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Desktop icons
All my desktop icons have one of my icons on top of all
the others. If you view my desktop one of my icons that normally appears is still there but it also appears on top of most of the others.When I go to properties the icon is OK but the desktop remains changed? Thanks, Rob Dow |
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Rob,
Try clearing the icon cache. Your problem could be due to your icon cache having either being corrupted or your having more icons than it can currently cache. Using Explorer, unhide hidden files (Tools | Folder Options | View and check "Show hidden files and folders") and look for and delete the file SHELLICONCACHE in your Windows folder. Don't worry, on rebooting it will automatically be re-created. You may also want to increase the number of icons that can be cached by downloading a registry patch IconCacheFix from http://www.aumha.org/reg1.htm and merging it with out registry. An alternative method of repairing your icons is to use TweakUI where you will find the option to "Repair Icons" on the Repair tab. If you don't have TweakUI installed the latest version of TweakUI for Win Me (1.33) can be obtained from http://www.microsoft.com/ntworkstati.../nttweakui.asp Download to a folder with a short name (e.g. C:\Tweak), run to extract components, right click on tweakui.inf and then install, close the help window that comes up to allow install to finish. C:\Tweak can now be deleted and TweakUI accessed via the Control Panel. Just a few words of caution though if you are new to using TweakUI on Win Me. a) Do not change the first icon (My Documents) on the Desktop tab. Doing this causes a number of script errors in Special Folders when using either WebView or Active desktop. b) Do not uncheck "Search Results" on the Desktop tab. Doing this disables the Search in Explorer. c) Do not hide the TweakUI icon on the Control Panel tab. d) Do not uncheck "Show Control Panel on Start Menu" on the IE tab. Doing this will prevent you from accessing the Control Panel including TweakUI. e) Do not uncheck "Shell Enhancements" on the IE tab. This causes quite a few unexpected "problems". -- Mike Maltby MS-MVP [2001-2004] Rob Dow wrote: All my desktop icons have one of my icons on top of all the others. If you view my desktop one of my icons that normally appears is still there but it also appears on top of most of the others.When I go to properties the icon is OK but the desktop remains changed? Thanks, Rob Dow |
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