I used sysmetrix to find it. Its the only way I know of. If you have sysmetrix call up any skin, open configuration window, go to textual information and scroll down to OS build. Click on it and it will show up on the skin. Helluva way to do it but ...

mine is the same, again, no text.

No, I got it directly from Microsoft as a download.

ditto here, but I didn't see an option to display "search files", where is this located?

Okay, here's this. When I did the uninstall of Windowblinds through Impulse it updated itself automatically. After the reboot and reinstall then another reboot I still have no text there. That may rule out windowblinds and Impulse.

I have the text while running plain Aero, so I`m sure that it`s not related to WB. Most likely your reboot after the WB update also activated a Microsoft Update that had been downloaded before.

I had no pending updates from Microsoft. I do not know which of the 4 updates through Impulse prompted it and I don't know if doing a System Restore and installing the 4 updates in Impulse seperately with reboot between would identify waht prompted the text to appear. I could do it for reasons of helping others but to me it isn't that big of a deal, just curious to know why it suddenly appeared after a year and a half of it never being there. It definately was not a Windows update that brought it on. Of that, I am positive.

From where I'm sitting it would appear to be specific to Aero. At least on my machine it is. Those skins that don't have Aero don't have the text.

I had it prior to downloading SP1

You do have Aero enabled, Greg. Aero is the default Vista and Win7 UI. When we say enable Aero, we mean unload WB which gives you bare bones Aero.

@Uvah Aero Colors and Aero clay are not WB skins.....they are Aero with texture and color applied. Aero Frost IS though.......and I get the text on the searchbox no matter what skin is applied (and of course with none applied)

I will say it again.......This is not connected to Windowblinds (which is why I put this thread in the Windows 7 section)

This is really weird and I get it with everything even Venture. Started somewhere around the date of this thread so  don't know if it was a WB or windows update but it was before I installed SP1. I keep checking this thread looking for a post that someone has figured it out but no luck yet and have tried all I know how to do. Actually I was hoping that one of the great Stardock Tecs would have been looking around with this problem and had an answer that is was a Microsoft thing or their updater thing even if they  don't or just can't have a fix would be nice to know at least what caused it.

That's the whole thing. Some of us have it on all skins, some of us don't. Its definitely on Aero skins though and since aero is microstuff and since some had it before SP1 then probably one of the updates prior to SP1 and nothing to do with StarDock e.g. Windowblinds. Maybe the only way to be rid of it or at least find the cause would be to uninstall the updates one by one and see.

I can't say for sure what triggered mine but I do know that it happened within the last week and I have not even opened impulse for about a month. That makes me think it happened after a Microsoft update because I recently installed new updates. I am running 7600 build 64bit and I have not installed service pack 1 yet.