[WEB4LIB] Desktop icons

[jfruit at nslsilus.org]

Hi!

There are a couple things you can do.  If you have Micro$of'ts nifty
little utility Tweakui installed, an option under the repair tab (I
think) will allow you to repair the icons. 

There are a couple other ways to deal with this problem.  I found this
following on a usenet group describing how to do it:

"Sounds like you need to refresh your icon cache.I can suggest 2 methods
for rebuilding your icon cache.

"1. Open display properties, go to the Appearance tab, select Icon in the
drop down list, change the size by a few increments, hit apply, resize to
original setting, hit okay.

"2. Another way is to delete the file called ShellIconCache (in WINNT
folder I think) and reboot. ShellIconCache will be rebuilt."

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&frame=right&th=4ff109ec4b10c7e6&seekm=u82v29aU%24GA.274%40cppssbbsa05#link3

Good luck,

John



On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, 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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