My windows 11 says it is windows 7 home?

Cattlelyst · Feb 17, 2024

sfc finnished
Windows Resource Protection found corrupt files and successfully repaired them.
For online repairs, details are included in the CBS log file located at
windir\Logs\CBS\CBS.log. For example C:\Windows\Logs\CBS\CBS.log. For offline
repairs, details are included in the log file provided by the /OFFLOGFILE flag.

The system file repair changes will take effect after the next reboot.

Rebooting to see if it fixes

Cattlelyst · Feb 17, 2024

sfc finnished
Windows Resource Protection found corrupt files and successfully repaired them.
For online repairs, details are included in the CBS log file located at
windir\Logs\CBS\CBS.log. For example C:\Windows\Logs\CBS\CBS.log. For offline
repairs, details are included in the log file provided by the /OFFLOGFILE flag.

The system file repair changes will take effect after the next reboot.

Rebooting to see if it fixes

Cattlelyst · Feb 17, 2024

well that did fix it everything shows windows 11 now
now i need to try to get this aero light theme off its stuck on for some reason now

Winuser · Feb 17, 2024

Cattlelyst said:
well that did fix it everything shows windows 11 now
now i need to try to get this aero light theme off its stuck on for some reason now

I'm glad to hear you was able to solve the problem. I was beginning to wonder if you were running a version of Windows that doesn't even exist.

Edwin · Feb 17, 2024

Cattlelyst said:
now i need to try to get this aero light theme off its stuck on for some reason now

I was gonna mention that..., the Close button on your winver window looked suspiciously fat!

Enable the Windows default theme and reboot.

Cattlelyst · Feb 17, 2024

Winuser said:
I'm glad to hear you was able to solve the problem. I was beginning to wonder if you were running a version of Windows that doesn't even exist.

I thought I was too lol

Edwin said:
I was gonna mention that..., the Close button on your winver window looked suspiciously fat!

This is proving to be another can of worms this aero light theme i accidentally put it on and can't take it off now lol tried everything i'll fix it though

zbook · Feb 17, 2024

Please open administrative command prompt and run:

findstr /c:"[SR]" %windir%\Logs\CBS\CBS.log >"%userprofile%\Desktop\sfcdetails.txt"

copy %windir%\logs\cbs\cbs.log "%userprofile%\Desktop\cbs.txt"

Cattlelyst · Feb 17, 2024

zbook said:
Please open administrative command prompt and run:

findstr /c:"[SR]" %windir%\Logs\CBS\CBS.log >"%userprofile%\Desktop\sfcdetails.txt"

copy %windir%\logs\cbs\cbs.log "%userprofile%\Desktop\cbs.txt"

Will that fix the aero light thing now?

Edwin · Feb 17, 2024

Cattlelyst said:
this aero light theme i accidentally put it on and can't take it off now

Been there, done that...
there's a trick or two to deal with that, if I can remember them, I'll point them out...,
but there's no way in hell I'm gonna replicate your issue on my machine!!!

Cattlelyst · Feb 17, 2024

Edwin said:
Been there, done that...
there's a trick or two to deal with that, if I can remember them, I'll point them out...,
but there's no way in hell I'm gonna replicate your issue on my machine!!!

Hahaha don't blame you

zbook · Feb 17, 2024

Cattlelyst said:
Will that fix the aero light thing now?

Those commands may report scannow findings.

Option 3 in this tutorial:

Use System File Checker (SFC) to Repair System Files in Windows 11 Tutorial

This tutorial will show you how to run the System File Checker (SFC) tool to repair missing, corrupted, and modified system files in Windows 10 and Windows 11. System File Checker (SFC) is a tool built into Windows that will check for system file corruption. The SFC /SCANNOW command scans and...

www.elevenforum.com

Cattlelyst · Feb 17, 2024

All sfc did was fix the big issue of win 7
Didn't find anything else even did a second one

zbook · Feb 17, 2024

The windows log files may report what happened.

Edwin · Feb 17, 2024

Cattlelyst said:
this aero light theme i accidentally put it on and can't take it off now

First try loading the default Windows theme, and reboot...

If that fails, you might try the WinaeroTweaker thing, and reboot...

Don't skip any steps!
There's a lot of folks in here throwing suggestions at you, do them step by step, one at a time!

Winuser · Feb 17, 2024

Cattlelyst said:
well that did fix it everything shows windows 11 now
now i need to try to get this aero light theme off its stuck on for some reason now

I found this. I never installed Aero Light Theme so I can't say for sure that this works. How to Enable & Delete Hidden Aero Lite Theme in Windows 11

Cattlelyst · Feb 17, 2024

Edwin said:
First try loading the default Windows theme, and reboot...

If that fails, you might try the WinaeroTweaker thing, and reboot...

Did both of those but going to try one more time and reboot again

SIW2 · Feb 17, 2024

Cattlelyst said:
@Ghot which registry do you suspect it might be i can fix it

I posted it already post#27

My windows 11 says it is windows 7 home?

That was my next course of action is an sfc scan All else fails a reformat once again In all my years I've never ran into a weird problem like these 2 I will keep you all posted hope this last restore works because other than the windows 7 thing my computer was running fine other than things...

www.elevenforum.com

I am not in win11 atm so I wil load a software hive to show you

Cattlelyst · Feb 17, 2024

Nope none of those worked going to try safe mode and delete it there cause it's still in use and I can't delete it

idgat · Feb 17, 2024

Cattlelyst said:
well that did fix it everything shows windows 11 now

Edwin said:
but there's no way in hell I'm gonna replicate your issue on my machine!!!

Yeh. I've followed this thread with curiosity (albeit frustrated at times) but one thing now comes to mind ... what the hell sort of condition is the OPs system in now, with all the tweaks and repairs and diagnostic fixes and etc etc?