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re: Question about 'All of my desktop icons just became corrupted - what do I do?'
Wednesday, June 19, 2002 at 7:42 am
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Posted by Kevin (2 messages posted)

I had a problem like this once and this is how I fixed it. Delete the shelliconcache FILE in the windows directory. Reboot and the icon cache will be rebuilt. There is a registry hack somewhere to increase the size of the cache.

On Tuesday, August 14, 2001 at 7:11 pm, amaralliya e. thenardier wrote:
>hmmm... any other buttons/images do that? could try reloading the graphics card drivers,
>maybe see if there are updated ones available from the manufacturers website. do
>the same for the monitor. could also fiddle with the refresh rate.

Written in response to:: re: Question about 'All of my desktop icons just became corrupted - what do I do?' (amaralliya e. thenardier: Tuesday, August 14, 2001 at 7:11 pm)

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re: Question about 'All of my desktop icons just became corrupted - what do I do?' (Jeff: Tuesday, August 6, 2002 at 4:42 am)

re: Question about 'All of my desktop icons just became corrupted - what do I do?' (sharklive6: Saturday, February 28, 2004 at 3:13 am)

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Question about 'All of my desktop icons just became corrupted - what do I do?' (alan: Tue, Aug 14, 2001, 4:05 pm)

re: Question about 'All of my desktop icons just became corrupted - what do I do?' (amaralliya e. thenardier: Tue, Aug 14, 2001, 4:47 pm)

re: Question about 'All of my desktop icons just became corrupted - what do I do?' (mahdi hasan: Sat, Aug 24, 2002, 9:40 am)

re: Question about 'All of my desktop icons just became corrupted - what do I do?' (alan: Tue, Aug 14, 2001, 6:54 pm)

re: Question about 'All of my desktop icons just became corrupted - what do I do?' (amaralliya e. thenardier: Tue, Aug 14, 2001, 7:11 pm)

re: Question about 'All of my desktop icons just became corrupted - what do I do?' (Pip: Sun, Feb 10, 2002, 2:23 pm)

re: Question about 'All of my desktop icons just became corrupted - what do I do?' (Kevin: Wed, Jun 19, 2002, 7:42 am)

re: Question about 'All of my desktop icons just became corrupted - what do I do?' (Jeff: Tue, Aug 6, 2002, 4:42 am)

re: Question about 'All of my desktop icons just became corrupted - what do I do?' (sharklive6: Sat, Feb 28, 2004, 3:13 am)

re: Question about 'All of my desktop icons just became corrupted - what do I do?' (Patrick Z.: Tue, Jul 13, 2004, 2:21 am)

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