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re: Question about 'All of my desktop icons just became corrupted - what do I do?'
Sunday, January 26, 2003 at 10:56 am
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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?
:


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>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)
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