Friday, June 05, 2009

How to not have Log Off in the start menu AND have a nice shutdown dialog? Help Please

While setting up my windows XP machine for my Ham Radio station I suffered through the endless reboots and windows updates, then prompts and reboots etc. I even managed to configure it a bit like I wanted. One nagging thing remains and hopefully someone reading this can help.

I turned off the LogOff button since it always confused me using these steps
http://www.liutilities.com/products/registrybooster/tweaklibrary/tweaks/11022/

I also turned off requiring a password to login by following these steps:
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000536.htm

but now when I select shutdown instead of seeing this nice dialog like this:
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_VBEK0aoUfHg/SIwD6C06b0I/AAAAAAAAAUs/VkHTq2cSmNc/s320/shutdown_dialog_box_xp_84productions_blogspot_com.jpg

I see an awful one like this:
http://www.hotlinkfiles.com/files/1068277_nrscd/ShutdownDialogXP.jpg

Any idea how to get the old one back?

Many thanks!

Monday, June 01, 2009

I have a Ham radio blog

I've not blogged about it here, even though I guess it is of a technical nature, but I've blogged a bit about it on my personal blog. There hasn't been much, but it seems to be growing a lot and I wanted to document it in the hopes that it might help or encourage someone else. That said, I realize what a dry subject it is and I don't want to blog about it too much here in the fear that I might cause someone to unsubscribe!

So if you want to read about my Radio Ham Geekery let me know and I'll let you know the URL.

The short summary is that I got my Technician license, got a VHF handheld, then got my General license and built a 1W transceiver from a kit and I'm playing with that right now. I've become much more interested in this than I ever imagined I might be.