Ugly text on searchbox.....How to 86 it?
Sunday, February 20, 2011 by 2of3 | Discussion: Windows 7
This showed up after the latest windows update (the text "Search programs and files")
Anyone know how to get rid of it?
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Reply #82 Thursday, March 10, 2011 4:42 PM
That's what I've been saying all along. Probably WB is picking it up from non-OEM versions of Win7. How? .... no clue.
Reply #83 Thursday, March 10, 2011 5:38 PM
It is not a big deal with me either but to state that Microsoft caused it when you do not know that for a fact is misleading. On my machine, the updates through Impulse triggered something to make the text appear. I did not do any Windows updates on or around the time it appeared on my machine. This is not an OEM version but it is an update from Vista to Win7 last year. We will most likely never know what caused it but in my case, I know for a fact that it was not a Windows update.
Reply #84 Thursday, March 10, 2011 8:04 PM
Frankief how is what Tom said misleading? He says it is a Microsoft update and you say it is a Stardock update. How is one anymore misleading then the other? Actually there has been more then Tom that has said it was a Microsoft update including myself but I can only base that on my own personal experience. I had no text, installed Microsoft updates and voila! Text appeared.
I agree it is not a big deal so our comments should reflect that as well.
Reply #85 Thursday, March 10, 2011 11:53 PM
The important thing here is....
I'd love to see SKS do that.
Reply #87 Friday, March 11, 2011 7:44 AM
or at least give us font size and style control
Reply #88 Friday, March 11, 2011 7:51 AM
Um....to quote Tom:
THAT is pretty conclusive evidence if you ask me..........perhaps you don`t have 100% control over your MS updates Frankie. It is a possibility anyway.
Mine is an OEM version of Win7....
Reply #89 Friday, March 11, 2011 6:07 PM
What skins are affected? The Aero skins only or all of them. My OEM version shows only the Aero skins with the text and none of the WB's.
Reply #91 Friday, March 11, 2011 6:55 PM
Keep getting this while trying to reply using Opera.
I hate this switching back and forth.
Try again. Are there shared files between WB and Win7. Why it affects some skins on OEM versions but not all on some machines but does affect all on other machines with the OEM versions and does affect all non- OEM versions. This is getting ridiculous.
Reply #94 Friday, March 11, 2011 8:30 PM
Uvah, you must have another problem as I only use Opera and never have a problem.
Reply #96 Saturday, March 12, 2011 7:06 AM
@DaveBax. Didn't have until Opera was updated. Oops ... there goes that update thing again. Just started yesterday when Opera went to 11.0.1 I'm gonna roll it back and see if it still happens.
Reply #97 Saturday, March 12, 2011 7:23 AM
Okay. Did the rollback. Lets see if it worked. Found the problem. Opera has its own version of AdBlock. It was preventing me from commenting the same way it did on Firefox. Now to see if its the same on the update.
Reply #98 Saturday, March 12, 2011 10:40 AM
it's a mystery folks with no apparent consistent pattern to make troubleshooting easy.
Uvah, I think the "jumbled" thing has to do with posting in the forums when more than one person is posting to the same thread at about the same time. safe thing to do is to copy the post before posting.
Reply #100 Saturday, March 12, 2011 3:33 PM
golly, a multi-tasking thread. Is your sub up to date Uvah.
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Reply #81 Thursday, March 10, 2011 10:24 AM
Again let me reiterate, it has nothing to do with Stardock or any Stardock product. My netbook is running Windows 7 Professional 32-bit, and has never had a Stardock product installed on it, yet the text in the search area is there. It is a Micorsoft update that caused this issue to occur, nothing else.
Personally though, I don't see what the big problem is, does not matter to me if the text is there or not.
So all that said, as far as getting rid of it, you can't unless you hack the operating system files I would imagine.