Lost my icons

[Guest]

Yesterday something really weird happened to the icons on my desktop and left
hand side of the Start menu. All of these icons changed to the white
document-like thing.

I restarted my computer. This restored all but 3 of my desktop icons. I
observed that these 3 shortcuts were also in the most commonly used section
of the Start menu.

After some trial and error I was able to restore the icons on the desktop,
the most commonly used and some 'pinned' shortcuts of the start menu back to
their original icon.

My problem is this: despite unpinning and repinning a shortcut, the shortcut
to Character Map doesn't change, and the icons for Internet Explorer 7 and
Windows Live Mail are still that white document thing.

Why did this happen, and how can I fix it?

Thanks in advance for any help.

 

[Mike Cawood, HND BIT]

Yesterday something really weird happened to the icons on my desktop and
left
hand side of the Start menu. All of these icons changed to the white
document-like thing.

I restarted my computer. This restored all but 3 of my desktop icons. I
observed that these 3 shortcuts were also in the most commonly used
section
of the Start menu.

After some trial and error I was able to restore the icons on the desktop,
the most commonly used and some 'pinned' shortcuts of the start menu back
to
their original icon.

My problem is this: despite unpinning and repinning a shortcut, the
shortcut
to Character Map doesn't change, and the icons for Internet Explorer 7 and
Windows Live Mail are still that white document thing.

Why did this happen, and how can I fix it?

Thanks in advance for any help.

Use System Restore.
Mike

 

[Guest]

I tried using System Restore. I used a restore point of the day before, which
failed. I then tried a restore point about 5 days ago and that too failed.

I also tried scanning my computer with Symantec and Ad-Aware. Neither found
anything.

 

[Mike Cawood, HND BIT]

I tried using System Restore. I used a restore point of the day before,
which
failed. I then tried a restore point about 5 days ago and that too failed.

I also tried scanning my computer with Symantec and Ad-Aware. Neither
found
anything.

OK
Try installing TweakUI XP from Microsoft
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx
You need to have XP SP1 or later for this.
Install it & go to the bottom of the lh column to 'repair' and select
'rebuild icons'.
Mike.

 

[Elmo]

Yesterday something really weird happened to the icons on my desktop and left
hand side of the Start menu. All of these icons changed to the white
document-like thing.

I restarted my computer. This restored all but 3 of my desktop icons. I
observed that these 3 shortcuts were also in the most commonly used section
of the Start menu.

After some trial and error I was able to restore the icons on the desktop,
the most commonly used and some 'pinned' shortcuts of the start menu back to
their original icon.

My problem is this: despite unpinning and repinning a shortcut, the shortcut
to Character Map doesn't change, and the icons for Internet Explorer 7 and
Windows Live Mail are still that white document thing.

Why did this happen, and how can I fix it?

Thanks in advance for any help.

Line 121. Increase Icon Cache
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm

 

[Guest]

That seemed to do it. Thank you very much.

OK
Try installing TweakUI XP from Microsoft
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx
You need to have XP SP1 or later for this.
Install it & go to the bottom of the lh column to 'repair' and select
'rebuild icons'.
Mike.