loads of icons at boot up

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nitrohead

help please, when i boot up my comp it all goes well until the desktop
appears. At this point all the icons that sholud be there are plus many
others like fonts etc, i am running win xp sp2( just upgraded to that thanks
to a virus) and i have also downloaded a trial version of ms office 2003, any
ideas anyone, they would be much apprieciated.
 
Dear Nitro:
I'm so glad to see your post, thought I was losing my mind..I came home from
work, and the wife says, "the computers fried...again". Seems our
grand-daughter tried to load some free "Pizza Hut" game on the computer today
then the icons on our desktop all had "babies", the entire desktop is totally
covered with duplicate icons with increasing numbers, highest I found was
(23). I did the Windows Live OneCare virus scan (zip) and the Windows
Defender adware scan (nada), then the Spybot scan (just for backup) and found
that something had turned off my firewall (twice), so I fixed that, but when
tried to delete the iconsl, I got nowhere fast. The upper left hand corner
has a group of icons that if you try to drag and drop the top icon, it
creates a new one, my wife says that when it was happening, the upper left
corner group was actually spinning clockwise while spitting out new icons, so
I'm thinking its a virus or something weird. Anyone got any ideas?
 
Have you tried opening Windows Explorer and looking in the Desktop Folder?
It will be the first icon in the left panel.
Click on that and see what is in that folder.

That folder is a link to:

C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Desktop

AND

C:\Documents and Settings\[YOUR USERNAME]\Desktop

See what is in there and if you can delete them by Select All, Delete.
 
Hi NewScience,

Yep you did the job they were all in owners, thankyou for you help.
Have you tried opening Windows Explorer and looking in the Desktop Folder?
It will be the first icon in the left panel.
Click on that and see what is in that folder.

That folder is a link to:

C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Desktop

AND

C:\Documents and Settings\[YOUR USERNAME]\Desktop

See what is in there and if you can delete them by Select All, Delete.
Dear Nitro:
I'm so glad to see your post, thought I was losing my mind..I came home
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Hi rbarn0037,

Thanks for trying to help me, i had just done a full system recovery because
i had a virus that i couldn't get rid of and have just painstakingly restored
my comp to the standard that i had it running at before.
 
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