Strange display of check boxes and radio buttons on W7 with old Borland Builder app

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Dear All
I hope somebody can help me. I have an old W32 c++ Borland Builder application installed at customer pc. Everything was fine until today, but from now on checkboxes and radio buttons are displayed very strange.

I tried to change resolution, switch off Areo, ... nothing happened.
Also with google I do not find anything.

I hope somebody here does know the reason and how to solve it.

Thank you very much in advance.

[EDIT] Solution found[EDIT]The problem was not related to Borland c++ Builder.

This screenshot does show the strange checkboxes on the left side and the corrected on the right after running "sfc /scannow" from console
https://skydrive.live.com/embed?cid=40C3EA4A55021F96&resid=40C3EA4A55021F96%21108&authkey=AB2VIdm0GPT1-CY[^]

I found the solution here:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windows/en-US/074b908b-106d-46c9-ae68-061ad6d577b6/wrong-symbols-for-checkbox-radio-button-etc-in-windows-7-professional-x64-sp1?forum=w7itproui[^]

Posted 7-Jan-14 6:56am

idle63

Updated 8-Jan-14 1:13am

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Philippe Mori 7-Jan-14 13:37pm

Does it works on other computers? What has changed on that computer between the time it works and now? Do you have any capture? Have you tried to reinstall thye software or the OS. Maybe something has been corrupted on that computer.

[no name] 7-Jan-14 14:05pm

Thank you for your comments.

It works fine on other computers (even on my W7 system). And according to customer "of course" nothing has changed...
OS I don't like to reinstall at this moment. I try to delete the thumbnail cache as soon as I can connect again, but I think it will not help.

Corrupted: I don't think. Word and Excel show check boxes fine.

Philippe Mori 7-Jan-14 14:23pm

Do you still have the compiler. If so, you might try to create a simple application to see if the problem exist for any Borland application. The appearance depend on many thing like if system controls are used or is it custom controls. Office might not be a good reference as they sometime uses their own stuff.

[no name] 7-Jan-14 14:51pm

The strange thing is: Before two days everything was ok. From today _all_ borland builder applications have the same problem with check boxes and radio buttons.
Thx again.

[no name] 8-Jan-14 7:04am

sfc /scannow was the solution. Please see my modified question with the answer.
Thanks for your help

Ron Beyer 7-Jan-14 15:09pm

Has the Dpi setting changed on the system? This is in the Control Panel>Display applet, where it can be set to "Smaller, Medium, or Larger". This can have an effect on some items, perhaps those checkboxes/radio buttons get a size from the system?

Can you elaborate on what "looks strange" means?

[no name] 7-Jan-14 15:26pm

Thx for your comment.
I checked all the dpi settings without any improvement.

Looks strange: I will try to get a screen shot. For the moment: It looks like a blob similar to an oil splatter (sorry english is not my native lng, therefore maybe not a good description)

[no name] 8-Jan-14 7:04am

sfc /scannow was the solution. Please see my modified question with the answer.
Thanks for your help

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KarstenK · Accepted Answer · 2014-01-08T02:33:00

Solution 1

nice that you also found the solution ;-)

Posted 8-Jan-14 2:33am

KarstenK

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[no name] 8-Jan-14 12:53pm

I assume also means you found it also ? So I will accept your comment ;)