Desktop icons corrupted

[Guest]

Hi,

I use W-XP SP1. My desktop icons become corrupted. All shortcut icons lost
the sqare with the arrow (although a small line is visible where the square
should end). Some of the icons (Word, Outlook,...) are shown as green
squares. Also in the explorer some files (not all) have green-square icons
(regardless of the view and the type of the file).

What is wrong? How to fix this? Thanks!!!

 

[Detlev Dreyer]

I use W-XP SP1. My desktop icons become corrupted. All shortcut icons
lost the sqare with the arrow (although a small line is visible where
the square should end). Some of the icons (Word, Outlook,...) are
shown as green squares. Also in the explorer some files (not all) have
green-square icons (regardless of the view and the type of the file).

Install TweakUI.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx

TweakUI > Repair > Rebuild Icons > Repair now.

You may want to increase the icon cache also. Start > Run: Regedit.
Navigate to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer.

Create the string value "Max Cached Icons" in the right pane and assign
the value "4096". Reboot when done.

 

[Guest]

YES!

Thank you very much.

"Detlev Dreyer" je napisal:

 

[Detlev Dreyer]

YES!

Thank you very much.

You're certainly welcome.

 

[Rojo Habe]

Install TweakUI.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx

TweakUI > Repair > Rebuild Icons > Repair now.

You may want to increase the icon cache also. Start > Run: Regedit.
Navigate to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer.

Create the string value "Max Cached Icons" in the right pane and assign
the value "4096". Reboot when done.

I read this with interest, then followed your link, only to find that
TweakUI only works with US English versions of Windows. Is there a way to
manually acheive this? My Outlook icon is trashed on the Start menu (the
one that windows puts in and labels "E-mail"). If I went to the registry
key you mentioned and temporarily changed the value to zero, would this
effectively flush out the icon cache, or is this a BAD idea?

 

[Rojo Habe]

Aha! Replying to myeslf may be the first sign of madness, but I just found
what I wanted in the Knowledge Base. Changing colour depth refreshes the
icon cache, so all I need to do was change to 16-bit and back again! Many
thanks for putting the idea of a cache in my head so that I knew what to
search for.

 

[Detlev Dreyer]

I read this with interest, then followed your link, only to find that
TweakUI only works with US English versions of Windows. Is there a way
to manually acheive this?

TweakUI is installed on all of my machines under German WinXP and there
is no problem at all.

If I went to the registry key you mentioned and temporarily changed
the value to zero, would this effectively flush out the icon cache,
or is this a BAD idea?

That's no good idea. Note the range of this particular value:
"Icons Randomly Change to Different Icons" (Excerpt)
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/132668/

| The Max Cached Icons value data range is between 100 and 4096.
| The default value is 500.

 

[Kelly]

TweakUI breaks this even worse. Run line 4:
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm

Which resets your shell icon bpp to 16 and your shell icon size to 32.

--
In memory of our dear friend, MVP Alex Nichol: http://www.dts-l.org/

All the Best,
Kelly (MS-MVP)

Troubleshooting Windows XP
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com

 

[Kelly]

Same link and fix applies.

--
In memory of our dear friend, MVP Alex Nichol: http://www.dts-l.org/

All the Best,
Kelly (MS-MVP)

Troubleshooting Windows XP
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com

 

[Kelly]

Most welcome. Glad to hear it and thanks for the feedback. )

--
In memory of our dear friend, MVP Alex Nichol: http://www.dts-l.org/

All the Best,
Kelly (MS-MVP)

Troubleshooting Windows XP
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com

 

[Audioray]

I can't get TweakUI to install on Vista Business any other ideas I am having
the same problem with my Icons. When I try to install Tweak its says it is
not compatible with this operating system.