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2 days ago my icons on the computer turned into white boxes. they stii eork
when i click on them. what would make them do that. foe example my internet
explore was an " e " now it is a white box that say internet explorer
underneath it. this happened to quite a few of my folders. can you please
help me
thank you
carl
 
Bigdog,

1) After adding a Favorite from IE, if you don't use a personally saved icon
for that Favorite, it uses the site's favicon. If you then clear your
''Temporary Internet Files'. All these icons will disappear.

2) If you do use personal icons and you move this folder to another
location, all your icons that use this folder will disappear & revert to the
icon you describe.

Drew
 
To refresh the icons in the system change the size of icons (subtract 1 from the existing size) in Start - Control Panel - Display - Appearance - Advanced, select Icon, click Ok then Apply then change the size back. This rebuilds the cache in memory. You may need to also delete the icon cache on disk as windows doesn't write to it unless it thinks it needs to (at shutdown). So it may reload the faulty icon cache. This files is at

%userprofile%\Local Settings\Application Data\IconCache.db

but is hidden. Paste this into Start Run to find it (if you have hidden files set to show).

explorer /n,/select,"C:\Documents and Settings\David Candy\Local Settings\Application Data\IconCache.db"

Paste this into Start Run to delete it.

cmd /k del /ah "%userprofile%\Local Settings\Application Data\IconCache.db"
 
If you have particular icons you want to keep you can redownload the favicon into the cache by appending /favicon.ico to the site.

EG

www.google.com/favicon.ico

A batch file

Start "" "www.google.com/favicon.ico"
....
....
....
Start "" "www.smh.com.au/favicon.ico"

Then next time the icon cache gets refreshed (stop the shell, cmd /k del /ah "%userprofile%\Local Settings\Application Data\IconCache.db" and restart the shell) the favicons will be back.
..
The names have to match. If unsure where it wants it favicon to come from edit the shortcut in Notepad and look for

IconFile=http://www.google.com.au/favicon.ico
 
Drew said:
Bigdog,

1) After adding a Favorite from IE, if you don't use a personally
saved icon for that Favorite, it uses the site's favicon. If you then
clear your ''Temporary Internet Files'. All these icons will
disappear.
2) If you do use personal icons and you move this folder to another
location, all your icons that use this folder will disappear & revert
to the icon you describe.

Drew
Click to expand...

I use a free program called Layout. Here's some info below from its text
file. When installed you right click My Computer icon and choose Save
Layout. If it gets messed up you right click My Computer and choose Restore
Layout. I've use it for several years with no problems. Here's a URL for
it. Click on the "Here it is" it wiill offer to download layout.zip.

LAYOUT INSTRUCTIONS
-------------------

You HAVE to install this if you hate your Desktop icons being
rearranged without your permission!

(1) Unzip the file to a temp folder.
(2) Put "layout.dll" in your C:\Windows\System folder.
(3) Double-click the cube "layout.reg" icon and select Yes.

Now, whenever you wish to save/restore the position of all Desktop
icons, just right-click "My Computer" and select the menu option.

Cool, eh? :)
 
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