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Please could someone enlighten me as to why the background to my shutdown dialog box now has a black bar behind the words &quot;windows is shutting down...&quot; &nbsp;but my other xp computers which are also updated regularly do not? I am just worried that this is some sign of malware that I have never heard of. Windows seems otherwise to be behaving normally. I am running XP Home &nbsp;(service pack 3). many thanks.
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Please could someone enlighten me as to why the background to my shutdown dialog box now has a black bar behind the words "windows is shutting down..."  but my other xp computers which are also updated regularly do not? I am just worried that this is some sign of malware that I have never heard of. Windows seems otherwise to be behaving normally. I am running XP Home  (service pack 3). many thanks.

Why is there a black background on my windows xp shutdown dialog box?

Microsoft Windows XP is the sixth release of the NT series of operating systems, and was the first to be marketed in a variety of editions: XP Home and XP Professional, designed for business and power users. The advanced features in XP Professional are generally disabled in Home Edition, but are there and can be activated. There were two 64-bit editions, an embedded edition and a tablet edition.

Windows XP

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