Icons that do nothing!

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Hello All

I have XP home edition on a Pentium III. Somewhere along the line I appear to have a corruption, because nearly all the Icons in the Control Panel do absolutely nothing when you try to double click or 'open' them

Another strange thing - if I 'right-click' the open desktop, I am unable to get to 'properties' and thus disable my screen saver etc

Although not critical, it is very annoying - I thought that SP1 would have sorted me out, but it hasn't ... I have restored my system to December 2003 and everything works ok at that point, but obviously I don't want to have to go back that far

Any bright ideas or suggestions to resolve this tiresome problem would be very welcome

Thanks in advance
 
Hello All,

I have XP home edition on a Pentium III. Somewhere along the line I appear to have a corruption, because nearly all the Icons in the Control Panel do absolutely nothing when you try to double click or 'open' them.

Another strange thing - if I 'right-click' the open desktop, I am unable to get to 'properties' and thus disable my screen saver etc.

Although not critical, it is very annoying - I thought that SP1 would have sorted me out, but it hasn't ... I have restored my system to December 2003 and everything works ok at that point, but obviously I don't want to have to go back that far!

Any bright ideas or suggestions to resolve this tiresome problem would be very welcome.

Thanks in advance,
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Does the problem occur in Safe Mode ? If it does not there might be
some other software that is loading during boot that is playing havoc
with the XP environment. Download and run Ad-aware 6 to remove any
spayware, malware etc

Try to do a clean boot. Use MSCONFIG from the RUN box to shut off
needless services and reboot
 
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