[RESOLVED] lost my "luna" desktop

[Ferris]

on right mouse click > properties > appearance, the "windows xp style" option is no longer umm.. an option ... in the windows and buttons box, all that remains is windows classic style.

how do i get it back?

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"you can tune a PC, but you can't tuna fish"

[DJSEARCHING]

Try looking at the themes tab.Does that indicate windows xp,or xp(modified)?

[Ferris]

think i found the answer. partially.


in the resources > themes folder i have
2 files, luna1.theme and window1.theme. they must have got corrupted as i changed the filenames to the above from "luna~1.th" etc

going deeper into the next folder in that dir, "luna" i have a file "luna~1".ms. i think the file extension is wrong. Can someone please advise me what this file should be called?

thanks

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"you can tune a PC, but you can't tuna fish"

[Darren Wilson]

the file is called luna.msstyles & in the Shell dir there are 3 other Dir's each containing one file called shellstyle.dll

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FINALLY, Rocco HAS COME BACK to Win-Driverssssss......
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[Ferris]

thanks Darren, renaming the file did the trick.

now if only i could get my damn Creative GeForce 2MX to work with XPPro life would be so much easier :-/

(tried loads of detonators inc 21.xx, too many blue screens of death and random resets to make the OS workable. it will load under F8 > enable VGA but crashed on next reboot after new screen res is set)

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"you can tune a PC, but you can't tuna fish"

[Darren Wilson]

<font face="Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, Geneva" size="2">Originally posted by Ferris:
thanks Darren, renaming the file did the trick.

now if only i could get my damn Creative GeForce 2MX to work with XPPro life would be so much easier :-/

(tried loads of detonators inc 21.xx, too many blue screens of death and random resets to make the OS workable. it will load under F8 > enable VGA but crashed on next reboot after new screen res is set)

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Seen this a few times and it was that AGP4X was enabled in the BIOs. Disable it and the problems ceased.


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FINALLY, Rocco HAS COME BACK to Win-Driverssssss......
Let the Boobies hit the floor

[Ferris]

never even thought of that, and well, it has worked so far! now for the final hurdle.

i removed ACPI from device manager > hardware > computer and changed it to Standard PC as i thought it might have been linked to my blue screen crashes. Win2KPro seems stable now i`ve disabled the AGPx4 in the Bios, but i want to re-enable ACPI, but can't seem to uninstall/remove "Standard PC" or update the driver to ACPI again.

any ideas Darren? and a million thanks for the previous tip.

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"you can tune a PC, but you can't tuna fish"

[Darren Wilson]

Rolling back from changing to Standard PC back to ACPI is nigh on impossible as you are not given the option (unlike disabling ACPI).

I still run mine with ACPI disabled with no problems. Until ACPI matures a lot more and Microsoft & the OEM manufacturers sort out the niggles in it, I would stick to the Standard PC setup.

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FINALLY, Rocco HAS COME BACK to Win-Driverssssss......
Let the Boobies hit the floor