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re: windows rt tip - how to recreate a recovery partition

Rick Mansfield — Thu, 16 May 2013 13:45:38 GMT

By the way, I did not have a saved copy of the recover partition other than what was on my USB thumb drive, which is what I copied the files from.

re: windows rt tip - how to recreate a recovery partition

Rick Mansfield — Thu, 16 May 2013 13:32:28 GMT

I think that after playing with this some more, somehow Windows RT is simply not seeing the new recovery partition I made -AS- a recovery partition. It's as if it's being ignored. Any ideas?

re: paint desktop version registry key

MokikkiDoesTheSloppySwish-YOU CAN CHANGE THE FONT COLOR IF — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 12:08:01 GMT

Thanks for keeping the PaintDesktopVersion key alive and verifying Windows 7 compatibility.

There is a fairly simple method to invert the CSD lettering font from default white to black if you momentarily select white(RGB #FFFFFF) for a background color instead of a wallpaper.

Apply the setting and verify your paintedesktopversion text has inverted black on solid white. The registry key didn't reflect the change and other lighter colors tested today also inverted the text to solid black (RGB #000000)

Return to the desktop personalization menus and reinsert your wallpaper instead of the just recently selected solid white background.

Most likely, the text will remain black against any image including your heavily white architecture pic and has been doing so for me since XP and my uploaded pic was verifies it working on 2012 Server DC edition. ( I was successfully displaying and inverting the info even in 2012's basic mode before installing the experience pack and loading themes service). But it doesn't seem to tatoo onto my installation of Metro.

Refer to the pic for Lego level instructions

uploadpic.org/v.php

Reapplying any saved themes made prior to this change has typically reset the CSD version text back to the white font we just worked over.

I loathe speaking in absolutes about any Windows configuration tip since there are multiple methods to accomplish even the narrowest of tasks.

Maybe someone else can take the time to snapshot the system registry before and after to determine which registry values are getting flipped when the font color gets inverted.

re: 8 things about windows 8: windows key + prt sc

Krisie McCallum — Sat, 09 Mar 2013 16:27:01 GMT

Thank you so much! I've been trying to figure this out and your post was extremely helpful =)

re: windows rt tip - how to recreate a recovery partition

John — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 07:05:18 GMT

Could someone share their recovery files with me, I don't have the partition or the recovery files on USB to restore.

re: 8 things about windows 8: advanced search

Attila — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 19:37:22 GMT

I also struggle with finding files in Windows 8. It was a simple process in Win7. However in Win8 only applications are brought up as you just described above for simple searching. Files fail to show up in search results and I can't find out why.

Interestingly in Libraries (Explorer) only the the first four menues are indicated on the upper left menu bar, the "Search" menu fails to show up. A mistery or what the heck ?

re: windows rt tip - how to recreate a recovery partition

Dan Rey — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 19:00:57 GMT

Did you create a FAT32 partition and restore the recovery files?

re: windows rt tip - how to recreate a recovery partition

Dan Rey — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 18:59:42 GMT

Marco - just shrink the partition and then recreate a recovery partition so you can restore the files you backed up. I blogged about this and tested it on a Surface RT.

re: lorem ipsum and another microsoft word trick discovered

Chris Long — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 10:30:55 GMT

If you type a number in the brackets it gives you that many paragraphs - it defaults to three

re: windows rt tip - how to recreate a recovery partition

Marco Castro — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 00:30:49 GMT

I,ve done this on my VIVOTAB RT but when I try to reset it tells me some files are missing. I can only restore from the USB stick