[WEB4LIB] Desktop icons

[Daniel Messer]

    Desktop gremlins is right my friend. I have had icons stop working and just
give me the deault icon that Windows uses to ID a file which has no associated
programme, yet double clicking works just fine. But I can go one better than
that. On my computer at home, I'm working on my own personal website. For this,
I'm using FrontPage because, quite frankly, I'm lazy. Now then, I've finished
around 4 HTML files and have saved them as HTML. One icon for one file shows the
correct icon. The rest all show pictures of computer mice. Rebooting hasn't
helped and they have been this way for quite some time. However, the files open
fine in Explorer, Opera, and FrontPage. I've just chalked it up to a nifty
WindowsME undocumented "feature."
    Now keep in mind that we live in times where companies will have long
meetings about programme problems to decide whether they are bugs or
"undocumented features."

Thomas Bennett wrote:

> Does anyone know why desktop icons change on their own?
>
>   My Explorer Icon is a little page with a fancy A in the middle which isn't
> even embedded in the executable file.  My Dreamweaver icon is now my 3Com
> icon but in a circle, the Fireworks icon has turned shades of blue instead
> of the red shades, and the RoamAbout Access Point icon looks like the little
> screen from PowerPoint.  Other icons on the desktop are correct and haven't
> even changed colors.  This had happened on my old Windows 98 machine and now
> on my Windows 2k machine.  Again the changed icons are not the icons that
> are embedded in the executable.
>
> I'll try a reboot and see if they revert back to the correct icons, but if
> you know why this happens I would appreciate the information.  Desktop
> Gremlins, I guess.
>
> Thomas
>
> PS.  My antivirus program and definition files are up to date.
>
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Daniel Messer, Technology Instructor
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