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The update to 4.0.3 solved all our "unknown" problems, but our Public Ministry (carts) is still left unpopulated, Several publishers have started resigning up for the various days. Glad all of the rest works.

Windows allows you to 'right-click' on an icon and the selection box will include a choice to "change the icon". Sometimes it is in the box toward the bottom and sometimes you have to choose "customize" at the top right side and then select "change the icon". Either way, once chosen the program gives you pre-selected choices. At he top of the selection box is 'browse'. It will try to find other icons. I put all of my choices in a folder on my desktop labeled "Icons". Go to that location (wherever you put the old icon and choose it. Then say OK and then select 'apply' and it should change. In the old days it had to be a file with an ".ico" file type. I have seen a few work with a ".png' file expression. The Icon I use is below. wtl icon.ico

Since I changed all the logos, it is hard for me to go back and double-check...🤷‍♂️

I have four Windows 11 devices. I updated 2 of them with a "manual update" downloaded from JW.ORG. When these updated they provided the new logo, update number 2602 and the build number 14074. The other 2 devices were updated when the app said it was available. These devices provided the new logo, update number 2602 and build number 13445. I customized all of them by changing the icon back to the old version. I still don't know why the build numbers are different and I guess it doesn't matter...❓

I am sure that is exactly true. The 26 is the year and the 02 represents the 2nd update. Originally we might get an update every month to load the new publications (WTs and KMs). In those days it incremented upward one number each update. What I thought was unusual was the differences in the "build" numbers. When or why they change is not important but the fact that two identical updates ended up with different numbers surprised me. Not important, all is good.

I noticed on my laptop and the same on your picture above...the "Build #" stayed the same as the previous update (13445) while the new install shows 14074. Strange.

OK...I started experimenting with these 'updates'. I have four different Windows 11 devices. I have a standard desktop computer in a mini-tower case. I have a mini Dell desktop w/DVD player. I have a micro Dell desktop used with my TV and a Surface Laptop. I have been using the first two for this experiment. I installed the EXE file from JW.ORG (new installation) on the mini Dell. I downloaded it and installed it a week ago. It installed and worked fine. It gave me the new logo. When looking on <help><about> it showed the installation as Version 19 Build 14074 update 2601. It did not have the July Watchtower. Today, I went to computer #1 (above) and downloaded the Update Package (not the new install). I asked the Watchtower Library to manually install the update package from the download file. It found the file and installed it. When it was done, I noticed that it kept my text-size selections and my old WTL icon. I checked the installation in <help><about> and it said...Version 19 Build 13445 Update 2602. Why did it keep the old 'build number'? It has the July Watchtower in it. So I went over to the #2 computer mentioned before (from last weeks download). I downloaded a new EXE file (new installation). It installed correctly by totally erasing the existing WTL, then with a little coaxing installed in its place. It worked OK but changed all my text settings to the small default values. I checked <help><about> again and it showed...Version 19 Build 13445 Update 2602. It had the July Watchtower. Then I used this same computer to download the WTL Update Package and manually overwrote the existing Watchtower Library. It downloaded fine, the WTL found it and manually installed it and it works OK. I check the numbers again and it showed...Version 19 Build 14074 Update 2062. And it had the July Watchtower in it. Since it was updating a new install, it kept the new icon (for now). I have a copy of the old icon (logo) and am going back over to that device and change it back. There you go...a short story changed into a novel. Lesson learned? Next time I decide to do one of these download/installations, I am going to use the Manual Update (lyu_E.updatepkg), not a New Installation (ly_E.exe). It saves my text changes and icon...♥️

I copied the original WTL library icon. When it was replaced by the update/upgrade, I just used Windows property manager to allow me to change the icon back to the original one. wtl icon.ico

Does that make me a "trend-setter"?...😎

I am sure there will always be those who deliberately refuse to register. And once registered there will be many who forget to update the SSS about address changes within 10 days. But the government figures the number will go up and the cost of handling the personal registration paperwork will go down. When Armageddon comes, it will simply go away...🧡

The recording seems to have been done from the audience. Someone stopped a few seconds early. However, I know how the song ends...🧡

That is most likely true but as I recall, about 40 states already "automatically register" males based on driver's licenses, student loans and other government applications. This current update will just put ALL people on the roles of the SSS.

That may be the modern feeling but I still remember our brothers in Biafra. That Nigerian conflict cost 500,000 military casualties and over 1,000,000 starved to death in 2 1/2 years. By personal reports, both sides of that conflict resorted to forced "draft" or conscription of military personnel.

It is true that the USA does not have an active call-out for registered selectees to report for military duty at the present time. However, the fact that they are not acting on the possibility, does not change the law that makes it possible. The term "draft" is generally applied to the Selective Service System and was sone that way when there was an active requirement to serve. The US government still calls it "the draft". See the US gov't website below (it says "the draft").

I was a teenager of the 1960s. We had the draft (not just the registration). First you registered, then there was a conference (if you were applying for an exemption). then there was a physical and eventually there was an actual induction into the armed services (or jail). On the original form, when first filed, you needed to list all of your previous addresses. They gave you a 4" blank with 6-8 lines. They said if you needed more space add an additional page. In my case it was "pages". By my 18th birthday I had lived 26 places. The thing most of us don't remember, is there were only minimal electronics and digital devices. The papers were hand-typed on a typewriter. Copies were made by using carbon paper (but wouldn't include the writing on the original form). Phone calls were made on landlines with no recording. Information was exchanged at the speed of surface mail. Meetings were in person (in my case 250 miles away). So the simple act of turning 18 was a bureaucratic ordeal as well as a spiritual one. It took me from 1965 to 1971 to get them to recognize me as a minister. It lasted a little over a year and then the Vietnam War ended.