I have a question about All of my desktop icons just became corrupted - what do I do?:

I've tried all the fixes listed here but they haven't worked. All my desktop icons remain a purple/pink colour, as well as the icons on the start menu. However the small icons are fine. Can anyone help?

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Try reinstalling your video display drivers by removing in Device Mgr. and rebooting....choose have disk and point the location of the correct drivers. CJ


On Sunday, March 31, 2002 at 1:45 pm, Andy wrote:
>I have a question about All
>of my desktop icons just became corrupted - what do I do?:

>
>I've tried all the fixes listed here but they haven't worked. All my desktop icons
>remain a purple/pink colour, as well as the icons on the start menu. However the
>small icons are fine. Can anyone help?

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I recently had this problem on several new computers, although they have Win98. I went to Control Panel/Display/Effects and de-selected 'show icons using all possible colors'. I applied this setting, then went back and selected the 'show all possible colours' setting again. Problem seems to have disappeared.


On Sunday, March 31, 2002 at 1:45 pm, Andy wrote:
>I have a question about All
>of my desktop icons just became corrupted - what do I do?:

>
>I've tried all the fixes listed here but they haven't worked. All my desktop icons
>remain a purple/pink colour, as well as the icons on the start menu. However the
>small icons are fine. Can anyone help?

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serarch c:\ for "iconcache" delete shelliconcache and then reboot


On Thursday, June 13, 2002 at 4:02 am, Jan wrote:
>I recently had this problem on several new computers, although they have Win98.
>I went to Control Panel/Display/Effects and de-selected 'show icons using all possible
>colors'. I applied this setting, then went back and selected the 'show all possible
>colours' setting again. Problem seems to have disappeared.
>
>

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This is what worked for me: In settings, select 256 colors and 640x480 resolution. Click OK. Accept the settings. Go back to properties. Click OFF the "show icons using all possible colors". Click OK and get out of there. Go back to properties. Increase resolution and colors to wanted level. Click OK to apply changes. Then click ON "show icons using all possible colors." It worked for me. Hope it works for all of you.

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The above solution worked fine for me, Thanks


On Wednesday, November 27, 2002 at 8:44 am, slick wrote:
>serarch c:\ for "iconcache" delete shelliconcache and then reboot
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I can't believe this. I looked everywhere for a solution to my problem and this one actually worked. Thank you so much.


On Tuesday, April 1, 2003 at 3:16 pm, Dave wrote:
>This is what worked for me:
>
>In settings, select 256 colors and 640x480 resolution. Click OK. Accept the settings.
>
>Go back to properties. Click OFF the "show icons using all possible colors". Click
>OK and get out of there.
>
>Go back to properties. Increase resolution and colors to wanted level. Click OK
>to apply changes.
>
>Then click ON "show icons using all possible colors."
>
>It worked for me. Hope it works for all of you.

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wow, Thanks so much, I had the same problem here in windows ME, spent a half hour trying systems restore then got here in a google search and cleared it up in less than a minute, thanks again :)


On Wednesday, November 27, 2002 at 8:44 am, slick wrote:
>serarch c:\ for "iconcache" delete shelliconcache and then reboot
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>

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I had the same problem here in windows 2000, Thanks a lot it has solve my problem also.


On Tuesday, July 8, 2003 at 10:26 pm, Roy Benner wrote:
>wow, Thanks so much, I had the same problem here in windows ME, spent a half hour
>trying systems restore then got here in a google search and cleared it up in less
>than a minute, thanks again :)
>
>

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