"Advanced settings" radio button/checkbox labels

External Since: Apr 26, 2008 Posts: 3

For some reason, in all option dialogs, radio button and checkbox options
have either "-ON" or "-OFF" appended to the label for each option. (Please
see the screenshot here -
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v299/vexred0/settings_on_off.gif.) This
value changes between "-ON" or "-OFF" when the setting is toggled. I'm
running an up-to-date version of Windows XP SP3 on both my desktop PC and my
laptop, and this only appears to be occurring on my laptop. Initially, I
thought this might be an accessibility feature that I had accidentally turned
on, but there doesn't seem to be a corresponding option in the accessibility
settings.

Has anyone come across this before and, if so, is there a way of disabling
it? It's not a major problem, just a little bit annoying! Thanks in advance
to anyone who is able to offer any suggestions!

External Since: Aug 18, 2008 Posts: 109

Narrator!

Checkbox Labels Appended with the Word ON or OFF in Various Dialog Boxes in
Windows XP - The Winhelponline Blog:
http://www.winhelponline.com/blog/checkbox-labels-appended-with-on-or-...-in-dia

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Regards,

Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows Desktop Experience]
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"marmaduke" <marmaduke.RemoveThis@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:CC07E5CD-20EA-4D89-9298-C7D58FCA3296@microsoft.com...
> For some reason, in all option dialogs, radio button and checkbox options
> have either "-ON" or "-OFF" appended to the label for each option. (Please
> see the screenshot here -
> http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v299/vexred0/settings_on_off.gif.) This
> value changes between "-ON" or "-OFF" when the setting is toggled. I'm
> running an up-to-date version of Windows XP SP3 on both my desktop PC and
> my
> laptop, and this only appears to be occurring on my laptop. Initially, I
> thought this might be an accessibility feature that I had accidentally
> turned
> on, but there doesn't seem to be a corresponding option in the
> accessibility
> settings.
>
> Has anyone come across this before and, if so, is there a way of disabling
> it? It's not a major problem, just a little bit annoying! Thanks in
> advance
> to anyone who is able to offer any suggestions!