Why isn't anyone answering the questions posted here on XP Theme problems?

Chet
Tue Jul 15 16:07:36 PDT 2008

Of great historical significance to all, "mike perkins"
<debbie@dallas.com> declared on Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:06:40 -0700:

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Don't have any idea what the question was????

This is a peer-to-peer newsgroup on Usenet, perhaps no one knows or you did not supply enough information in your first post.

How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

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mike
Tue Jul 15 16:50:46 PDT 2008

There have been 4 post by different people in the past few days speaking of
the XP theme disappearing after the last MS Update.

It seems to come and go but basically is one form or another of what I've
listed below...

I have ms plus installed but was just using the default XP for my display.
>Last week after an MS Update my display went into a "modified theme" and
>the plus themes as well as the XP theme were no longer available in
>"Display Properties". A system restore corrected this.
> The same thing happened after yesterdays update only this time I cannot
> use the system restore, all attempts have failed.
> Any suggestions.

When I Restarted the XP themes were gone again but they were in the themes
folder. I received an error message stating the theme service was not
running and so I tried to start it in the Computer Management Administrative
Tool in the Control Panel.

I then got Error 998:Invalid access to memory location

"Chet" <cfnewsDO@NOTmchsi.SPAMcom> wrote in message
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> Of great historical significance to all, "mike perkins"
> <debbie@dallas.com> declared on Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:06:40 -0700:
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> Don't have any idea what the question was????
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> This is a peer-to-peer newsgroup on Usenet, perhaps no one knows or you
> did not supply enough information in your first post.
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> How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
> http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
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> hth
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VanguardLH
Wed Jul 16 02:54:18 PDT 2008

mike perkins wrote:

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blank body = blank post

Maybe, because like you, the body of their posts were empty so they
really never did ask a question. The Subject header is an intro, not
the entire message. The body is where you provide details. Your
Subject is far to unfocused, non-detailed, and vague to bother
addressing it with any specific answers.

Ron
Wed Jul 16 04:28:31 PDT 2008

If a question goes unanswered, that generally means no one knows the answer
or can provide a troubleshooting idea.

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Regards

Ron Badour
MS MVP
Windows Desktop Experience


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mike
Wed Jul 16 10:28:48 PDT 2008

My original post body, like the others, listed the specific problem. I
didn't see the need to re-write it.
The first from Chet reply answered the question I posted in the header here.
I just thought that with at least 4 postings of the same problem, coupled
with what seemed to be a good source of topic specific knowledgeable people,
that one of you MS geniuses (and I don't mean that sarcastically) would have
a simple solution or at least a suggestion.
I must admit my ignorance about this forum until Chet kindly pointed it out.
From reading some of the responses here I actually thought that the site was
moderated by MS personnel.


"VanguardLH" <V@nguard.LH> wrote in message
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> mike perkins wrote:
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> blank body = blank post
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> Maybe, because like you, the body of their posts were empty so they
> really never did ask a question. The Subject header is an intro, not
> the entire message. The body is where you provide details. Your
> Subject is far to unfocused, non-detailed, and vague to bother
> addressing it with any specific answers.