Re: LOST DESKTOP AND START MENU ICONS

On Sat, 29 Jul 2006 12:54:10 -0400, "Scotty Silton"
<ssilton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

What finally fixed the problem was going under "Display Properties" then
'Appearance' and then 'Effects...' and enable 'Use large icons' and then
click 'OK'. That restored all the desktop and Start menu icon in Large.
Then you repeat the process and disable the large icons and click okay and
then apply and your good to go. The only bad thing was the order was
scattered now because of my desktop icon settings.

Thanks for your suggestion since that did work, just differently.

Scotty

"georgie" <kestrels@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1154188392.001551.231740@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Scotty wrote:
snip...
What is the problem and what do I need to do to fix this. I'm guessing
that
there is some folder where all these icons are stored. I tried to have
it
refresh the icons and that has no effect.

Thanks,
Scotty

You could try deleting the file IconCache.db
http://www.smartcomputing.com/editorial/article.asp?article=articles/archive/l0806/39l06/39l06.asp

I've also seen a similar problem fixed (but OS was Win ME) by
right-click desktop, choose active desktop, choose large size icons,
reboot, and then go back and choose normal smaller size icons.

georgie


glad you got them back, scottie. i found, installed and use a
freeware piece called 'icon restore' that allows me to save the icon
layout and recall same if needed. works fine on my XP PROsp2 box.

<http://users.rcn.com/taylotr/icon_restore.html>
<http://www.download.com/3000-2347-10163500.html>

73,
rich, n9dko


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