop down to remain at the
bottom of the desktop area.

The words are:
Windows XP
Professional Build 2600.xpsp_sp2_gdr.050301-1519 (Service Pack 2)

He says that it is annoying. I have never seen this.

Any thoughts?
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Has somebody been playing around with TweakUI??
http://www.msfn.org/board/lofiversion/index.php/t85870.html


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Chuck said:
Computer Club member's IBM ThinkPad.

Member states that beginning yesterday these words appear at the
lower right of the desktop, just above the Notification Area. If I
turn off the Auto-hide the taskbar, they drop down to remain at the
bottom of the desktop area.

The words are:
Windows XP
Professional Build 2600.xpsp_sp2_gdr.050301-1519 (Service Pack 2)

He says that it is annoying. I have never seen this.

Any thoughts?
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http://www.winxptutor.com/paintdesktopversion.htm
 
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm

Read the instructions at the top.

185. Remove Desktop Version from Desktop

desktopversion.reg is the file you want.

TweakUI Show Windows version on desktop

TweakUI
[+] General
UNCheck: Show Windows version on desktop |
Click Apply | Click OK

[[Show windows version on desktop This enables the display of the Windows
version and monitor information (if multiple monitors are installed) in the
corner of every monitor. This is a per-user setting. If you are running an
evaluation version of Windows, the version will always be displayed. If you
have enabled Web content on the desktop, the version will never be
displayed. Changing this setting requires a logoff.]]

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop
Value Name: PaintDesktopVersion
Value Type: REG_DWORD
Value Data: 0 or 1
0 = The version and build number of Windows does not appear on the desktop.
1 = The version and build number of Windows appears on the desktop.

PaintDesktopVersion
HKCU\Control Panel\Desktop
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/Windows/2000/server/reskit/en-us/regentry/81207.asp

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Hope this helps. Let us know.

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MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

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