Repost - Desktop Icons Repainting Themselves

[Ron]

Trying to help my father (through email) find a solution to his
desktop icons repainting themselves on a Windows XP Home system.

3.20GHz Intel Celeron - 2GB of RAM - 80GB HDD 75% full.

This is what we've done so far, and they are still repainting.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q132668

(I had the same problem a while back and changing the Max Cached Icons
value to 4096 corrected my problem, we have his set to 8192)

Changed the icon size from 32 to 34.

Tried Tweak UI.

And the last thing that we tried was running scandisk.

Anyone got any more ideas what the soulation could be????

 

[Malke]

Trying to help my father (through email) find a solution to his
desktop icons repainting themselves on a Windows XP Home system.

3.20GHz Intel Celeron - 2GB of RAM - 80GB HDD 75% full.

This is what we've done so far, and they are still repainting.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q132668

(I had the same problem a while back and changing the Max Cached Icons
value to 4096 corrected my problem, we have his set to 8192)

Changed the icon size from 32 to 34.

Tried Tweak UI.

And the last thing that we tried was running scandisk.

Anyone got any more ideas what the soulation could be????

Since you've apparently tried everything suggested in the original thread,
perhaps having a local computer tech go on-site to look at your father's
computer hands-on is the best course of action. It's possible your father's
computer is infected, has too many programs/processes running in the
background, is having hardware issues, and many other factors that could
cause the symptoms you describe.

If you *are* a computer tech yourself, then if your father has broadband
Internet connection, try connecting remotely to his computer with Team
Viewer to see for yourself instead of trying to troubleshoot this by email.

Malke