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icons no longer match up....
Well, i could have said the icons are messed up, but
someone else has used that tag line. :-) I did attempt the solution suggested in that thread, but it didn't work. In more detail: all the icons in my start bar and the icons that are dusplayed when ever I'm in a program and I open something...the window that the files are displayed in all show messed up icons. For example, under the task bar, instead of the regular Microsoft Office icons, I have a folder next to publisher instead of a p, a treasure chest next to Word instead of a w. When I try and open a html page to edit in my editor, all the html pages, intead of having a blue e (for internet explorer) have the little sound icons. I keep my anti virus updated, and I ran it...I defragged my computer, ran disk doctor and scan disk. Any ideas? Please? Cindy |
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icons no longer match up....
Your problem is probably 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 Computer) 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 Cindy wrote: Well, i could have said the icons are messed up, but someone else has used that tag line. :-) I did attempt the solution suggested in that thread, but it didn't work. In more detail: all the icons in my start bar and the icons that are dusplayed when ever I'm in a program and I open something...the window that the files are displayed in all show messed up icons. For example, under the task bar, instead of the regular Microsoft Office icons, I have a folder next to publisher instead of a p, a treasure chest next to Word instead of a w. When I try and open a html page to edit in my editor, all the html pages, intead of having a blue e (for internet explorer) have the little sound icons. I keep my anti virus updated, and I ran it...I defragged my computer, ran disk doctor and scan disk. Any ideas? Please? Cindy |
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icons no longer match up....
Hello!
Tried deleting the Shellchatch, but that didn't fix it...I'm going to download the first thing you suggested, and try that...I'm not sure about Tweak, because I like to change my icons...we'll see how desperate I get, lol. :-) But, this letter is really to thank you so much for your wonderful response. Thank you a million times! Cindy |
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