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WinXP Home, underlines

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Hello all you tech gurus, here's one that has me stumped: we built a new PC, AMD Athlon 1.2, 256MB RAM and XP (Home). Everything works great, install new apps, it behaves like the 5 that we have done before. This is to replace a Compaq Presario 4910 running Win95 (!) that had many docs & other files that the user wanted brought over. I connected the two by ethernet, and executed the "Files and Settings Transfer Wizard" (as I have done before, but never between Win95 & XP). Everything that we wanted was transferred, BUT now the names of everything: Application names on the desktop, file names in Explorer, appear "underlined". I tried changing the font used, or the "effects" (like turning off the shadow, etc.) but I cannot find where and/or how to change this. Any suggestions, I've not been able to find anything in the MS knowledge base...

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by gigelul

Hi,
Check in Explorer\Folder Options\General - Windows Desktop Update, which style you use. I think that was enabled a custom configuration - "underlines icon titles consistent with my browser settings".

by shiny_topadm

That was it...I never new that setting was there, it was apparantly set as the users preference on the Win95 machine, although the user didn't know about it either! Thanks alot, you've helped this unix guy solve a windows problem/feature...

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