No Singers name display. HELP!!!

[Azkaraoke4]

Hi mtu community, I have a problem that I can't seem to get fixed and I am very frustrated. I just exchanged one of my systems with my kj so I could upgrade it. This kj does not like the singers name display so he somehow made it disappear and not by turning it off. I have the selection checked to have the name display on but there is none. He told me that he just hid it behind the screen that displays the words but nope it's not there. I have tried changing my screen resolution to see if it popped out anywhere but it doesn't. I upgraded from 2.219 to 3.110 and that didn't work, I did the upgrade option and the fresh hoster install option and neither worked. I also tried restoring my computer back as far as it could go which was June 2004 and it still isn't there. Can someone please help me?

I just picked up a show 5 nights a week at the same place and the singers were spoiled by there old kj writing all the singers on a white board. I was so stoked that I was gonna be able to use one of hosters many awesome features to impress these people. And i'll be damned if i'm writing on a white board. I am so close to a full format and restore but don't want to. Theres got to be something! Thanks for the help in advance y'all

[bobcox- with the Lord]

make sure you have a tv hooked up so you can see it out there, if you cant find it by moving your pointer off the screen and trying to drag it back. he might have collasped it to a thin line that you cant see. Bob

[Azkaraoke4]

Yes I was thinking that he may have shrunk it so small that I can't see it. The worst part is I looked all over both screens and pulled and dragged from all edges and corners of both screens and looked for any dots or unusual lines and tried to drag and open and see if I could find it. No luck.
Thanks Bob. Any other idea's? There has got to be a way to completely remove hoster and all of it's components from windows and do a fresh install. I really don't want to format and restore windows.
Thanks

[mindonstrike]

We've had a few folks who either shrunk it down till it disappeared or pushed it off the bottom and it never reappeared

There is a way of going into the registry and resetting Hoster persistance settings. which might fix it. I found step by step instructions when I did it one time.I'll have to look around see if I can find them again.

Sam

[mindonstrike]

After a little digging this is what I found.
BUT FIRST: PLEASE NOTE I am not a computer expert and am leary of offering advice about messing with the registry. Please keep this in mind before making any changes.

This is copied word for word from another thread to fix a different but similiar problem.

Click the Windows Start button, Run option, type in "regedit" and press the Enter key. In the viewer that appears, scroll down to:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER > Software > Micro Technology Unlimited > Hoster > Default

Delete the found Default folder, which holds all your persistence settings. I believe you can rename it to "defaultold" to allow you to restore it later, retaining all your persistence settings.:

I don't recall if I was able to start Hoster after making these changes or if I had to upgrade/reinstall to get the factory default settings. But I do recall EVERYTHING about Hoster had to be reset and resized to get it back to the way I like it.

Hopefully MTUSUPPORT will chime in and opine on whether I've given sound advice or not.

Sam

[George]

When you do a database rebuild what is the path to your KMA files in the SONG SOURCE FOLDER? The reason I ask is if KMA folder is within the Hoster folder, you better think twice about removing the Hoster folder, and should probably open the Hoster folder and manually delete everything except the folder containing the KMA files, or you could find yourself importing everything again.

If the path to the KMA folders looks something like this c:\Program Files\Micro Technology Unlimited\Hoster\Songs........You better watch out.

If it is something like mine, which is c:\Hoster Songlist........it is not in the Hoster folder and will not be affected.

George