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re: Icons going weird
Saturday, May 19, 2007 at 3:41 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by dhm
(966 messages posted)
Start > Run then enter SFC.
That will find if any of your product files have been damaged. I had a problem with
my folder display for 6 months and I kept trying to find what it was I had done to
the registry. Then I ran SFC and was told that 4 of the files of Win98 were damaged.
I had always thought that would necessarily crash the computer. But it didn't.
All I ever noticed was that the folders would not default to alphabetic order.
They do now.
Next, install TweakUI:
It will have the files TWEAKUI.CPL and TWEAKUI.HLP. Move these into
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM. Once you do you will see a new item in the Control
Panel. It will be TWEAKUI!.
Pick the Repair tab of TWEAKUI and select from the drop box, "Repair
Icons".
Maybe that will work.
(Trivial technical side note: CPL is an executable extension same as EXE, SCR, BAT,
VBS, etc, etc. That means you can click on it directly w/o starting the Control
Panel. For instance I keep a shortcut to TweakUI in the menu folder where I have
the various registry cleaners and editors as well as it being in the Control Panel.)
On Saturday, May 19, 2007 at 10:58 am, signoftheserpent wrote:
>For some reason i've lost most of the icons on my menus; some have changed (or been
>swapped for others more precisely). I don't know how this has happened but it's
really
>unsettling! I've scanned for viruses (looked like that sort of thing), but i'm clean;
>same goes for spyware. How could this happen? I even reinstalled my video card drivers
>and no difference. The machine works fine (or seems to), but something must be amiss.
>All i've done is install some legitimate and reliable software (particualrly, System
>Mechanic pro 7 trial version, ccleaner, and spyware guard). Has something become
>horribly corrupted? Can anyone help?
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