31-12-2003 20:51									#1
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Does anyone here have any suggestions on why these desktop icons are all screwed up?

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	31-12-2003 20:54									#2
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1) Reboot
2) Scan for viruses

	31-12-2003 21:06									#3
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Already done that, and installed all critical updates for windows.

	31-12-2003 21:21									#4
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Give some history,

when did it first occur? Did you install any new software hardware etc.?

	31-12-2003 21:27									#5
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Just happened today. No new installs. It's one of my user's computers. I can't find anything in Microsoft's knowledge base that is any help, so I thought I'd try here...

	31-12-2003 21:35									#6
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Ive never seen that happen before. is the computer Y2K compliant....

	31-12-2003 21:48									#7
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Try this:

Go to your desktop properties (right-click) and change the desktop icon size to something other than it is now (in the Appearance tab). Apply the changes and change it back again right after.

That should refresh your icons, and may fix the problem. I've never seen my icons quite as ****ed up as that though.

Edit: This is exactly what TweakUI does for its icon refresh function (in Win98 anyway) so you could use that too.

Last edited by Mercator on 31-12-2003 at 21:57

	31-12-2003 21:52									#8
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Aside from basic maintenance checks and defragging, do what Mercator suggested.

	31-12-2003 21:54									#9
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Cease powering you computer with LSD.

	31-12-2003 22:05									#10
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Tried all that guys, but still no joy.

	31-12-2003 22:21									#11
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http://techies.co.za/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=2826

found somebody else that had a similar problem (link above) .. seems to have been a driver prob .. not sure how it could just happen though. most odd

	31-12-2003 22:29									#12
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Have you tried deleting the hidden ShellIconCache file (possibly in safe mode)? Or changing your monitor resolution back and forth?

	31-12-2003 22:37									#13
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quote: Originally posted by The Viceroy http://techies.co.za/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=2826 found somebody else that had a similar problem (link above) .. seems to have been a driver prob .. not sure how it could just happen though. most odd

That looks promising. I'll try re-installing all the drivers and I'll let you know if it works.

	31-12-2003 22:38									#14
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quote: Originally posted by Mercator Have you tried deleting the hidden ShellIconCache file (possibly in safe mode)? Or changing your monitor resolution back and forth?

I've tried changing the monitor resolution, but that didn't help. I might try your other suggestion if reloading the drivers doesn't help.

	01-01-2004 01:28									#15
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Well, I finally figured it out...yaaay!

I reinstalled the display drivers and the chipset drivers, but that didn't help so I decided to do some more messing around with the settings. On the effects tab in the display properties dialog box there is an option "Show icons using all possible colors". I unchecked it and the icons went back to normal (with less colors of course), so I checked it again and the colors came back and the icons stayed normal.