On Wed, 26 May 2004 05:32:45 -0700, "Amy"
| All of the new icons I create as well as the icons for the
| shortcuts in Administrator Tools have the icon for the DOS
| prompt overlayed on top of it. Any ideas why?
Your icon cache is corrupt. Try increasing the cache size, and purging
it of old and corrupted icons. You can do this with the free
ActivIcons utility from
http://www.simtel.net/product.download.mirrors.php?id=58875
To do this in ActivIcons, go to its "Desktop Controls" screen and
increase the icon cache size to 4096. Next, rebuild the icon cache.
The options for rebuilding the cache are on 2 small round buttons at
the lower/right corner. Shut down any programs running in the
background, then click the round button farthest to the lower/right
corner (your system will reboot, and the icon cache will be cleaned
out).
If you prefer to do the same things manually, you'll first have to run
Regedit. Then navigate down through the tree to the following key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer
Here, you will then need to create a new string value named "Max
Cached Icons" with the value data set to 2048 or 4096. Then save and
exit. Next, reboot into MSDOS, and delete the ShellIconcache file from
there (corrupted icons just get written back into the file if you
delete this manually while Windows is running). Be careful while in
Regedit, since it is possible to make a royal mess of your Registry
(it would be a good idea to have a recent backup before messing with
these settings).
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