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Recently my desktop icons (the ones that only are linked to the
internet) do not work, with the exception of the Internet Explorer icon. If I click on the IE icon first, minimize that then click on i.e. a weater site or banking site icon, it works; just not independently. Does anyone know how to fix this problem? Thank you! |
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"jagjvg" wrote in message ups.com... Recently my desktop icons (the ones that only are linked to the internet) do not work, with the exception of the Internet Explorer icon. If I click on the IE icon first, minimize that then click on i.e. a weater site or banking site icon, it works; just not independently. Does anyone know how to fix this problem? Thank you! see if this works for you.... Without warning and totally unexpectedly, Windows icons may become corrupt and a generic icon will take the place of the original. Windows has supplied a way to repair these corrupted icons. See below for details: Windows 98 stores the information for your desktop icons in a special file called "ShelliconCache." This means that the operating system keeps all the data for all the icons on the desktop in a single file for faster display than if the system would have to search for all the original icon files. ShelliconCache is a hidden file in the C:\Windows folder. To rebuild your icons, you have to delete your ShelliConCache file. Here's how you repair the damage. Unhiding The ShelliconCache File 1 - Open any Windows Explorer Folder view window 2 - Select "Folder Options" from the View menu 3 - Click the View tab 4 - Expand the File And Folders branch of the display 5 - In the Hidden Files branch, check the "Show All Files" option. 6 - Save your changes. Deleting The ShelliconCache File 1 - Click Start/Shutdown 2 - Choose "Restart In MS-DOS mode" 3 - At the command prompt type; del ShelliconCache and press enter 4 - Restart your computer. At reboot, Windows will rebuild all icon files back to their original state. Mthanks to the original author |
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If the previous replies dont fix it, try in IE tools Internet options
Connections, and make sure that nothing has been altered -- - Adaware http://www.lavasoft.de spybot http://www.safer-networking.org AVG free antivirus http://www.grisoft.com Etrust/Vet/CA.online Antivirus scan http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/virusinfo/scan.aspx Super Antispyware http://www.superantispyware.com/ Panda online AntiVirus scan http://www.activescan.com Panda online AntiSpyware Scan http://www.pandasoftware.com/virus_info/spyware/test/ Catalog of removal tools (1) http://www.pandasoftware.com/download/utilities/ Catalog of removal tools (2) http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/n...aspx?CID=40387 Trouble Shooting guide to Windows http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/ Blocking Unwanted Parasites with a Hosts file http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm Cool Web Shredder http://www.trendmicro.com/cwshredder/ links provided as a courtesy, read all instructions on the pages before use Grateful thanks to the authors/webmasters _ "jagjvg" wrote in message ups.com... Recently my desktop icons (the ones that only are linked to the internet) do not work, with the exception of the Internet Explorer icon. If I click on the IE icon first, minimize that then click on i.e. a weater site or banking site icon, it works; just not independently. Does anyone know how to fix this problem? Thank you! |
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On 5 Oct 2006 11:51:07 -0700, "jagjvg" wrote:
Recently my desktop icons (the ones that only are linked to the internet) do not work, with the exception of the Internet Explorer icon. If I click on the IE icon first, minimize that then click on i.e. a weater site or banking site icon, it works; just not independently. Does anyone know how to fix this problem? Thank you! Sounds like IE is being used to connect to the Internet. Maybe check your IE settings. Can you do other things on the Internet without using IE before you load IE? Like Newsgroups or E-mail. Regards, Bill Watt Win98 Computer Help & Other Information http://home.ptd.net/~bwatt/ |
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On Thu, 5 Oct 2006 16:14:32 -0300, "Haggis"
wrote: "jagjvg" wrote in message oups.com... Recently my desktop icons (the ones that only are linked to the internet) do not work, with the exception of the Internet Explorer icon. If I click on the IE icon first, minimize that then click on i.e. a weater site or banking site icon, it works; just not independently. Does anyone know how to fix this problem? Thank you! see if this works for you.... Without warning and totally unexpectedly, Windows icons may become corrupt and a generic icon will take the place of the original. Windows has supplied a way to repair these corrupted icons. See below for details: Windows 98 stores the information for your desktop icons in a special file called "ShelliconCache." This means that the operating system keeps all the data for all the icons on the desktop in a single file for faster display than if the system would have to search for all the original icon files. ShelliconCache is a hidden file in the C:\Windows folder. To rebuild your icons, you have to delete your ShelliConCache file. Here's how you repair the damage. Unhiding The ShelliconCache File 1 - Open any Windows Explorer Folder view window 2 - Select "Folder Options" from the View menu 3 - Click the View tab 4 - Expand the File And Folders branch of the display 5 - In the Hidden Files branch, check the "Show All Files" option. 6 - Save your changes. Deleting The ShelliconCache File 1 - Click Start/Shutdown 2 - Choose "Restart In MS-DOS mode" 3 - At the command prompt type; del ShelliconCache and press enter 4 - Restart your computer. At reboot, Windows will rebuild all icon files back to their original state. Mthanks to the original author Hi Haggis, Actually the ShelliconCache file can be deleted with Explorer. Then Start Shutdown Restart to re-build it. Using Restart to Dos Mode requires EXIT to get back to Windows. Otherwise, depending on the Advanced properties in the Exit To Dos shortcut the system may be locked in Dos. This is because the Autoexec.bat and Config.sys files may be re-named and substituted with others for the session. EXIT restores the original two files. Description of Restarting Computer in MS-DOS Mode http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q138996/ Regards, Bill Watt Win98 Computer Help & Other Information http://home.ptd.net/~bwatt/ |
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If this is truly a ShellIconCache issue, OP should also get the appropriate
reg hack from Aumha.org and install it. Actually, *anyone* using Win98/98SE should install this fix. http://aumha.org/regfiles.php#icons -- Gary S. Terhune MS-MVP Shell/User http://grystmill.com/articles/cleanboot.htm http://grystmill.com/articles/security.htm "Bill Watt" wrote in message ... On Thu, 5 Oct 2006 16:14:32 -0300, "Haggis" wrote: "jagjvg" wrote in message roups.com... Recently my desktop icons (the ones that only are linked to the internet) do not work, with the exception of the Internet Explorer icon. If I click on the IE icon first, minimize that then click on i.e. a weater site or banking site icon, it works; just not independently. Does anyone know how to fix this problem? Thank you! see if this works for you.... Without warning and totally unexpectedly, Windows icons may become corrupt and a generic icon will take the place of the original. Windows has supplied a way to repair these corrupted icons. See below for details: Windows 98 stores the information for your desktop icons in a special file called "ShelliconCache." This means that the operating system keeps all the data for all the icons on the desktop in a single file for faster display than if the system would have to search for all the original icon files. ShelliconCache is a hidden file in the C:\Windows folder. To rebuild your icons, you have to delete your ShelliConCache file. Here's how you repair the damage. Unhiding The ShelliconCache File 1 - Open any Windows Explorer Folder view window 2 - Select "Folder Options" from the View menu 3 - Click the View tab 4 - Expand the File And Folders branch of the display 5 - In the Hidden Files branch, check the "Show All Files" option. 6 - Save your changes. Deleting The ShelliconCache File 1 - Click Start/Shutdown 2 - Choose "Restart In MS-DOS mode" 3 - At the command prompt type; del ShelliconCache and press enter 4 - Restart your computer. At reboot, Windows will rebuild all icon files back to their original state. Mthanks to the original author Hi Haggis, Actually the ShelliconCache file can be deleted with Explorer. Then Start Shutdown Restart to re-build it. Using Restart to Dos Mode requires EXIT to get back to Windows. Otherwise, depending on the Advanced properties in the Exit To Dos shortcut the system may be locked in Dos. This is because the Autoexec.bat and Config.sys files may be re-named and substituted with others for the session. EXIT restores the original two files. Description of Restarting Computer in MS-DOS Mode http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q138996/ Regards, Bill Watt Win98 Computer Help & Other Information http://home.ptd.net/~bwatt/ |
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jagjvg wrote:
Recently my desktop icons (the ones that only are linked to the internet) do not work, with the exception of the Internet Explorer icon. If I click on the IE icon first, minimize that then click on i.e. a weater site or banking site icon, it works; just not independently. Does anyone know how to fix this problem? Thank you! Look in... Start Settings Folder options File types tab Scroll down the list of file types to "Internet shortcut" and click it. In the "File type" details area it should say that it opens with IE. Click the "Edit" button. That will give you a new applet. In that applet, click the action "open" then click "Edit..." You now have a third applet. IE isn't my default browser so I can't tell you what should be in the window for "Application used to perform action:" but this will work... "rundll32.exe shdocvw.dll,OpenURL %l" If, in the "Application used to perform action:" window you have a path to IE, check that path; if not, copy and paste what is there to a text file (so you can get it back if necessary) and copy/paste the above to the window. OK your way out of window #3. In window #2, set "open" as default and OK your way out. -- dadiOH ____________________________ dadiOH's dandies v3.06... ....a help file of info about MP3s, recording from LP/cassette and tips & tricks on this and that. Get it at http://mysite.verizon.net/xico |
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"dadiOH" wrote in message
... | jagjvg wrote: | Recently my desktop icons (the ones that only are linked to the | internet) do not work, with the exception of the Internet Explorer | icon. If I click on the IE icon first, minimize that then click on | i.e. a weater site or banking site icon, it works; just not | independently. | Does anyone know how to fix this problem? | Thank you! | | Look in... | | Start | Settings | Folder options | File types tab | | Scroll down the list of file types to "Internet shortcut" and click | it. In the "File type" details area it should say that it opens with | IE. Mine "Opens with"... RUNDLL32. with "Extension"..... URL | Click the "Edit" button. That will give you a new applet. In that | applet, click the action "open" then click "Edit..." | | You now have a third applet. IE isn't my default browser so I can't | tell you what should be in the window for "Application used to perform | action:" but this will work... | "rundll32.exe shdocvw.dll,OpenURL %l" That's right. That is there w/o the quotes... rundll32.exe shdocvw.dll,OpenURL %l ...., with "Use DDE" unchecked. The "print" Application box contains... rundll32.exe C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\MSHTML.DLL,PrintHTML "%1" ....with "Use DDE" checked, but all the boxes are empty. And the "printto" Application box is... rundll32.exe C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\MSHTML.DLL,PrintHTML "%1" "%2" "%3" "%4" ....with "Use DDE" unchecked. | If, in the "Application used to perform action:" window you have a | path to IE, check that path; That isn't mormal. It SHOULD be the rundll32.exe line you posted above that is there. | if not, copy and paste what is there to a | text file (so you can get it back if necessary) and copy/paste the | above to the window. I would do that, & eventually delete the one that was copied. | OK your way out of window #3. In window #2, set | "open" as default and OK your way out. Yea. Select it, & click the "Set Default" button. "Open" should turn darker. Also, check "Enable Quick View" & "Confirm open after download" on that screen. |
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