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Two Little Windows Issues...


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I have the following two problems:

1.The "TurnOff"-button at the users log-on screen (blue thing, WinXP)

has disappeared as a result of me using some forced log-off techniques

in a program I made - they where ment to be used by an earlier windows, and while it served it's purpose - it made the TurnOff button disappear, so even if no user is on, one has to log in just to use that turnoff-option on the start menu...

2.Send to ("Compressed/ZIPed folder") now asks me whether I want to use it (windows built-in zip management) as the default program for handling .zips. I certainly do, but even though I say "yes", it pops up each time again. I think this may be the result of having used powerarchiver, which has since been uninstalled (properly from remove/add programs)

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Hello and :welcome: to Windows Forum.

I note you're on XP so, for your first problem at least, can you use system restore to a time prior to this happening?

Something I always do before making ANY changes to my machines is to do a full system backup so that if something does go awry, I have a good copy to fall back on. Of course, this advice may be no use now but could be in the future.

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Not wishing to be pedantic and this is no help to you at all but, I didn't say "change to the system". My point was that installing any program involves a risk that it won't go successfully. Some programs even set a restore point for you before installing, I prefer doing a backup for this.

Now, what about a repair of the Windows setup? Or, if you want to be sure, a re-install?

Save all your settings and personal stuff first, of course.

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