re: Question about 'All of my desktop icons just became corrupted - what do I do?' Sunday, January 26, 2003 at 10:56 am Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by sudhagar singh (1 messages posted) hey, i increased the size of the icons from the appearance tool and then reverted back to the same size again and IT WORKED !!! On Friday, September 21, 2001 at 12:14 pm, drew wrote: >I have a question about All >of my desktop icons just became corrupted - what do I do?: > > >When I reboot, all my icons turn into black squares and my mouse freezes. I believe >that's a bona fide "crash." >This occurred after I attempted to adjust my monitor resolution settings. It has >happened before and I fixed problem using boot disk and going through safe mode and >uncluttering my ram. Now when I can't get to safe mode.I'll enter it when highlighted >but I just get a:prompt all over again. Working through the help file I was informed >that command.com, extract.? and ?./?(my ?'s) could not be found. Do I have a corrupted >boot disk. I tried it on two different ones so i tend to think not. I have been unusually >active lately downloading often to desktop lots of info concerning our recent debacle. >I have also since downloaded juno and realplayer. If i could get to safe mode , I >would uninstall realplayer, move new files to a floppy or at least off the desktop, >and uninstall juno all in that order(I have another ISP). > >Thoughts?Suggestions? Written in response to: Question about 'All of my desktop icons just became corrupted - what do I do?' (drew: Friday, September 21, 2001 at 12:14 pm) Responses to this message: re: Question about 'All of my desktop icons just became corrupted - what do I do?' (cazz: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 at 12:49 am) All messages in this thread [show all] Question about 'All of my desktop icons just became corrupted - what do I do?' (drew: Fri, Sep 21, 2001, 12:14 pm) re: Question about 'All of my desktop icons just became corrupted - what do I do?' (amaralliya e. thenardier: Fri, Sep 21, 2001, 3:06 pm) suggestion... (amaralliya e. thenardier: Fri, Sep 21, 2001, 3:11 pm) re: Question about 'All of my desktop icons just became corrupted - what do I do?' (drew: Mon, Sep 24, 2001, 7:55 am) re: Question about 'All of my desktop icons just became corrupted - what do I do?' (Mark: Wed, Nov 28, 2001, 8:18 pm) re: Question about 'All of my desktop icons just became corrupted - what do I do?' (sudhagar singh: Sun, Jan 26, 2003, 10:56 am) re: Question about 'All of my desktop icons just became corrupted - what do I do?' (cazz: Tue, Mar 25, 2003, 12:49 am) re: Question about 'All of my desktop icons just became corrupted - what do I do?' (snarle: Mon, Sep 1, 2003, 6:37 pm) re: Question about 'All of my desktop icons just became corrupted - what do I do?' (GabrielTech: Sat, Oct 2, 2004, 8:27 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 98 Discussion Forum