icons picture does not show suddenly

[Johnny Chow]

Hi,
My desktop icons usually show picture and yesterday, they all become blank
icons. However, if I right click the shortcut property of icon then it show
picture and I also click "Change Icon" to verify the picture. Once I hit
OK, it still show blank picture icon. I check my trendmico and no virus and
spyware found. I will be appreciated your feedback and help.

Thank you in advance,

Johnny Chow

 

[Unk]

Hi,
My desktop icons usually show picture and yesterday, they all become blank
icons. However, if I right click the shortcut property of icon then it show
picture and I also click "Change Icon" to verify the picture. Once I hit
OK, it still show blank picture icon. I check my trendmico and no virus and
spyware found. I will be appreciated your feedback and help.

Thank you in advance,

Johnny Chow

If you have TweakUI installed, it has a "Repair Icon" function.

Microsoft TweakUI specifically for Windows XP
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/downloads/powertoys.asp
http://download.microsoft.com/download/whistler/Install/2/WXP/EN-US/TweakUiPowertoySetup.exe

 

[alanglloyd]

I have a similar problem - all desktop icons suddenly vanished at
boot-up. If I run a small program which finds the desktop window handle
and calls ShowWindow(hndDesktopWnd, SW_SHOW); then they all return.

Icon problems in Win98 could be rectified by deleting the ShIconCache
file which caused windows to re-constitute the cache. Is there a
similar cache file to delete in Win XP.

Alan Lloyd

 

[Johnny Chow]

Hi,
I reboot computer a couple of time and icons are back now. Don't know the
issue. What is ShowWindow? Is it a file or registrykey?

Thanks,

Johnny Chow

 

[alanglloyd]

What is ShowWindow? Is it a file or registrykey?

It is a windows API function. Callable from many windows programming
languages - Delphi, VB, C etc.

Alan Lloyd